Alma NS Gunshow (added lots of pics!)

Intersting to see what looks to be a decent M1908 Brazilian (maybe one of the unissued ones?) and a nice Verguero on the same rack. Loks of early British percussion and flint arms as well - guess the war of 1812 anniversary has made them "de rigueur" again.

Nice late-pattern Brunswick.
 
cainesy said:
Nice pics!! If I was there and the bore was good on that Polish M44, I would have swept her up awfully fast, for 300 it seems like a pretty good deal. There never seems to be any gunshows where I'm located, I guess things will probably change with time. Cheers.
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Want his number? Pm me if you do...he may still have it. It looked as new to me. I think $300 is what those go for, and there are plenty around it seems, especially just lately.

Adrian
 
Great pics AdrianM :) I am glad to see that there are still some places that are not afraid of firearms ( Alma High School in Pictou County, NS ) You would never see a gun show in a high school around where I live :(

Cheers
Joe
 
Pictures

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One thing I would like Members here to consider when taking pictures of guns and tables at Gun Shows.

You should ALWAYS ask for permission, FIRST.

Most people will gladly accommodate you, but some are not really in favor of it. Unfortunately, in today's society, everyone is not an honest, upstanding citizen with the same morals and virtues of most of us.

There are people who scan the Internet Forums, Facebook, and other places looking for information that they can use. Showing a person along with their gun collection just tells these people what is available at a certain location.

And how many of those Facebook posts do you see where someone proudly states that they are headed to Disneyland or some other vacation spot before they actually go. Is it any wonder that they come home to a house that has half their possessions missing?

Also, you might not realize it at the time, but objects in the background are shown too. Sort of like the guy in Saskatchewan who shot a Cougar last year. He posted some nice pictures on the Internet of his Cougar on the tailgate of his truck and him posing with it. Unfortunately, for him, the licence plate was quite readable, and the Game Wardens had no trouble finding him.

So, Guys, it is only common courtesy to ask first. I take a lot of photographs, and have 2 or 3 each month published in local papers, and I have found that if you ask, you are usually given permission. If someone objects, then respect their wishes.
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Quite right there Buffdog. At each table, I asked permission before taking the camera out. Not one person refused me. I think a lot were happily surprised that I wanted pics of their inventory. It opened the door for a lot of great conversations too!

Adrian
 
Thanks for your trouble. It was interesting to see those. What's the odd looking bolt gun on the top in your first photo of post #13?
 
Wow, people out there let you take pics?!! My buddy (in his sixties) snapped a pic of some enfields at the Ancaster show last year and a bunch of people around him went ape$hit on him. Thanks for the photos. Nice to see what's out there.
 
purple said:
There was a recent thread about a rural gunshow in Ontario where the various respondents went on at some length about high prices, and at greater length about the poor personal hygiene (bad breath and pooty BO) habits practiced by some of the old fudd vendors.:)
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It was not the vendors that smelled bad, it was the buyers. The prices may be through the roof in Ontario but at least the vendors won't put you off buying cause your gaging.
Claven, where do you see a vergueiro in the pics?
 
The "odd looking gun" is a Norwegian Model 1894 Krag-Jorgenson rifle in calibre 6.5x55. It has been sportered.

Quite possibly it is one of the rifles 'liberated' annually from the Norwegian sealing ships up at The Front along with (literally) 5-gallon buckets filled with 50-round boxes of Norma-Oslo ammo. Brown boxes, red printing, 'Spesielt Fabrikert for Selfangst": Specially made for Seal Hunting. Load is a 156-grain RNSP bullet.

Rifle is a standard 4-motion bolt with a single bolthead locking-lug and a long locking-rib like a Lee-Enfield. In good shape, they are superbly accurate. The "box" on the right side is the magazine gate; you open the action, flip the gate down and dump in 5 rounds, close the bolt. You now have a round up the pipe. NO Chargers for these babies.

The actions are unbelievably slick and smooth, even the many-times-rebuilt mixmasters.

The Vikings always did make good weapons.... and they proved it again here.
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RRCo. said:
Thanks for your trouble. It was interesting to see those. What's the odd looking bolt gun on the top in your first photo of post #13?
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I think you're on the wrong set of pics Smellie. I think RRCo was asking about the bolt action shotgun in the second set of pics.

Adrian
 
could be a modded-to-death Gras; this happened to a lot of them between about 1900 and 1925. Some were just bored out, most were rebarreled in Belgium, lots of 20, 16 and even 12 gauge guns. Sold here in the $3 range. They generally are MARGINALLY safe with Blackpowder loads in 2-1/2-inch or (some) 2-3/4-inch cases.

Usually the Gras cocking-piece distinguishes them. Either this one has been modded or else it's something I haven't played with.

But that's something like what it started off as: single-shot blackpowder infantry rifle, sold for scrap price and rebuilt.

Same thing happened in Germany to a pile of 98 Mausers after the Great War. In these, Geco generally was the pepetrator, egged on by the Inter-Allied Armaments Control Commission. Sometime you can find them today for $30 or $40, former 98 battle rifles bearing famous markings. They escaped the smelter but their existence since has been no bed of roses, that's for sure. Generally, they are beat almost to death..... but they are still good study pieces, especially if you can't afford a pristine one. Believe me, that is the ONLY way I ever could have afforded to take apart a Chassepot!

So we know WHAT it is and how it got that way, although the exact type still escapes me.

I run away now. Got to find a book or six.......

Sorry for the mix-up (I didn't have my glasses on!).
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AdrianM said:
This is the sling I bought:

Anybody want to tell me the proper way to put this on?
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Here is the proper way to install that sling.

2nd rifle down (the "brand-new" looking Mk4)...

Insert retaining clip thru sling-loop, from outside to inside, then attach clip to sling. Repeat on opposite end (come from the outside, to place the buckle on the inside of the sling).

:)

* and is that your belly in the background, TwoTone ? LoL :p

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AdrianM said:
I think you're on the wrong set of pics Smellie. I think RRCo was asking about the bolt action shotgun in the second set of pics.

Adrian
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Correct, but thanks for sharing that info Smellie. I don't own a Krag but have handled and admired them. The mag top-up-ability is a neat feature.

There is a Geco Gew98 to 12G conversion on the EE at the moment, maybe two actually (same seller)
 
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