August Purchases

[tadam05]

I'll start it for this month!

An acquaintance of mine let me have a few of his old guns, got three of them for a song. One is a .303 no. 1 mk. 3 sporter, one is a Polish Nagant in new condition, and this one is my favorite, Portuguese Mauser-Vergueiro m/1904/39 in 8mm, all numbers matching!

Thanks for looking!

 

[CanadianAR]

Niiiiice haul!

I picked up a AC42 P38. All matching with a nice 42 hardshell.

 

[AdrianM]

Wow...August is starting off strong. Nice guns guys.

 

[Nabs]

An 1886 M93 Lebel. Made at St. Etienne in 1890. The French soldier put his personal mark on this rifle as well.

Can't wait to shoot her .

 

[jfred]

When they show up I'll post pics of my Swede and my M44. I'll also post pics of my VZ, and my Longbranch, even though I bought them last month

 

[Klunk]

Neat-O stuff!

Those Vergeiro's can SHOOOT-amazing accuracy and slick handling

 

[dimon]

Picked up this one at the local flea market in Latvia...
Soviet made Ak-74 bayonet, made in Izhevsk in 1982. Matching numbers on bayo and scabbard. I used to carry exactly the same bayo when I was in Army, except mine had a number 578 and this one is 554(usually last three digits of gun's serial number are assigned to the bayo)

 

[blista77]

today i picked up a 1917 mark 3 enfield for $250, not really sure how much there worth, the seller also gave me some parts for differn enfield, 2 stripper clips and a spent belt of 8mm dated 1942 to add to my collection, srry about the crappy pictures i only got a cell phone for pictures,
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[6167]

1943 Colt 1911A1

Really nice piece.
Appears to be all Colt right down to the C-R mag.
Just a bit of holster wear for the " I was there" bragging rights!

 

[Steve1987]

USMC WWII M1 Helmet.
Details: First pattern Hawley liner. Fixed bale steel pot. First pattern USMC helmet cover. 100% original.

Finding this USMC helmet was a long journey...

-Steve

 

[joe n]

No slits, nice lid!

 

[mark k]

I got this old girl in the mail today. It's a National Postal Meter 1484###, with an Inland trigger group and a 11-51 dated Springfield barrel. It's got some external pitting, but the bore cleaned up nicely. The stock has the M2 selector cut as well. It's my first M1, but I see why people like them. It feels much like my Ruger 10/22.

 

[Riflechair]

Refurbed M91/30 Sniper
Mostly satisfied
Note the 'Matched' scope (receiver polished and renumbered)

 

[Clubhopper]

James River Armory M1 Garand built on a Jan 1944 Springfield Armory Receiver:

 

[Riflechair]

NICE! Criterion barrel?

 

[Clubhopper]

NICE! Criterion barrel?

Thanks! I thought it was a criterion at first but I did some digging and its a new Springfield Armory barrel from July 1951...

 

[ianwd]

Longbranch C # 7, 1946 vintage

Picked up this beuty at Auction cost me a couple of Limbs but its worth it .
its in pristeen condition she been looked after for sure . a sweet companion piece for my Mk 8 . It came with the wooden case cleaning rod oiler etc i recently bought an old longbranch 303 sporter with a mag with a .22 follower in it so i have 2 mags. The one that came with it is marked .22 .
i could have went daft at the auction and bought the Blond one . i never seen an enfield with wood so white it was also a C# 7 no box , and looked like it never been touched let alone fired .

I think i may need surgery to get the smile off my face now i own this baby

 

[Nyles]

Gorgeous C No.7! Lots of memories of my youth in cadets.

I'm really pleased that I was able to pick up my own holy grail rifle after selling 5 other guns to scrape up the money (of course my holy grail comes for sale the week after buying my first house). It's a Belgian Mauser 1889 rifle, made my Manufacture D'Armes de L'Etat (not FN), and judging by the serial number (a16XX) one of the first two thousand made. It's in really nice shape with several clear Leopold II cartouches, all matching numbers and a non-matching bayonet and WW2 era sling. It's got Birmingham proof marks, so went through Britain at one point, possibly as part of their WW1 era refurbishment program, but doesn't have the telltale Etat Belge marks. Overall it's in great shape and a wonderful example of an extremely rare rifle!

Somewhat on the other end of the spectrum, I also picked up a Carcano M91 Fucile in quite rough shape, but the price was right and I needed one as a placeholder. The stock is rough, the metal gone to patina and the cleaning rod missing, but the bore is decent and seems shootable. The is one was made at Terni in 1897, and I also scrounged up a bayonet for it.

 

[fredqc]

Glad you bought the belgian mauser, i was thinking about it for a few months... it is no more a money problem! Very nice find

 

[tiriaq]

Speaking of Belgian Mausers one of the big US auction houses liquidated a large collection, which included a Hopkins and Allen toolroom prototype of a Belgian contract rifle. Oddly enough, it was one of the few items that I could actually have talked myself into bidding on. I thought that the buyer got a very rare rifle at a very decent price.