Captured (by CF/CAF) small arms

[Still alive]

Expendable Nate, what's in the holster on your hip?

Looks like a Browning HP?

 

[TheTooner]

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I think we can feel free to post from Boar War, First and Second World Wars/Korea/Umpteen "peacekeeping" missions, its all good.

I'm trying to free up a few days to hunt those pigs next month. I'll post pictures of tusks if I find any.

 

[mikerock]

Gew. 88/05

 

[Brutus]

CANFORME EOD Tp in Kuwait City made a three way trade with the USMC for 24 different AKs with flats of beer off the Royal Navy minesweeping mother ship. I like the East German AK's build quality the best. Someone in Ottawa read the Janes All the World's Armies listing for Iraq, and sent us a collection list. They got what was available.

During a torrid seperation some of my pic's disappeared that I had of our regimental museum. Ak-47s picked up in Cyprus during the 1974 Invasion. Rumored to have been sourced from the Greek cultural side.

 

[Expendable Nate]

actually one of each im gonna try and find the pic

Long Branch No4s or Martini Henrys? One of the long time favourites was the No1 MkIII SMLE, many of which were turned out by the so-called Khyber Pass Gunsmiths.

 

[Expendable Nate]

good old browning was brand new before tour

Looks like a Browning HP?

 

[flying pig]

Klunk, that MG08/15 is one of the nicest pieces I've ever seen on here in a private collection. WOW!

 

[Bacon Sandwich]

Anybody run across any old Martini Henry's in Afghanistan? The Mujahideen found their heavy wad of lead to be helpful when flung thru the blades of a Soviet helicopter. And how about Long Branch No4s? We still had a swack of them in war reserve in the late '70s. They suddenly disappeared in the early '80s.

Back in '05, we had the option of buying rifles and being reimbursed as our "tour gift." I walked through customs in Trenton with a Martini in one hand and an Enfield muzzle-loader in the other (likely both Khyber Pass copies). The army got lame, though, and I wasn't able to bring back the '53 pattern Enfield cavalry carbine (with the saddle ring and the ramrod on a pivot) that was in a shop in Camp Souter in '07. Saw a nice .303 Martini that tour, too.

 

[Light Infantry]

XCR

Thank you for the pics. Brings back a lot of memories.

 

[RobertMcC]

good old browning was brand new before tour

New lucky, I had a 2T, could shake #### it.