Collection check...how am I doing? Pics added, 56k warning.
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NavyShooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- XMU Local .303
I always end up slightly envious when I see Klunk pull that pic out....not only does he have a damn fine collection, but he also has a bigger gun room than me.
NS
NS
- Location
- Downtown Vancouver, BC
Yeah, NS. The worst part of it is, it's a bit bigger collection since that picture was taken. 
He needs to get the Maxim in there still.
He needs to get the Maxim in there still.
All Klunks basement needs is a few mannequins in WW2 gear and some plaques next to the more interesting pieces to qualify as a first rate museum.
If you can't afford every rifle you want pick your favourite and spend the cash for a really good example. Or better yet one really good collector and a good shooter of the same rifle.
If you can't afford every rifle you want pick your favourite and spend the cash for a really good example. Or better yet one really good collector and a good shooter of the same rifle.
Do you know how expensive manequins can be????....it would seriously cut into gun-money
gunplumberr
Regular
nice collection..and klunk's stuff isn't too bad either..I've seen better
Collections
You gentlemen have a good start to compiling nice collections. I have had all of them and am on my third or fourth collection in the span of thirty-five years. They build up and slowly go down changing into another area of interest.
Now you will have to get the reference books, and bayonets to go with them. I have 2,500 to 3,000 books and approximately 400 bayonets.
An old collector told me “Having something without reference material, makes you a gatherer” and “Having the information to back it up makes you a collector”.
I hope you don’t take offence to what I just wrote; I am not trying to offend anyone. I always lived by that rule, and a good reference with detailed pictures tells me more about a firearm than any amount of description ever did.
You gentlemen have a good start to compiling nice collections. I have had all of them and am on my third or fourth collection in the span of thirty-five years. They build up and slowly go down changing into another area of interest.
Now you will have to get the reference books, and bayonets to go with them. I have 2,500 to 3,000 books and approximately 400 bayonets.
An old collector told me “Having something without reference material, makes you a gatherer” and “Having the information to back it up makes you a collector”.
I hope you don’t take offence to what I just wrote; I am not trying to offend anyone. I always lived by that rule, and a good reference with detailed pictures tells me more about a firearm than any amount of description ever did.
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Great saying.... I'll have to remember that one ....
plus....
.......and a good reference with detailed pictures tells me more about a firearm than any amount of description ever did.
~Angel~ and I agree 100%, which is why we created the MKL, in order to help all collectors (new and old) have free access to share this type of material.
Regards,
Badger
Sorry the pics are big boys, working on down sizing them. Here is my WWII Collection without the K98 Bandoleers and clips.
And heres the full collection.
As for the money and the will. I certainly have the will, but I have to be carefull how much I spend. I have given myself a limit of $200/mo. Thats been very hard to keep to, but I'm getting better. As for keeping the wife happy, well, thats been very hard. Part of it is, if she don't know, she don't get mad. And part of it is, I have a love for WWII, so she does have an understanding, to a limit. I told her I was going to try and do a M91/30 repro PU sniper, and she got mad, but she got a good smile on her face when I told her a bit of the history, with women being great snipers for Russia and all. There's a lot of give and take over the last two and some years.
you shouldnt take the magazine out of your enfield there.
the magazine release spring and the trigger spring are the same, and taking out and putting back the mag wears it down.
the enfield was never intended to have its magazine removed unless it was necessary for cleaning.
The spring gets flexed every time the trigger is pulled, and the bolt cycled. Removing and replacing the magazine isn't going to do any harm. The only springs I have ever seen fail on a No.4 are the extractor and magazine springs, and that doesn't happen very often. The extractor spring is one of the few parts that is worth keeping as a spare. Keeping the magazine separate can result in its loss, if you forget where you put it.
Good point
But the I-net kinda makes it a moot point now to a degree
Saying that...I also have a couple G in books...alotta of them are on subjects I will never own...Like original Germ Uniforms or that collectors grade on Volksturm weapons....Id kill for a Volkssturmgewehr
Good point
But the I-net kinda makes it a moot point now to a degree
Saying that...I also have a couple G in books...alotta of them are on subjects I will never own...Like original Germ Uniforms or that collectors grade on Volksturm weapons....Id kill for a Volkssturmgewehr
Should I dig up a couple VG2's & VG3's for you from the ole halftrack!
Gotta love those reference books!
Cheers! c96
NavyShooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- XMU Local .303
Recently grabbed a copy of the SPIW book....serial flechette rifle....with flechettes prohib by type, there'd be no way I'd ever get one, but still some NEAT ideas in there!
NS
NS
Id kill for a Volkssturmgewehr
Carcanos are easier to find
And to a lesser extent, Kriegsmodel K98k's.
- Location
- Cold Lake, Alberta
the begining of my milsurp collection
the begining of my milsurp collection
Now all you've got to do is desporterize them...
