Italian Navy No4's alert and a sad story

Steppenwolf said:
I talked to Blair at Loyalist Arms, he was set to import them but people balked at his price of $485 a piece so he didn't bring them in.
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Hummm $485 for one of these babies?? They way prices have been going and the lack of surpluss coming into Canada. I'd go for one, Check out the ling an scroll down. In Italian but the pictures are good.

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Canadian SMLE's??

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Loyalist said
1) People threatened them that they had to be like $100 a rifle. Unpleasant enough that he gave up.
2) Apparently you didn't get to choose, just send them(in Italy) a bunch of money and take what you got, and not all of them were particularly nice.
3) I believe despite the bolt matching operation that a lot of them were mismatched as they could only match up a certain percentage.

That said, those pics are pretty tantalizing. I saw Long Branch rifles in the 1955's etc years, I guess that's where they all went.
 
RIFLECHAIR;
You have to remember that maybe 10 years ago the barrels were not worth that much....

We did concrete work here 20 years ago using Mauser barrels, they make great rebar....

When I look back at material we burned, because it was more costly to move than the product was worth, today it would be a fortune....

How about original transit boxes for Mg-34s and Mg-42s, empty wood crate for the 88mm shells (original German)....

25 container loads of British webbing burned so the workers could salvage the brass for scrap....

All of these events have to be considered int the context of the time....

I guess I should have kept that time travel machine
John
 
johnone said:
RIFLECHAIR;
You have to remember that maybe 10 years ago the barrels were not worth that much....

We did concrete work here 20 years ago using Mauser barrels, they make great rebar....

When I look back at material we burned, because it was more costly to move than the product was worth, today it would be a fortune....

How about original transit boxes for Mg-34s and Mg-42s, empty wood crate for the 88mm shells (original German)....

25 container loads of British webbing burned so the workers could salvage the brass for scrap....

All of these events have to be considered int the context of the time....

I guess I should have kept that time travel machine
John
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Too true, the barrels are gone move on.
 
I've got a bolt from a 0L90-- Long Branch here. The rest of it is in some old boy's garden wall, so they told me.
 
Heartbreaking to think of the history he destroyed...
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Over in Europe 50 years is hardly considered history. Every time I've visited I'm amazed at how non-chalant they are with things that are almost a thousand years old...

Still a shame though.
 
Gee, judging from the vehemence of some of the comments on here I shall have to revise my view of Canucks as UN-loving, gun-hating, kayaking-with-whales types :D
 
Riflechair said:
By the time I get home I'll have been here for three months.
Good news is that the Brits have all but abolished centrefire rifles. Their firearm lobbyist groups are not supported. Gun magazines are either about pellet guns or shotguns. Handguns are outright prohibitted and there are very very few centrefire certified rifle ranges - so no-one owns them anymore. A rifle is worth more when deactivated than not.

The bottom line......
The population is generally dissarmed.
The UK is ripe for invasion.

Sorry that was in bad taste..... :(
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I believe it is too late. I spent several hours in Heathrow two years ago and the only folks speaking English were my wife and myself....
 
Hi John
Don't get me wrong, I understand - time changes everything.
BUT
I think you're a savy enough businessman to recognize the value of several thousand in the while lee enfield barrels. Even ten years ago the value of 3,000 new enfield barrels were more valueble than rebar. From a business perspective it was a bad choice.

Anyway I don't want to belabour it. It serves no purpose other than to make me depressed and frustrated.

OK now that you all know that you're going to belabour this thread.
Bloody Hell, Bollocks, Wanker and all that other British slang.

RC

johnone said:
RIFLECHAIR;
You have to remember that maybe 10 years ago the barrels were not worth that much....

We did concrete work here 20 years ago using Mauser barrels, they make great rebar....

When I look back at material we burned, because it was more costly to move than the product was worth, today it would be a fortune....

How about original transit boxes for Mg-34s and Mg-42s, empty wood crate for the 88mm shells (original German)....

25 container loads of British webbing burned so the workers could salvage the brass for scrap....

All of these events have to be considered int the context of the time....

I guess I should have kept that time travel machine
John
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I have spent sometime in Scotland & very little in England. But I did notice in Scotland had a few hunting rifles & shops. Nothing exotic, military, or cheap. The suppressor they are required to hunt with, that most go nuts for over here, looks like a major P.I.A. to use; adding an extra foot & ton of weight to the front end. I'm not at all surprised their using barrels for rebar. The Scots & the Irish probably use Englishmen.(Joke!!!)
 
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