January Purchases

Skippy said:
Beautiful looking Carcano my friend.

Mine shoots and handles great but yours looks much nicer than my old beater.
Yours is made one year later than Lee harvey Oswald's, same arsenal and calibre though.

Let's see some more glamour pics of that baby to crash the mosin party.
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Glamour pics, eh, Skip?
Mmmm, well, I guess we could start with this pic of her #######' around with this suspect member of the local shooting fraternity.;)
Geez, he's got her bolt open and everything!:eek:
The sicko! :mad: :D :D

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And now to get serious.....
Here's a pic of the proofing on the bbl just forward of the handguard.

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It's a little hard to make out but it says:

6.5x52 M/MIT
17.5 TONS PER

I gather the B B 5 in the Mercedes-type symbol is from the proofing house as is the B N P under the crown.
 
More news on my Carcano.....
The extractor spring(?) in the bolt is broken or worn and the extractor keeps slipping off the rim.
As such it extracts maybe 1 out of 3.
The crown is pretty dinged up too so it's off to the gunsmith for a bolt repair and probably a recrown as well.
 
Thanks to Craig67 I know that my M44 is Polish, but what are these old crowbars worth,... mines mint like above?

It's a 1951 with about 10 rounds out the pipe.
 
Very nice guns :cool: I picked up a C-I-L 300 , Anschutz out of Germany. It looks great, like new,2 steel 10 shot mags. I decided the target peep that I took off my Walther single shot was perfect for the semi, and it fits nice:D Can't wait to run a brick through it. :dancingbanana:
 
Portuguese M1904 Mauser-Vergueiro in original 6.5x58

Got this one last week. A scarce Portuguese M1904 in the original 6.5x58. This one saw service in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, hence the "DMGLM" ("Direcção Militar Geral Lourenço Marques" - translated to "General Military Directorate Lourenço Marques"). Lourenço Marques was the capital city of Portuguese Moçambique (Mozambique) until independence in 1975 (today´s Maputo). Pages 290-291 of Ball's Fourth Edition "Mauser Military Rifles of the World" has a nice write-up.

In my case I have weapon #1572. No, it's not mint - bolt doesn't match, there is pitting under the woodline, and a splinter missing from the forestock (the patina shows it's an old injury). The bore is "Good" though, and I like it.

A nice sister for my other M1904 in 6.5mm - that one is VG and is a UDF (South Africa) gun.

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Andy said:
Got this one last week. A scarce Portuguese M1904 in the original 6.5x58. This one saw service in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, hence the "DMGLM" (Directorao Generale Militare Lorenco Marquis) - roughly translated to the: "Military Directorate of Lorenco Marquis" (today's Mozambique). Pages 290-291 of Ball's Fourth Edition "Mauser Military Rifles of the World" has a nice write-up.

In my case I have weapon #1572. No, it's not mint - bolt doesn't match, there is pitting under the woodline, and a splinter missing from the forestock (the patina shows it's an old injury). The bore is "Good" though, and I like it.

A nice sister for my other M1904 in 6.5mm - that one is VG and is a UDF (South Africa) gun.
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Mate, what a pearler!:eek:
You lucky dog!:)
Mind you getting ammo for it would be impossible I'd imagine.
Or will this baby be a collector only?
If not, what do you form brass from?
And who makes dies?
 
kombi1976 said:
Mind you getting ammo for it would be impossible I'd imagine. Or will this baby be a collector only? If not, what do you form brass from? And who makes dies?
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I doubt I'll ever shoot it, but if I do, I'll likely make brass from shortened 270 Win. Finding ammo - forget it, and it'd be worth too much as a collectible anyways.

I've not yet bought any special dies for odd-balls like this, always finding ways to form the brass using combinations of other common dies, and then fire-forming. After the first firing, you neck size (6.5mm WSSM would work nicely), and when it gets hard to chamber, resize the body with the die you used to form it in the first place. Mind you with mild cast loads, that's a lot of firings until you get there.
 
Skippy said:
That isn't your uber-bubba redressed is it Josh?
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Nope, this one is from cantom. I'm still working on the bubba, it had some problems with the safety I had to work out, but it's going to be a really nice hunting rifle when I'm done with it, I'll make a post when it's done.
 
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