M1918 Bar?
- Thread starter archie_james_c
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- Dah Soo,ON
Thank you spelling Gestapo.
So what was the point of allthe torch cuts? To render it useless?
For those who have had the opportunity to fire one of those things, is it true that because of the weird balance, gas system etc... That some of these things tended to recoil/creep FORWARD rather than the usual backwards when fired ?
Something about the bolt/gas piston returning to the closed position, but carrying such a momentum with them that it made the whole gun want to creep forward .... One of those things I've read that could very well be an urban legend.
Something about the bolt/gas piston returning to the closed position, but carrying such a momentum with them that it made the whole gun want to creep forward .... One of those things I've read that could very well be an urban legend.
Heres mine before and after. As you can see some lunatic cut into the reciever to deact it as mentioned. A hole is on the barrel as is some kind of slice as well. But the gas tube is mint.
Most of the canadian ones I have seen have been Royal Typewriter Co. According to "Rock in a Hard Place" a lot of these ROC guns appeared to have been bought or imported into Canada back in the day by some collector. Guess he liked BAR's----ALOT--.
I would love to find the history of these brands and or how the ended up here officially.
As you can see the welds were an issue as stated. First I used MIG. That was a big mistake. Too porous. Then finished it with TIG which fixed it as good as it will be for now. You can see the weld marks and it looks like a big snot mark on the side of the gun but Ive seen worse.
This is why when I display the gun at home or at the shows I show it this way
with the ####ty side in.
Most of the canadian ones I have seen have been Royal Typewriter Co. According to "Rock in a Hard Place" a lot of these ROC guns appeared to have been bought or imported into Canada back in the day by some collector. Guess he liked BAR's----ALOT--.
I would love to find the history of these brands and or how the ended up here officially.
As you can see the welds were an issue as stated. First I used MIG. That was a big mistake. Too porous. Then finished it with TIG which fixed it as good as it will be for now. You can see the weld marks and it looks like a big snot mark on the side of the gun but Ive seen worse.
This is why when I display the gun at home or at the shows I show it this way
with the ####ty side in.
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- Dah Soo,ON
Another reason why our govt. is ###...
Did you try some small SMAW like 1/16" 7018? It would probably work great on that receiver and barrel. Still...slashed up or not I'd love to have that BAR! I'd be like Oprah Winfrey talking to a deformed child "Your beautiful, your beautiful I dont care what anyone says **tears in eyes*)
Did you try some small SMAW like 1/16" 7018? It would probably work great on that receiver and barrel. Still...slashed up or not I'd love to have that BAR! I'd be like Oprah Winfrey talking to a deformed child "Your beautiful, your beautiful I dont care what anyone says **tears in eyes*)
No but eventually I,m going to try it again. It looks ok actually now that I have blued it again. Just looks like some battle scars. The problem is the metal is so brittle to weld. Its like welding butter.
I only paid 350 bucks for it so I,m happy for now.
Typical Canadian (un)happy ending story.....when the RCAF Base in Toronto was closed back in the 1960s, something like thirty new, unfired BARs in Transit Boxes were found; various manufacturers...six or seven of us who all had FA tickets approached Gummint Assets and offered to buy all of them at a fair price...."NFW, gentlemen" was the non-negotiable response. About two months later, we were able to buy them, but without their boxes, and only after they had been severely molested with the red wrench, effectively creating scrap with some nice pieces of walnut attached- but on the plus side, just think of the lives that were no doubt saved.....
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- Dah Soo,ON
Of course you would have obviously went and shot a room full of elderly war veterans with it immediately.
#1bcshooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- North Of The DMZ (US border)
It's no legend . I owned & fired a BAR & Bren . They both creep forward .
They both fire from the open bolt , That is why
For those too young to remember there was a time the Bren & BAR were just a rifle in the eyes of the Gov with no restrictions on there use or ownership . You could even hunt with one ( If you wanted too LOL ) They were converted auto but there was no classification back then . Both sold for around $400 each back then ( And it wasn't that long ago )
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Teddy had a Colt manufactured one he used to bring out on our FA range days, before the government went girly. I don't think he has it anymore though. Too bad, it was very cool to fire. - dan
I bought one that is eight feet long.............................
I hope to restore it someday.
Cheers,
Bill
That looks exactly like the one Pat had at Brekinridge guns in North york years ago before he closed down shop. Then before that I saw it in another shop I think it was Lions sporting good in Leaside around 78 pr 79.
Interesting to see these things move around.
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- Manitoulin Island
Why do people re-post the previous posts with all the photos? No need for this. Anyone on dialup would really be slowed down.
Well life has its little trying moments doesnt it
. Perhaps get into the now and get high speed.
Well life has its little trying moments doesnt it
It's not always available in rural areas. Satellite internet sucks. Hopefully the rural folks will get wireless towers soon.
Once you download the first instance of the image, all the others are just copies of it and do not need to be downloaded individualy, so if there are 1 or 100 of the same image on the page, time to download is the same.
