One for each hand... :)

[KotKotofeich]

I don't know when I might have two of these here again as one will be leaving for Prague. It will have a home on a rental range so if you are visiting the Czech Republic you may have a chance for some trigger time...

I do have another as a stripped receiver in storage so if I ever find parts I will restore it.

They are an absolute joy to shoot. No recoil to speak of. The target at 300 yards was getting nicely shredded...

Tuning of the recoil spring is a pain, the armourer manual recommends 12-14 lbs and my trigger scale goes to 8 only... Had to jerry rig a contraption And still one had to have the spring tension loosened - I was getting super slow cyclic rate on the large gas port setting... Another interesting observation for me was that they're not as loud as I would have expected. The front of the cooling jacket directs the sound forward.

I'm not going to pretend that I got a lot of trigger time on them - it's not cheap - I did my best to replicate mk vii ammunition, as the 303 in the stores here is hunting ammo not to those specs...

Merry Christmas to all... This is how I welcomed it this year...

 

[Claven2]

Not to be morbid, but one day when your estate can't find that remaining Lewis gun to shred into razor blades, it will be a crying shame.

 

[apex survival]

I once watched John from Wolverine Supplies fire his Lewis, certainly something you don't see often!

 

[KotKotofeich]

Not to be morbid, but one day when your estate can't find that remaining Lewis gun to shred into razor blades, it will be a crying shame.

You are an optimist thinking I'd get to keep them till I die... With renewals every three years this gig exists at the whim of the cfo.

And I'm an optimist thinking that I still have quite a few years as I'm 45...

I get what you are trying to say, but in the spirit of being optimists, I hope my kids (or at least someone) would be both interested and able to carry on the business in some form so there'd be no danger of anything becoming razor blades.

 

[Licensed to kill]

You are an optimist thinking I'd get to keep them till I die... With renewals every three years this gig exists at the whim of the cfo

I see you are from Ontario so you might have a year or two. Here in Alberta, “for life” is not a pipe dream like the rest of the country.

 

[tiriaq]

Shot a Lewis a number of times.

 

[KotKotofeich]

A little anecdote on this subject - took the kids to the aviation and space museum (in Ottawa) and they have at least three Lewis guns in the collection - one in the main display and two more in the "reserve hangar" - the extra guided tour (highly recommended)... And one of the guns appears to have a fully loaded drum. I only spotted it after taking a picture and zooming in... The guide had no idea if it's a dewat or if the ammunition is dummy, so that's the extent of what I saw - naturally no one would let me climb a historical aircraft to pop off the drum and inspect

 

[Painkillers]