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A friend showed me an interesting rifle today. when I first saw it I thought is was an old military Mauser but on closer examination I noticed a number of anomalies. The barrel was not correct, being too big in diameter after the second step. The front sight was incorrect. the extractor was not quite right. The stock was nicely finished but the wood was incorrect. The muzzle looked like it was probably a 7mm but I couldn't be sure. When I cycled the action I was most surprized to find that it cocked on closing rather than on opening. I asked where he got it and he said that he took it from an Iraqi who surrendered. He was an Air Force guy so getting it back to the states was easy. It had Pakistani markings and It even had mismatched serial numbers for some reason. Probably because the rifle that the smith was copying had mismatched numbers. It actually looked like one of the reworked 1924 FN mausers more than anything else. Has anyone here run into anything like this?:confused:
 
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The Khyber Pass strikes again.

To answer your question, yes it's a well known phenomena. There's a secluded region in Pakistan where for well over a century people have made a living largely by turning out copies of firearms made largely entirely by hand. It's by far the largest illegal firearms manufacturing and trading hub in the world, and guns are the livelihood of the people living there and have been for generations.

The quality of the copies varies, in some cases actually being quite excellent but they should all be treated as suspect.
Every commonly issued firearm from the past two centuries has almost certainly ended up there and subsequently been copied.

This vice feature was an alright look at some of it.
 
Goose762 said:
The Khyber Pass strikes again.

To answer your question, yes it's a well known phenomena. There's a secluded region in Pakistan where for well over a century people have made a living largely by turning out copies of firearms made largely entirely by hand. It's by far the largest illegal firearms manufacturing and trading hub in the world, and guns are the livelihood of the people living there and have been for generations.

The quality of the copies varies, in some cases actually being quite excellent but they should all be treated as suspect.
Every commonly issued firearm from the past two centuries has almost certainly ended up there and subsequently been copied.

This vice feature was an alright look at some of it.
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Not to mention countless rediculous guns, like a Martini Henry PISTOL! lol

I really liked the Vice feature on it, if only because I am a white guy who could never get there without a battalion of armed guards... Would have been nice if they spent a bit more time showing various people working their craft though.

 
Very interesting pistol. You have to hand it to those craftsmen, they seem to have endless ideas of what to make out of an old action and parts.
 
Number 6 on my bucket list of places to visit. Years a go read an article about that area. The Writer visted gun shops there and the one that I recall were selling 1911 / 45's Rolex's and many of the marking's were backwards or Spelt wrong and had the wrong fonte . and if you wanted to shoot it just pay for Ammo step into the street/ Alleyway and Squeeze off A Mag or two. All reloads naturally of the highest quality LOL!!
 
Nabs said:
Very interesting pistol. You have to hand it to those craftsmen, they seem to have endless ideas of what to make out of an old action and parts.
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its not that old of an action a lot of Khyber pass martinis are still being made if you see the amount of steel removed from the back of the martini pistol actions they are very unsafe
 
As a Canadian of Pakistani origin, I can tell you those arms don't have a good reputation.

People normally just buy G3 or MP5 from POF. These are produced under license from Hk.

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They also produce type type 56 variant. And they are all reasonably pricef
 
chicu1981 said:
As a Canadian of Pakistani origin, I can tell you those arms don't have a good reputation.

They also produce type type 56 variant. And they are all reasonably pricef
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Yeah big difference between Pakistan Ordance Factory ( Licensed ) and Khyber Pass lol.. CNC machines VS Hand Files..
 
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