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I have a Mk.III Ross, ex 15th Bn CEF, ex RN, ex Chilean Navy, with a DA prefix serial. On a website with some Ross postings was a photo of a Ross bayonet and scabbard, serial DA - you guessed it - the bayonet for my rifle. It took a long time, but with the help of a Ross collector in the US, and CGN "Dantforth", the bayonet was located and purchased, and yesterday was reunited with the rifle. It does not happen very often that items can be matched up like this.
 
Cool!
So does that mean every Enfield, and other Milsurp out there could have a Bayonet lurking about that it belongs to? :confused: :eek:

So they will have the same serial numbers? :confused:
 
That's actually a pretty good idea, there should be a way to pool ressources over here, and maybe make a few more such "reunifications", I'm sure there are quite a few milsurps out there who are mismatched because they were assembled out of parts bins and were never "forced-matched", or were separated from their "accessories" like bayonets and scabbards because they were either not surplused, or sold, simultaneously. How about a voluntary "looking for bits numbered 123456" thread ?
 
I REALLY have to learn how to do this. As a dinosaur, I am still intimidated by computers. Have yet to hurl one to the floor, though. Need to find a 12 year old kid to show me how to post photos. Every time that I see BadgerDog's album, I am very jealous of his computer/photography skills - as well as the firearms. The Ross came from BC, the bayonet had been in New York State, prior to being added to a collection in Ontario. I assume that the rifle and bayonet were sold separately when they were sold surplus by Century in the '70s. Gunco, in Nepean, sold a DA set last fall. Incidentally, a DA Ross and its matching bayonet were split up and sold separately just about a year ago in Western Canada.
 
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I REALLY have to learn how to do this. As a dinosaur, I am still intimidated by computers. Have yet to hurl one to the floor, though. Need to find a 12 year old kid to show me how to post photos. Every time that I see BadgerDog's album, I am very jealous of his computer/photography skills - as well as the firearms. The Ross came from BC, the bayonet had been in New York State, prior to being added to a collection in Ontario. I assume that the rifle and bayonet were sold separately when they were sold surplus by Century in the '70s. Gunco, in Nepean, sold a DA set last fall. Incidentally, a DA Ross and its matching bayonet were split up and sold separately just about a year ago in Western Canada.
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Tiriaq, go to www.photobucket.com and sign up for an account. Then upload all your pics to that account - the site re-sizes them automatically.

Then when you post on CGN, and you want to insert a photo, look for the
insertimage.gif
button. Click it and then put the photobucket picture's "URL address" into the field and click "OK". It's clearly indicated what each photo's "URL Address" is on the photobucket page.

When you post your thread, the picture will appear.

Pretty simple, really. PM me if you need more help in this regard.
 
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction............

Last year, I bought a beautiful 1935 Brazilian Long Rifle (Mauser Werke) from another CGN member and about a week after I got it, he sent me an email. He said he was sending me a present to go with the rifle and that he'd just express mailed it out.

I got the package and opened it up.

It was a 1935 Brazilian bayonet and scabbard in the same pristine condition as the original rifle and guess what? The serial number matched the rifle ......... :eek:

Now, here's the amazing part. It's not like he had this bayonet sitting around his house with the rifle.

He was traveling to visit a friend of his father's far from where they live. While there, they were in his basement and the friend unwrapped a cloth package and asked him if he was interested in the bayonet, which he had bought at a yard sale for $5 years before. Needless to say, when our CGN member saw the serial number, it triggered his memory and he was literally stunned, but not sure if it was really happening. When he got home, he checked the serial number and sure enough, it matched the rifle he had sold me. He graciously sent it to me at "no charge", even for the shipping. :)

It appears at one time the rifle and bayonet had got split up in the selling processes and now they are also re-united. So, who says miracles don't happen..... :D

Regards,
Badger
 
Along similar lines, I have a Bisley MLE prize rifle - Claven 2 has seen it. It was won in 1899 by a Canadian. That year the chap also shot for Canada in the Kolapore Match. Received a tip over at the old Gun & Knife Board that I should check a certain Ebay item. It was a sheet from the London Illustrated News, July 1899, with a photograph of the Cdn. Kolapore team. Won the item. In the photo there is a shooter holding a MLE so that you can see the side of the butt. There is a silver presentation plaque clearly visible.... No, its not my prize rifle, but a different one - the plaque is a slightly different shape. So, two Canadians won prize rifles at Bisley that summer. The winner of my rifle was Capt AD Cartwright of the 8th Royal Grenadiers of Toronto (now the Royal Regiment of Canada). In the photo, there is a gentleman wearing the crossbelt and match case of a grenadier. He is the only person in the photo with this accoutrement. So, I have a contemporary photo of the winner of the rifle, and for a moment thought I had a photo with the rifle being identifiable.
 
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