September Purchases ......... Note: 2005 (not this years)
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- Calgary, Alberta "Land of the Free"
This arrived today, all the way from Ontario from a CGN member 
The pics of the Garand aren't very good lol, it looks way better than in the pics. Blueing is perfect, action is smooth, great barrel, stock has a few dings but in excellent condition.
**EDIT**
Good point K-Rat, wasn't sure what I was thinking haha.
'43 Winchester with a 59 VAR date barrel. All I know. It's in excellent condition
The pics of the Garand aren't very good lol, it looks way better than in the pics. Blueing is perfect, action is smooth, great barrel, stock has a few dings but in excellent condition.
**EDIT**
Good point K-Rat, wasn't sure what I was thinking haha.
'43 Winchester with a 59 VAR date barrel. All I know. It's in excellent condition
CanadianSoldier said:This arrived today, all the way from Ontario from a CGN member
The pics of the Garand aren't very good lol, it looks way better than in the pics. Blueing is perfect, action is smooth, great barrel, stock has a few dings but in excellent condition.
Why not tell us a bit about it - manufacturer - year, etc
Claven2 said:
I read it as:
Phonetically:
Pyervey
Oruzhenny (Can 't read the last letter or two)
Zavod (There appears to be at least another character after the D by the way the words are centred, but I can't make it out.)
S.S.S.R.
V Tule
1926 G
In translation:
First (could be read as Primary)
Small Arms
Factory
USSR
In Tula
(Year) 1926 (Yes, "In the year of our lord" is more appropriate, but I wouldn't translate it that way in this particular usage.)
TŌMĀTŌ / TŎMĂTŌ Same thing essentially.
Cheers,
sparky
The phonetic spellings are so subjective. The translation though is the same.
First, Primary, Foremost, all basically interchangeable. "Small Arms" is probably more specifically correct, though "Ordnance" or "rifle" is not wrong either.
As for the year, under the Tsars, the "r" definitely meant "in the year of god". They didn't say "our lord" because it's an eastern rite thing. The communists didn;t bother to change it though, as it had be come a common usage suffix for "year" by the 1920's.
The wood on a 1926 Dargoon would have been arctic birch. A refurb is usually arctic birch too, but I have seen beech on occasion as Jean suggests.
First, Primary, Foremost, all basically interchangeable. "Small Arms" is probably more specifically correct, though "Ordnance" or "rifle" is not wrong either.
As for the year, under the Tsars, the "r" definitely meant "in the year of god". They didn't say "our lord" because it's an eastern rite thing. The communists didn;t bother to change it though, as it had be come a common usage suffix for "year" by the 1920's.
The wood on a 1926 Dargoon would have been arctic birch. A refurb is usually arctic birch too, but I have seen beech on occasion as Jean suggests.
Claven2 said:
I agree. I personally prefer the international system of using "J" instead of "Y", but then everyone says it like in "John".
But the first word definitely doesn't start with an "L".
Claven2 said:
I agree again. It's all subjective.
Claven2 said:
This is where I disagree. In transalation, it would be "year", not "in the year of god", for as you say it was/is the common shortform for year.
If it were to be translated to its original meaning for an English speaking audience, then to convey the meaning, it would still be "In the year of our Lord", but for a scholastic environment, it would be "In the year of God".
Again, TŌMĀTŌ / TŎMĂTŌ.
Cheers,
sparky
sparky said:
Couple of points.
1) Russian word for "God" transliterates as "Bog"
2) The USSR was an officially atheist state. They went so far as to strike the Imperial Romanov eagles and Nicholas II cyphers from receivers, replacing them with the hammer and sickle after the establishment of the Soviet State so any reference to God on a Soviet rifile is very unlikely.
3) Following a written year with the word for year "goda", is merely a grammatical device common not only to Russian but other Slavic languages as well.
RhysFromNZ
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- New Zealand
I hope in 2 hours, 15 minutes to be able to post a purchase here I'm checking the auction site every 10 minutes or so seeing if I need to up my autobid... a N^Z 1892 lee metford, rebarreled and remarked LE I*
Bare reciever, bolt and barrel, no wood or anything else just the bare essentials.
I'm checking the auction site every 10 minutes or so seeing if I need to up my autobid... a N^Z 1892 lee metford, rebarreled and remarked LE I*Bare reciever, bolt and barrel, no wood or anything else
just the bare essentials.
RhysFromNZ
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- New Zealand
Yup, I got it
Auction details follow:
1892 Mk11 Lee-Metford fitted with Enfield barrel and remarked LE1*.
Fitted with mismatched Mk11 L-M bolt with dustcover.
Receiver/barrel numbers match.
Full length barrel, bore fair.
Some external pitting.
in his questions to seller part of the auction page :
N^Z marked.
Auction details follow:
1892 Mk11 Lee-Metford fitted with Enfield barrel and remarked LE1*.
Fitted with mismatched Mk11 L-M bolt with dustcover.
Receiver/barrel numbers match.
Full length barrel, bore fair.
Some external pitting.
in his questions to seller part of the auction page :
N^Z marked.
