Show us yer Chrome Plated Milsurps!!!

ollie said:
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The dude on the left has his action stuck partially to the rear...musta hooked the op rod on his uniform...:runaway:
 
Klunk said:
The dude on the left has his action stuck partially to the rear...musta hooked the op rod on his uniform...:runaway:
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Yeah, buddy looks a little unfocussed, too. Wonder if someone's gonna scream at him in about 5 minutes.

Poor bastard. All that and white bootlaces, too.
 
Here's a double shot for ya. Not mine, but I took the photo at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, WY last fall.

Colt 1921AC and M1 Garand, both pretty glitzy.

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Unsub wrote: "It would not even be a good hunting rifle with the wandering zero. At least it looks like it was well done though."
Dont perpetuate myths that dont exist. That was put around so as to justify not making the rifle general issue as there were over 2 million No4 rifles in stock. The Small Arms School Corps were accomplicies to this crime!
 
TimC said:
Unsub wrote: "It would not even be a good hunting rifle with the wandering zero. At least it looks like it was well done though."
Dont perpetuate myths that dont exist. That was put around so as to justify not making the rifle general issue as there were over 2 million No4 rifles in stock. The Small Arms School Corps were accomplicies to this crime!
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I've had several Jungle Carbines and they were extremely accurate...I think the soldiers wanted semis and did not want to have another bolt action rifle adopted...
 
There wasa thread on several gun board forums which eventually all came to the same conclusion. The No 5 was well sought after by the troops who used it but general issue wasnt going to happen with so many No4 rifles available. I have shot with a few in LERA and HBSA who have spoken with those responsible at the time and they came to the conclusion that the wandering zero reports were cooked up by the SASC for political reasons. Even if we werent going self loading the Govt owned factories geared up for No4s and held many in stock, No5 production was only just off the blocks for 1945. It was easy to cancel production of a new unissued or incomplete production rifle than scrap all those No 4 rifles. In fact in 1945 the KAR was issued No4 rifles in Burma!
 
Calum said:
Gloss black would be pretty cool IMHO. :)
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If it were mine, I'd finish it in a nice satin-nickle finish and find a nice synthetic stock stock to replicate the military one. It would be the ultimate utility rifle, almost like a marine magnum 12 guage.
 
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