SMELLIE, BUFFDOG and TWOSTEAM go play.

AdrianM said:
OHHHHH the suspense! You're killing me here! I wanna be an insider on the next project then!
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Send $1000 for an Application Fee, in a brown paper bag, with the name " SMELLIE, Poverty Alleviation Program " on it, and you will be considered as contributing to our next project..:)

Alternatively, you are doing all right with your posts and collection as far as I can see, so keep up the good work.
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Smellie is a Cradle Robber? :confused:

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Hey guys, looks ain't everything.

Twosteam also makes a mean cuppa coffee, is completely NICE and owns and runs THREE lathes of her own. Get onto Google Earth and type in Two Creeks, MB for a shot of her little summer house.

Coffee's on here in town. PM first if passing through.
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The Enfields were a Mark 1, a Mark 1* and a Mark 1** reworked to Mark 1* as nearly all were. Three different types of grip, too.

The Webley was a wartime Mark IV marked "WAR FINISH" and meaning it. It has been modded for competition shooting at some time.

The tiny one on the right is a late-1906-production FN Browning 6.35mm which has (of all things) a factory LANYARD STUD on the frame.

I think the preceding post has something to do with a Feline/Female version of a Sock Closet!
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It's going to be furniture posts from the wood lathe for some time.

The two metal lathes will be doing small Snider parts.

My entire stock of Snider spares has been sequestered and she has a barreled action coming from QM86,87, so it is likely my 24-bore brass supply also will disappear, at least in part.

These things do happen.
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smellie said:
It's going to be furniture posts from the wood lathe for some time.

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OH ---OOOOOOOOh. I knew I should not have given her that wood lathe. Now she will be wanting some of my wood supply.

Better off that she is pillaging your gun parts than mine.

BTW, the view of Two Creeks is from the outside of the Moat, which is inhabited by very large Snapping Turtles. :sok2 .If you don't believe me, take a good look at the big black thing in the water in the picture that she posted.
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purple said:
When I used to do hail claims in Manitoba we were warned to steer clear of that area - kind of a "no-go" area for us young fellers. I never knew just why, but I'm beginning to understand.
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The screams of tormented souls and the Ravens, Crows, Turkey Buzzards, Harpies and other scavengers that are constantly circling the Bell Tower should give anyone a good clue as a place to avoid.

Tresspassers are incarcerated in the Basement dungeons, but if you have an invitation, you are fairly safe.
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smellie said:
The Enfields were a Mark 1, a Mark 1* and a Mark 1** reworked to Mark 1* as nearly all were. Three different types of grip, too.

The Webley was a wartime Mark IV marked "WAR FINISH" and meaning it. It has been modded for competition shooting at some time.

The tiny one on the right is a late-1906-production FN Browning 6.35mm which has (of all things) a factory LANYARD STUD on the frame.

I think the preceding post has something to do with a Feline/Female version of a Sock Closet!
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Thanks for the details on the Revolvers Smellie.

All I have read is that the Mk1** is that they were modified to make production faster or easier and then due to safety reasons most were converted back. What exactly were the changes?

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On the Mark 1**, it was war-time emergency manufacture. They left out the hammer block because it added a couple of parts which were not strictly necessary to make the thing go "BANG!".

Problem was that without the hammer block, the gun could fire if it got a smack on the hammer.

Once the "super-emergency" status in production was out of the way, new hammers with blocks and springs and such were made and retrofitted to the existing guns. When guns were surplussed after the war, they all were checked carefully and no guns without the hammer-block were released.

I have seen exactly ONE "no-hammer-block" Mark 1**. It was in the Pattern Room.

I have not encountered one in use in civil life, although there could be a couple out there. Always CHECK.
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