Some old Allies and Adversaries sitting in the sun

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Sadly a while back I made the mistake of thinning out the milsurp collection to make room for other firearms - I say a mistake because I let go some items that cannot be replaced. Fortunately not all were sold and yesterday a number of these old warriors had a nice afternoon sitting in the sun swapping tales of battles passed..........
 
Nice..makes me wanna pull all the milsurps out and get some pics in the sun.....the '49 SKS stock looks dry..did you use tung oil or BLO ?
 
That's not a '49, it's a chinese Type 56.

As for the 1903, I think it's an inter-war SA wearing a WW2 era bbl from an arsenal rebuild.
 
Yep, a Chinese one it is (military version from Marstar) and the 1903 is, indeed, an inter war SA as Claven2 described. Claven2 would know more about that particular 1903 than anyone since he built it :)

Allies and adversaries in title came to mind and pertains to the Cold War era not WWII
 
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Perhaps not here or directly in Europe, but the Cold War did get very hot in a lot of other places.

Proxy wars, Sam Cummings pouring in the German War Two stuff on on side, Nicky the K pouring in the brand-new Sov stuff on the other side, Fidel sending his troops ALL over the map (friend of mine shot a few in Namibia and Angola both), Russian "advisers" everywhere, Tariq Ali sucking the bucks out of the universities here to buy Russian MGs to send to Angola, nukes sitting in Cuba, Florida with a possible 3-minute warning. I saw a whole rack of in-grease AKMs, 8 months old, that came out of Northern Ireland; they were already in a museum!

Here, during the Cuban Missile thing, our local Regiment was on 2-hours notice to pick up our tanks...... which were older than we were, 20 years older than the Sov models..... and 85 miles way.

Tense, tense times.

If you didn't live through it, you will never understand it.

"Adversaries" fits just right.
 
Tomochan

I know photos can change the color of what they actually are, but in the photo the Springfield 03 looks to be a very light gray. As an American I can say I have never seen parkerizing that light in color and normally they are a darker gray-green. Is the color photo off or do the colors get lighter the closer you get to the north pole? Or is that rebuild unissued and untouched by the hand of man and a complete virgin?

Not to be insulting but my well used 03 doesn't look anywhere close to as nice as looking as yours, so I hope you have a power failure and all you beer gets warm.
 
Tomochan said:
Sadly a while back I made the mistake of thinning out the milsurp collection to make room for other firearms - I say a mistake because I let go some items that cannot be replaced. Fortunately not all were sold and yesterday a number of these old warriors had a nice afternoon sitting in the sun swapping tales of battles passed..........
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Looking to sell your M48? :D
 
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