The mystery milsurp special tool thread.

Well, more of an accessory than a tool, but here it is anyway. It is marked
MISCANADA
1943

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It is sitting on top of an older photo from the Battle of the Bulge milsurp match here in Shilo. This years looks like it's going to be a challenge. Forecast is for -21 low and a high of -14.
 
Marked MISCANADA, Hummmm, I think thats a shortform for Miss Canada. Issued to women troops in WW2 to keep there make-up looking good so they always look pretty. :D

Nah I'm kidding though it might have been used for that seeing as there wasnt much trench warfare in WW2. :p

Dimitri
 
stencollector said:
So close I'll give it to you. After the techs have worked on the recuperators, they winch back the recoil (usually with a come-along, but they get fancy hydraulic powered jobbys to pull back the really big guns) to purge any air out of the oil. Once you have the system pulled back, you whack the release on the illustrated tool, and the jaws open up. The gun then slides back into battery.
Gunasaurus will correct me if I have it wrong. I wasn't a gunplumber myself, but owned a couple during operations or excersises. (every man should own one or two just to fill the 2AM to 4AM shift on sentry :) )
The illustrated tool goes back to the days of the 25pdr, and they are still in use with the C1 howitzers.

Mark has the FNC1 firing pin protrusion gage right
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You are indeed correct.....fantastic post BTW Sten.....
 
Ollie got her on the first crack.
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The actual nomenclature on the mirrors cover is: Periscope, no18mk1/MlSCANADA/1943. I have often wondered about why they were still making these in 43, but really at that pre-d-day time, perhaps they wanted to cover all the bases. Usually these mirrors are thought of as more a WW1 accessory.
Next up is a batch of three tools. If you get one, you'll likely get all 3.
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BTW: the tools are not to scale with the bren carrier in the background.
 
Haha, #2 is the triggerpull gauge. Same as the one in my toolbox at work! Thats not milsurp. Thats current issue.

It has the special claw on the other end for measuring the force required to draw back the cocking piece on a No.4.
 
OK, Babyseal got the easy one. Current they are, but milsurp too. This one has the C/i\ mark on it, indicating it was govt property back in the second WW era. When I bought it, a guy at the show (who is in the know) indicated the DND had just bought a reasonably large batch of these to put in the weapons tech tool boxes as it is still part of the checklists.
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this was a fun thread so i thought i will post a pic but .... with a twist cos some of you guys are too bloody good. pic is a side view and later a frontal view will be posted.

what does the tool do and for what firearms?

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Here are three more.

I decided to put them back as milsurp folks may find them interesting, I had thought they may not be. Here are three tools used with blackpowder firearms. You must guess what they are and their names. I tried to take photos but my camera... So I grabbed three stock photos to represent what I have.

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stencollector said:
Looks like a 30 cal broken shell extractor tool. There was also a slightly different one for the .308. Can't tell with your side view. It was used on the M1919A4, and I would venture to guess on other US 30-06 guns.
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shell extractor is correct but im not sure what caliber or firearms, but it looks like it will work on .308 , like in the frontal view pic.

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