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Tinman204 said:
It's a 1943 longbranch target rifle that was regulated by Alfred George Parker. It was pretty much as new with a perfect bore and bluing. Guy who had it had zero interest I it and said it had only been fired once in like 50 years. I paid the fellows asking price and giggled all the way home!!

For a guy like me who collects milsurp based oldschool target rifles finding one that isn't a Fulton or DCRA was like hitting the jackpot!!!!

If the weathers nice this weekend perhaps I should haul out all my target rifles and make a thread. I've been dying to do that fir years.
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Oh I appreciate a bit of eye candy as well as the next man. Just a lovely rifle. A SMLE was the first centerfire I owned and I have a fondness for them even now. You are a lucky man!

You need to do the thread. If I went to the trouble of watching at the window until wifey turned the corner, pulling open display cases, opening safes, turning off alarms, putting bolts in, draping aforementioned sofas and arranging my pretties for you, it's kinda expected that you'd do the same for me. We need more collections!

I need to see your couch man!
 
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Wow, thats some gucci kit right there. If you still have the loader you know who needs one :) That's a first model snail drum as well isn't it? And two MP44's? You sick man. Is that a 34ö as well? We are like Arnold and Danny DeVito in Twins :)
 
Yarf, (Arnold)

The snail drum (TM08) is an A.E.G. manufactured first type.
The loader is a Bing (B/N) manufactured.

The Artillery Luger is a DWM dated 1917 with unit markings with a matching serial numbered magazine.
122.R.4.6.: 122. FÜSILIER-REGIMENT (4. WURTTEMBERG), 4. KOMPAGNIE, WAFFEN NR. 6.

I quite like this piece.





Imperial marking on the magazine.



The matching magazine.



The serial number on the pistol.



Danny
 
Yarf,

I recently sold the MP40 and MP44 both 12(3) CAs----both Erma assembled guns.
I sold the Steyr assembled MP44 some time ago---it was a '#### and click' dewat.

David
 
Yeah awesome. My drum is the Bing made 2nd model. I have no loader and after a handful these things get impossible to load by hand. As you will know the loaders are a pretty penny by themselves. Your LP is in nicer shape than mine. My one has some of the smaller parts unnumbered so I'd have to call it a shooter to be fair.

My MP40 is an Erma gun as well. Shame you sold your MP44's, I hope they didn't pay the hydro bill :)
 
Two rather nice Mauser KM M1934 pistols that were not part of the photos above.
A Variation 2 with matching navy property numbers --- Estimate--3,000 procured by the Kreigsmarine.
This pistol was manufactured in 1938.





A Variation 1 KM marked pistol manufactured in 1939.
Not matching navy property marked ---but close.





From Jan Still's book Axis Pistols.

 
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Yarf,

The TM08 loaders are not easy to find.
The Bing loaders are far easier to find that the A.E.G. loaders.
If I were you I would post on Jan Still's Luger Forum that you are looking for a TM08 loader.
Look at the archives on the forum to see the difference in the originals and the fakes.
There are some very savvy guys on that forum that know about this subject.

David
 
Update to the thread, this Lafette came through the mail today from the UK. It's postwar BH used but has all original parts including the range card. The gun crew is ill-disciplined as you can see :)

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