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The Surplus Sale at Wolverine seems to be a "Hot Topic" lately, so lets start a thread on pictures of your treasures. As is, or cleaned up for the Saturday Dance if you want to. Purchasers only, please, and if you want to make a few blurbs on your rifle, pistol, or whatever that you bought at the Wolvervine sale, then go ahead.
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Since SMELLIE let the cat out of the bag, (he likes cats,) here is the little Swedish Carbine. It was described as "scruffy" and it was. Dusty from sitting a while, and a bolt that seemed to have to be opened by pulling on it with a John Deere tractor.
It is a 1906 dated model originally, and converted to m/94-14 from an original m/94 as most of them were. The original stock has been replaced with an Elm stock, probably when originally converted, and the bolt is a Carbine bolt, but mis-matched to the rifle serial number. There is an Arsenal repair to the heel of the butt stock and the leather tab and buckle for the sling is missing from the butt stock.
I took it over to SMELLIE's house and we gave it a good look-over. A few minutes with some fine steel wool, and some oil to lubricate that sticking bolt solved the problem and it works just fine now. The bore looked like a Gopher hole, with semblances of rifling. The first patch down it came out covered with Grease. The second patch still had grease on it, and the third was fairly clean. A very hesitant peek down the bore revealed------------a shiny bore with great rifling. A fast stock cleaning worked wonders for the outside appearance.
Then SMELLIE disappeared into his lower levels, (which few souls have seen and even fewer emerged back into the sunlight,) and he brought out ------------------a m/14 Swedish Carbine Bayonet! Best of all, he gave it to me!
I suspect that SMELLIE is right in his belief that these firearms had been in storage for quite a while, without the tender loving care of the original owner of the collection. And, while there were many people who were thinking that there should have been Wal-Mart prices on the stuff, there were some VERY scarce items to fill in someone's collection. Many advanced Collectors recognized this, and were willing to pay the asking price for a needed item. I also think that there are going to be a lot of Happy Campers in the immediate future when their purchases arrive.
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The Surplus Sale at Wolverine seems to be a "Hot Topic" lately, so lets start a thread on pictures of your treasures. As is, or cleaned up for the Saturday Dance if you want to. Purchasers only, please, and if you want to make a few blurbs on your rifle, pistol, or whatever that you bought at the Wolvervine sale, then go ahead.
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Since SMELLIE let the cat out of the bag, (he likes cats,) here is the little Swedish Carbine. It was described as "scruffy" and it was. Dusty from sitting a while, and a bolt that seemed to have to be opened by pulling on it with a John Deere tractor.
It is a 1906 dated model originally, and converted to m/94-14 from an original m/94 as most of them were. The original stock has been replaced with an Elm stock, probably when originally converted, and the bolt is a Carbine bolt, but mis-matched to the rifle serial number. There is an Arsenal repair to the heel of the butt stock and the leather tab and buckle for the sling is missing from the butt stock.
I took it over to SMELLIE's house and we gave it a good look-over. A few minutes with some fine steel wool, and some oil to lubricate that sticking bolt solved the problem and it works just fine now. The bore looked like a Gopher hole, with semblances of rifling. The first patch down it came out covered with Grease. The second patch still had grease on it, and the third was fairly clean. A very hesitant peek down the bore revealed------------a shiny bore with great rifling. A fast stock cleaning worked wonders for the outside appearance.
Then SMELLIE disappeared into his lower levels, (which few souls have seen and even fewer emerged back into the sunlight,) and he brought out ------------------a m/14 Swedish Carbine Bayonet! Best of all, he gave it to me!
I suspect that SMELLIE is right in his belief that these firearms had been in storage for quite a while, without the tender loving care of the original owner of the collection. And, while there were many people who were thinking that there should have been Wal-Mart prices on the stuff, there were some VERY scarce items to fill in someone's collection. Many advanced Collectors recognized this, and were willing to pay the asking price for a needed item. I also think that there are going to be a lot of Happy Campers in the immediate future when their purchases arrive.
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And that's the Honest Truth as to what happened! 
