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Sapper740 
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 Posted: September 30 2023 at 4:50am |
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Check out this video by Ian McCollum regarding the prototype Ishapore "Jungle Carbine".
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Shamu
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Posted: October 01 2023 at 4:13pm |
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Check your forend! Really! Many of these forends were cut down with a chop saw. Then glued back together! If they'd used a glued & screwed dowel it might have been nice, Particularly with a cross screwed bolt or something, maybe a piece of that "threaded wire"! They are kinda kewl I admit, I have a Sporterised No5 Mk1 "Jungle Carbine", I call it my "Goobermint model Sporter" & I actually like it a lot. Unfortunately many of the post-war conversions weren't that well done & I have seen the entire front wood & muzzle cap go "downrange" when the glue fails!   |
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: October 01 2023 at 5:57pm |
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while that video is very entertaining , i question a lot of what was given in info , first i never heard of an ishapore jungle carbine , only the brit and ausie , i suspect they might have developed something far later using early production parts donors , i also suspect gibbs and santa fe might have done this - i dont care what an auction house might say , it aint necessarily true as the moody blues said , prove this with researched data ,
the no 6 rifle was an austrailian rifle , second the bayonet lug they show is the one developed for the no2 and no2A! of a lot later date than the 40s , i question the nomenclature , but as always i could be wrong as i have been in the past , he references those but i still question this as its never been discussed on any forum now referenced in any reference book im aware of not that it couldnt have been overlooked ,
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Shamu
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Posted: October 01 2023 at 6:17pm |
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"Prototype" as in we tried this, but it never went into production.
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: October 02 2023 at 2:56pm |
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Saw in another thread you were headed for the range last weekend - so? How did it go?
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