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Topic: Things I collect.
Posted By: MJ11
Subject: Things I collect.
Date Posted: May 16 2022 at 8:54am

1970's IWS bracket by Enfield with STANAG ARMS 30mm rings.




Cheers
..MJ..


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Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: May 16 2022 at 9:34am
You don't happen to have an extra you'd be willing to sell would you?...


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 16 2022 at 11:06am
Cry
Sorry I don't, there is a guy making copies at $750 I can try and look him up. I use mine often.

Wish I could help.





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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 16 2022 at 6:49pm
you got a lot of nifty bits of enfield stuff 


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: May 17 2022 at 9:15am
Originally posted by MJ11 MJ11 wrote:

Cry
Sorry I don't, there is a guy making copies at $750 I can try and look him up. I use mine often.

Wish I could help.


I guess now would be a good time to design my own version then?


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 12:25pm



A two for the price of one that came my way.


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Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 1:26pm
Nice,


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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 2:48pm


Here is one I have had for 35 years and I'm stumped.


There is a bunch of stuff in this box but it's behind a ton of junk and this was all I could fish out.
All behind a little HONDA three wheeler.


Kids 6' 3" 240 pounds now.


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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 6:24pm
Can’t imagine what that handguard is for…

Makes me wonder what will become of all the rifles and bits I’ve collected will end up….


Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 10:56pm
me too , but then im more used to fully assembled 


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 1:23pm
Originally posted by A square 10 A square 10 wrote:

me too , but then im more used to fully assembled 


OK me too. It's been a long time but I can provide.




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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 1:28pm
That’s the rifle the handguard is for…


Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 2:01pm
A G43? its on my bucket list but have yet to find one I can afford.
Must have been hard to be a nation with their heads up there butts, they should have came out shooting with these instead of a WWI rifle, always too little too late, not that I wanted the Naz`si to have the edge, but you know what I mean.
Nice piece of history, my fav go to rifle in Call to Duty.
cheers


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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 8:40pm
Angry
Don't love them either but they were the premium infantry of their time.
Poorly politically led.

What a waste of fine infantry in lost causes.

The training cycles were so short but severe and punitive could be a death sentence.

I was surprised that in the 1960's we were training for WW1 with over the top and under the wire and live machine guns.  The last had two casualties on dead. What did that letter sound like to the families.

Then we were sent to the Central High Lands along the Cambodian border. One night busting bush we fell out onto a 20 foot wide hard scrabble road. And could smell exhaust from diesel motors. I crossed the road and got into the bush and saw a lite tank go by. A few trucks passed and we busted bush for at least ten of the longest minutes of my life.

You never know what fate will give you.




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Posted By: bubba ho tep
Date Posted: May 21 2022 at 11:07am
Looks like a durafol synthetic G43 handguard. Either laminate or durafol type handguard is stupid $$$. Basically since G/K43's are so delicate and shed parts often such items are top $$$. I bet you could put that out at $350 and get it. It's that crazy on g/k43 bits.


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 21 2022 at 5:46pm
Originally posted by bubba ho tep bubba ho tep wrote:

Looks like a durafol synthetic G43 handguard. Either laminate or durafol type handguard is stupid $$$. Basically since G/K43's are so delicate and shed parts often such items are top $$$. I bet you could put that out at $350 and get it. It's that crazy on g/k43 bits.


The last time I had it in my hand was in the 1990's and I was considering an offer of $400. Most I has seen had the front or the rear damaged. I think had sat on it from a 1944 DUV Berlin Lubecker G43. I sold to buy one of my first #4T's. I had put one of the Walther laminated wood hand guards in it's place. Put it away and out of sight with some other G43 stuff and forgot about it. Now I have stumbled on the box last week.

I had five G43's in my wasted youth at the time in the mid 1970's with two babies and one on the way I didn't have over $400 in any of the rifles as $400 was a big number at the time. Two I sold for #4T's way down the road never got more the $600 ea. Today it is crazy and junk is $1000. I see guys on the net with a table full of 99% rifles and wounder how lucky I was to get out with the shirt still on my back.

Here is some of the other stuff from the box and there seems to some in paper bags covered with rat pee and poo at the bottom that I'm leaving till Monday to deal with. I was shocked to see what magazines are going for and some of these guys today have dozens. Magazine pouches I see one guy with 20 and they were $350 years ago till a giant stash was found in Poland and Ukraine around 2000.

 


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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 21 2022 at 5:55pm
Originally posted by MJ11 MJ11 wrote:

Angry
Don't love them either but they were the premium infantry of their time.
Poorly politically led.

What a waste of fine infantry in lost causes.

The training cycles were so short but severe and punitive could be a death sentence.

I was surprised that in the 1960's we were training for WW1 with over the top and under the wire and live machine guns.  The last had two casualties on dead. What did that letter sound like to the families.

Then we were sent to the Central High Lands along the Cambodian border. One night busting bush we fell out onto a 20 foot wide hard scrabble road. And could smell exhaust from diesel motors. I crossed the road and got into the bush and saw a lite tank go by. A few trucks passed and we busted bush for at least ten of the longest minutes of my life.

You never know what fate will give you.




no you dont , but back then you pretty much knew where you might be , i wish it had been different - life delivers what we get , 

you are so right - "What a waste of fine infantry in lost causes." , 50,000 american lives lost for a lost cause , then the survivors to get treated as they were coming home , its an unforgivable moment in US history 


Posted By: Enfield trader
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 9:19pm
You always have good stuff MJ


Posted By: terrylee
Date Posted: May 24 2022 at 1:34am
Not the best rifle in my collection, but one of the more interesting. Destroyed by the British during the Boer War and resurrected by a tribesman in the NE Transvaal.




Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 24 2022 at 6:49pm

terrylee if only they could talk.


2K after Simo's rifle in the next run.


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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 28 2022 at 8:40pm
Originally posted by Enfield trader Enfield trader wrote:

You always have good stuff MJ


You had a big hand in this. What 15 years ?


Take bow ! !


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Posted By: Enfield trader
Date Posted: May 29 2022 at 8:41am
Had to be closer to 20 years now - I should have kept that one as even with the cut barrel it was a shooter 

Maybe some day I can get it back 😉


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: June 04 2022 at 8:14pm

Anything is possible but you should have seen the bill for the new re barrel and I had the the new old stock 1944 barrel. And the Peter Laidler's re-furbed 1945 #32 scope with a new erector set and lens set.

As soon as I'm able I will tune the 1945 magazine up as it's a single shot now.

Roger Payne provided the bracket through one of his friends as he has quit production recently.Like three years ago after 35 years of making the best brackets. I have only had to scrape one for range. with .003" for right wind age. That says lot over the years.


There are a lot of built in tuning moves in the copies but Roger's brackets are within 1 MOA most of the time.


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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: June 06 2022 at 7:44pm

1936 NRA TROPHY rifle.





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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: June 06 2022 at 8:51pm
is that an M1922 ? i have one of those , mine is far from a collector version , but it shoots real fine and i like it a lot , 


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: June 09 2022 at 9:40pm
Wink1936 NRA 3006 Trophy rifles.

I still have the original front sight sleeve and blade.

The tube or glob front is useless. No mater what the reticule I tried covers the center of the target. I tried the whole range of inserts and never found any comfort or accuracy. From 100 to 300 i failed the course.




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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 10 2022 at 7:48am
That's interesting, we had circular retcules where they were sized to form a "doughnut" round the black!
Didn't they?



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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: June 13 2022 at 12:00pm





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Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: June 13 2022 at 12:01pm
You planning on using that or is it up for sale by any chance...


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: June 17 2022 at 7:36pm

7.62X51 Spanish FR-8's




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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: June 21 2022 at 10:33am


Two brand new 91/59 carbines.




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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: June 30 2022 at 3:41pm








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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: June 30 2022 at 8:01pm
radway green ammo , ive got a couple ammo cans of that here , great ammo , mine is probably about that same vintage too , 


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: July 01 2022 at 6:32am
Wink
Almost had this can for 22 years + they were $48 each and doled out a few at a time for a special rifle and I think there are only two cartons left in there.

Really great stuff in the right rifle.

Cheers
How are you doing ?






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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: July 01 2022 at 8:34pm
im good my friend , how are you , not PM'd in a bit but will rectify soon , be safe 


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: July 03 2022 at 2:04pm


Living the new life as best A square. Seeing all the G- Kids I can. Travel is getting hard and expensive. Service is bad but it's all we have these days.

Hoping to get released to have a range day.


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Posted By: terrylee
Date Posted: July 04 2022 at 12:55am
The first and last





Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: July 04 2022 at 10:48pm
nice to see side by side , thanks terry 


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: July 05 2022 at 11:29am


Very good Terry and thanks for sharing.

I have a few I would like to share but we have had some serious release of private owners collections in my state putting every one at risk. Judges, Police and Private Citizens too.

Be well and safe.




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