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Very nice rifles there guys

huntervixen wrote:Very, very nice indeed. What a fine collection of rifles, not keen on the shiney stocks re P17 and M1903 though...

Military rifles should be semi matt wood wise.....sling issue too....I agree they need re homing!

Shared custody Saddler? :cheers:

The stocks are'nt that shiney in reality, just reflections from the flash on my cheap camera.

Joe

Very nice indeed

I too feel envious of the M1903. My first ever centrefire rifle was one such Springfield Armory example over 30 years ago, and I've never lost my attraction to this model. However, my rifle was a really scruffy beat-up old thing that cost £80 back then, not a lovely one like that shown. It had a Chinese character impressed into the buttstock and while dating from somewhere around 1921 (from the serial number) had a 43 dated SA barrel installed, so I always surmised it had been refurbished and given to Chiang Kai Shek's people by the USA during late WW2 and ended up with the Nationalist Chinese in Taiwan. The barrel was terribly badly pitted (corrosive ammo presumably), but it still shot much better than it should have at up to 300 yards with handloads.

(In fact enlarging pic 1 to look at the 1903's S/N, mine wouldn't have been too far distant from this one on the production line. Mine had a serial no. that started with 917 or 927, so was a bit over a thousand rifles 'earlier' out of Springfield.)

Nice rifles one and all! I've owned all of the batch first shown except the 50-70. I picked this M1917 up awhile ago from a fellow veteran at the shooting range. It is a Remington WW2 refurb with the front handguard replaced with a birch wood handguard. Many of the WW2 refurbs had the upper/front handguard replaced due to cracking from enthusiastic close order drills.



I didn't keep it for long as has been the fate of each M1917 I've owned. I just don't care for them and when I get offered a price better than what I paid, I move the rifle along to someone who appreciates it more.

DaveB wrote:

dromia wrote:Yep seen that video but my way suits me better, I have the great fortune to have never been in a disciplined service.

Why, exactly, do you consider that fortunate?

Because I am not the sort of person that responds well to the military regime and if I was in that environment it would have been me that would have lost the contest.

I have nothing but respect for those people who can and do work in that disciplined environment but it never worked for me.