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#351 Post by Sixshot6 »

dromia wrote:
dave_303 wrote:
If you don't mind me asking Dromia, why do you have a distaste for re-enactors?
Drives the de-act market.
speaking of which, I was at my local park and they had a ww1 festival type thing and they had a tent and stall showing off the weapons of ww1. They were all deacts and I noticed something that you are going to spew at Dromia (Sim my spit out his stottie cake too lol ). There was a Lewis gun and two lees. One of the Lees was a Long Lee. There is no way in god's green county of South Yorkshire that those were still on Issue in WW1? Right? I didn't correct the guy as there were too many dogs around and you never know when walking a bored, hot 10 year old rotweiler, which small yapper is going to have a go and make my day turn to crap. But my original point stands, am I right to say they were in the wrong showing off a long lee alongside a smle?
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#352 Post by Sim G »

Yorkshire is not Gods country, it's South....
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?

Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
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#353 Post by Sim G »

dromia wrote:
Drives the de-act market.
I concur.
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?

Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
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#354 Post by Sixshot6 »

Sim G wrote:Yorkshire is not Gods country, it's South....
But I am right about a long lee not belonging in a WW1 set? We can argue about the rest later on.
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#355 Post by saddler »

Sixshot6 wrote:...am I right to say they were in the wrong showing off a long lee alongside a smle?
NO - they were correct. Still very much in use in WW1.

Shortages of .303 rifles meant they used anything that they could get.
We even issued Japanese Arisaka rifles to some troops due to not enough .303's to go around...
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#356 Post by Sixshot6 »

saddler wrote:
Sixshot6 wrote:...am I right to say they were in the wrong showing off a long lee alongside a smle?
NO - they were correct. Still very much in use in WW1.

Shortages of .303 rifles meant they used anything that they could get.
We even issued Japanese Arisaka rifles to some troops due to not enough .303's to go around...
Any pics of Arisaka use at all? And thanks for correcting. How widespread was P14 use also?

I have realized also that 303 bullets could be used to handload 7.7 arisaka ammo also.
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#357 Post by Sim G »

saddler wrote: We even issued Japanese Arisaka rifles to some troops due to not enough .303's to go around...

Really? Every day's a school day...
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?

Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
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#358 Post by Sixshot6 »

Sim G wrote:
saddler wrote: We even issued Japanese Arisaka rifles to some troops due to not enough .303's to go around...

Really? Every day's a school day...
wiki seems to say used until 1921. It was the 6.5 version I've just realised also.
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#359 Post by saddler »

Google is your friend, as long as you know how to spot what rifle is what from the muzzle layout, etc.
P14 - VERY widespread - but as soon as the war was over they were mothballed (aside from the "T" models with scopes, as they carried on through early WW2 - or through as far as Korea in sniper Aussie usage)
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#360 Post by dromia »

Sim G wrote:
Really? Every day's a school day...
More like a Borstal day.
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