What’s Inside a Taliban Gun Locker? (old bolt actions and beatup AKs)
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Scream at the top of your lungs... have it arrested... egads !
Back before I knew better, I gave away a Lee Enfield made in 1941 with a 4 digit serial number.
I have an Enfield that my grandfather might have carried in WW1, and it is the most accurate iron sighted military rifle I’ve ever shot. The .303 is a pretty hard hitting round too. Love it.
I had a Martini nice rifle,Single shot but I was a kid and they were cheap.
I decided I had become a collector of these old bolt action rifles after I got a nearly new 1915 Swedish Mauser for $60 a couple years ago at garage sale, and had to reconfigure my gun safe to fit it in. Using just the iron sites and surplus ammo, I can hit a 300 yard gong 2 of 5 times with my 1934 Mosin Nagant, 03 Mark 1 Springfield, 1891 Argentine Mauser, 98 Mauser, etc. My Mosin Nagant has an especially smooth trigger pull, rivaling my M1A. I have a WW I era infantry manual that says the FMJ bullet from the 03 Springfield will penetrate a three foot oak plank at 200 yards. Trying to close with a company armed with a lot of these “old” rifles should not be a pleasant experience.
I am so sorry for your loss fso301. I can still see with my minds eye the picture of the Winchester M-1 carbine covered in factory wrapping and in its original box that the seller wanted $325 for. I try not to think of the many items on which I spent $325 or more on and are now in our city’s landfill.
Make that Russian Mosin-Nagant rifles. They were first made in 1892, and some pre-Soviet ones are still in circulation.
See that green duct tape in the photo? Looks like ‘100 Mile an hour’ tape - Army issue. How did the Taliban get it? Makes me imagine our ‘friends’ there are funneling all sorts of supplies to them.
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One Way to Retire an Old Rifle
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Uh, send it to me.
I’ll clean it up and mount it over the fireplace.
Maybe that’s become an ancient and unknown practice in most of the
“civilized” world.
I am given to understand that the Afghans hand-built many different kinds of rifle, back to the Tonkin-Jazail. (CF Rudyard Kipling)
DG