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by tonsper
Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:17 am
Forum: Welcome and Announcements
Topic: Using the New phpBB3 Upgrade
Replies: 17
Views: 17676

Re: Using the New phpBB3 Upgrade

Overall I am very disappointed with this new format. There was nothing wrong with the old format, at least from the user point of view. I am disappointed with my loss of very useful and interesting information. Good luck to you all who collect any type of rifles. I have much different opinions about...
by tonsper
Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:33 am
Forum: Milsurp After Hours
Topic: Aniversery of the site yesterday
Replies: 14
Views: 8542

Re: Aniversery of the site yesterday

How do I return to the old look on the site? This one has a lot of fancy colours but is harder to use.
by tonsper
Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:51 am
Forum: Classic British Firearms
Topic: Gun of the Month
Replies: 8
Views: 5767

Thank you for the great photos. I have one of these but without a bolt. I am in the process of making a substitute since my search over the last ten years has not had any success.
by tonsper
Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:51 am
Forum: The After Hours Funnies
Topic: Apple introduces keyboardless computing
Replies: 5
Views: 3908

The battery lasts almost 19 minutes before it needs charging....??.. "Virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit" Wow, it really is for Superman. Maybe I just do not understand it but the wheel sounds like a simple tool for simple minds.
by tonsper
Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:25 am
Forum: Classic British Firearms
Topic: No1 MkV1
Replies: 12
Views: 8247

No1 MkVI

It appears that you have a rebuilt Lee-Enfield No 1 MkVI. These were the trials and prototype versions of a rifle that later became the No4 Mk1 rifles. They were made mostly in the very late 1920s and some in the early 1930s. Most were put into storage after the troop trials. In late 1940, after Dun...
by tonsper
Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:10 am
Forum: Classic British Firearms
Topic: How can I tell when my Enfield was mfg
Replies: 3
Views: 3581

Enfield rifles, made in the US, were all made late in WWI, about 1917-18. Lee Enfield rifles of the various type were made from the late 1880s until the 1970s. Most of the Lee-Enfield and Lee-Metford rifles will have the year of manufacture of the receiver stamped on their left of right sides. There...
by tonsper
Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:57 am
Forum: Classic British Firearms
Topic: Enfield Bayonets......will some only accept the spike
Replies: 3
Views: 3538

First off, the Enfield (No 3)will only take a blade bayonet while the various Lee-Enfields (No 1 and No 4) will take a variety of them. The two types of rifles are not the same. The Lee-Enfield No 1 rifles normally take a blade type, similar to but not the same as the blade type used on the Enfield ...
by tonsper
Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:24 am
Forum: The After Hours Funnies
Topic: My Retirement Philosophy
Replies: 1
Views: 1783

Amen!
by tonsper
Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:36 pm
Forum: The Millsurp After Hours Gourmet
Topic: What's your favorite American Beer?
Replies: 12
Views: 7647

If you think that beer north of the 49th parallel is weakened, you've not tasted much of it. Yes, there are some labels of 'light' or 'lite' beer, but they are brewed for tourists from the south of North America or Europe.
by tonsper
Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:17 am
Forum: The Millsurp After Hours Gourmet
Topic: What's your favorite American Beer?
Replies: 12
Views: 7647

I do not recall ever saying that Canadian beer is all very good. We suffer from some substantial difficulties as a result of becoming larger. For example, Moosehead was named for the wrong end of the moose, a better name is Moosepiss. That is a horrible drink, better suited for mopping barn floors. ...