the next show date for the AGCA is Oct. 10-11 2009. don't know if i'll be able to make it, but I am at home now. might be back on the road working by then though. The last show me and pop made down there was an RK show last fall, and the prices we saw were ridiculous. haven't made an agca show this ...

the THUMP..THUMP..THUMP of the mk19 is pretty cool to hear. it's really cool when they're fired from a ship as the grenades fall about 5 feet underwater before the pressure sets off the fuze. i've heard they were coming out with quick change barrel kits for the .50 cal m2, is this what's in the pic'...

two of them are tied. 2 gew 88 commission rifles. one was made at danzig, the other at loewe berlin. most of the other rifles i have collected are model 1891's, from one country or another. that sure seems to be a popular year to have adopted a new rifle. y'all have a good day, Keith

good deal! didn't the 1940 tikka's start with s/n 5000? that would make this one in the first 100 if so. y'all have a good day, Keith