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50 years of battle rifles
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:17 pm
by Pilgrim
I need a 1903 - BAD !
http://www.dfandkf.com/50years/50years_1.jpg[/pic]
editted to add:
Top: April 1944 Sprinfield Garand M1
Next: Early (first 77,000) Winchester Carbine
Next: Eddystone Model of 1917
Next: Remington 1903A3
Bottom: 1898 Springfield Krag .30-40
All are shot as often as I can.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:59 pm
by dhtaxi
Very nice is the bottom one a Ross
Great collection
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:20 pm
by Niner
Dhtaxi, that bottom one looks like a Krag Model 1892.
Looks like an ace high straight flush as a hand already. But you know the CMP still....I think...have a few 1903's. Better get to work on it before they are gone.
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:15 am
by dhtaxi
Yep I think you are right
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:09 am
by Pilgrim
Close but no cigar - 1898 Springfield Krag
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:50 am
by SgtJethro
Nice collection, but it never ends.
Once you get the '03, you still have room for the Springfield Trapdoors.
Jethro
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:49 am
by Pilgrim
You mean like this one? It just didn't fit in with the 50 year theme !
http://www.dfandkf.com/trapdoorsmallx.jpg[/pic]
Well
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:38 am
by Niner
At least I knew it was a Krag.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:32 am
by A square 10
very nice indeed , been wanting to stray into a trapdoor myself - yours is beautiful - but i know so little about them at this juncture that i fear making a bad investment , so some research is in order , what manufacturer of M1917 are you showing us ?
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:50 am
by Pilgrim
A square 10 wrote:very nice indeed , been wanting to stray into a trapdoor myself - yours is beautiful - but i know so little about them at this juncture that i fear making a bad investment , so some research is in order , what manufacturer of M1917 are you showing us ?
It's all Eddystone except for a Remington stock.
I got the gun basically as a barrelled receiver, with a cut down stock and no bolt and accumulated the rest of the parts. The barrel and receiver were in near like new shape. I got a brand new, never before used, in the 'white', just off the lathe but set in a corner for 90 years, NOS Remington stock and decided to use it becasue it was so much better than anything else I would ever find.
before:
http://www.dfandkf.com/1917bubba1.jpg[/pic]
after:
http://www.dfandkf.com/17tree.jpg[/pic]
I've got about $260 invested in it. It's a great shooter.
The trapdoor is an 1884...a lot of fun to shoot !
