Post pics of your WWI & WWII Rifles

[nehalemguy]

Springfield M1 dated Feb 1945. Bit of a mixmaster and the previous owner did hideous shellac job on the stock which I'm not quite sure what to do about.

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Strip that baby down and refinish it right. Any cartouches on the stock?

-E-

 

[raftman]

Strip that baby down and refinish it right. Any cartouches on the stock?

-E-

None that I could find.

 

[Mikej]

None that I could find.

There's no circle P stamp just behind the trigger guard? Very faint maybe because of sanding? Another one, small square, 3/8"-1/2" just above the trigger guard on the left side?

 

[raftman]

There's no circle P stamp just behind the trigger guard? Very faint maybe because of sanding? Another one, small square, 3/8"-1/2" just above the trigger guard on the left side?

Nope, not that I can see.

 

[WAW44]

Nope, not that I can see.

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One way or another, can's really screw it up more. Some Chestnut Ridge stain and some oil will do the stock right.

 

[raftman]

One way or another, can's really screw it up more. Some Chestnut Ridge stain and some oil will do the stock right.

Definitely right about that. Just a couple more pics to illustrate the quality of bubba's workmanship... they didn't even remove or mask off the hardware (or at least did a very poor job masking), and also note how runny the application.

 

[Rdd1973]

I'm stealing this idea from orygun.
In a different thread he suggested a thread should be started on WWI & WWII rifles.
So...
Please feel free to post pictures of WWI & WWII rifles and related accoutrements.
( Web gear and leather , bayonets etc...)
Heck even period pictures of your relatives with the firearms they were issued would be neat to see.

Post 'em if you got 'em!
Andy

 

[cityrice]

Winchester M1917 SN 50XXX ~Nov.1917

Underside Receiver Cartouche Markings

 

[GrayGoose]

This is one of my C&R specimens, an Austrian Steyr M95 Mannlicher Carbine w/ bayonet & scabbard. Cal 8x56R. Bought this one from Century Arms in 2007 for $133, shipped to my door w/ my C&R license. Haven't looked at what they're going for now.

 

[raftman]

Same Garand as before. I took the lazy man's approach. Since the shellacked stock was unmarked and the rifle is a mixmaster anyways, I just replaced the stock set with another apparently unmarked one, but at least it's not a hideous one... so at least there's now at least some pride of ownership.

 

[tac]

Same Garand as before. I took the lazy man's approach. Since the shellacked stock was unmarked and the rifle is a mixmaster anyways, I just replaced the stock set with another apparently unmarked one, but at least it's not a hideous one... so at least there's now at least some pride of ownership.

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Some oil on the poor dry stock wouldn't hurt, surely?

 

[rdb241]

Just a shooter that I built, not a collector gun by any means. I started with just a receiver and scrounged all the parts. Fun little plinker.

 

[WAW44]

M39 SOV replica , 44 VKT with scope and mount from Accumounts. Work by Tim at Copeland Gun Works.

 

[tac]

I'm impressed with all the guns I've seen here used in real war situations.

I have such a gun, too, but it was used in a war where civilians who thought that they were right fought an Empire that KNEW it was right.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - the Second Boer War.

My 7mm Mauser carbine, made by DWM of Berlin, later to gain fame as the makers of the Luger pistol, was shot extensively and with great malice aforethought, at British, Canadian and Australian troops, as well as a few natives working for the occupying forces. It was finally surrendered to a member of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry the day after they'd had their clocks cleaned by a couple of hundred Boers. It all went t*t's up for the Boer Kommando the next day, 10th May, 1901, and the upshot was a wholesale surrender that took place on the stoep of the farmhouse at Korannafontein Farm in Natal. The former owner Mijneer Piet Huijsen was led away into captivity for a while, and his little carbine, serial #6691*, passed into history, only to re-surface in 2006 when it came into my ownership.

With little or no hope, I made contact with the historian at the Anglo-Boerse Oorlog Museum in Bloemfontein, only to be put on to the current owner of the farmstead who was a historian of some note in his spare time. From him I obtained ALL the information I related to you, including the POW serial number, and a brief history of the man- who was a diamond-washer from Klipspring, born Pieter Huijsen on the Dutch/German border and emigrated to seek his fortune in South Africa.




*and here is the same model from 'Forgotten Weapons' by Ian McCullom, just THREE digits from mine.....

Thanks to the generosity of a fellow poster on this site, I can shoot it with the 175gr flat-base bullet that was the original load for this little carbine, and VERY efficacious it is, too. I can reliably report that 47gr of Vihtavuori N165 gives you all that you might expect from shooting it in a gun that weighs just over five pounds.

It was one of two thousand - 5000 - 7000 - made by DWM in early Summer of 1897 for the ZAR - Zuid Afrikaanse Republik - and shipped to Southern Africa in August of that year.

Here is the 'Forgotten weapons' instalment -

My carbine can also be seen in Volume 2, page 264 of Dave C George's twin-volume treatise on carved Boer rifles.

 

[Phantom Man]

I'm impressed with all the guns I've seen here used in real war situations.

I have such a gun, too, but it was used in a war where civilians who thought that they were right fought an Empire that KNEW it was right.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - the Second Boer War.

My 7mm Mauser carbine, made by DWM of Berlin, later to gain fame as the makers of the Luger pistol, was shot extensively and with great malice aforethought, at British, Canadian and Australian troops, as well as a few natives working for the occupying forces. It was finally surrendered to a member of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry the day after they'd had their clocks cleaned by a couple of hundred Boers. It all went t*t's up for the Boer Kommando the next day, and the upshot was a wholesale surrender that took place on the stoep of the farmhouse at Korannafontein Farm in Natal. The former owner Mijneer Piet Huijsen was led away into captivity for a while, and his little carbine, serial #6691*, passed into history, only to re-surface in 2006 when it came into my ownership.

With little or no hope, I made contact with the historian at the Anglo-Boerse Oorlog Museum in Bloemfontein, only to be put on to the current owner of the farmstead who was a historian of some note in his spare time. From him I obtained ALL the information I related to you, including the POW serial number, and a brief history of the man- who was a diamond-washer from Klipspring, born Pieter Huijsen on the Dutch/German border and emigrated to seek his fortune in South Africa.

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and here is the same model from 'Forgotten Weapons' by Ian McCullom, just THREE digits from mine.....
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Thanks to the generosity of a fellow poster on this site, I can shoot it with the 175gr flat-base bullet that was the original load for this little carbine, and VERY efficacious it is, too. I can reliably report that 47gr of Vihtavuori N165 gives you all that you might expect from shooting it in a gun that weighs just over five pounds.

Here is the 'Forgotten weapons' instalment -

Awesome find tac..!

 

[tac]

Awesome find tac..!

Ja, dat was!

Om kontak te maak met die boer, kleinseun van die Dominie wat al die oorgawe dokumente geskryf het, was 'n ware bonus vir my, soos hy baie min Engels gepraat het. Dit het my gedwing om my kennis van Afrikaans te verbeter!

 

[Mikej]

I'm impressed with all the guns I've seen here used in real war situations.

I have such a gun, too, but it was used in a war where civilians who thought that they were right fought an Empire that KNEW it was right.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - the Second Boer War.

My 7mm Mauser carbine, made by DWM of Berlin, later to gain fame as the makers of the Luger pistol, was shot extensively and with great malice aforethought, at British, Canadian and Australian troops, as well as a few natives working for the occupying forces. It was finally surrendered to a member of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry the day after they'd had their clocks cleaned by a couple of hundred Boers. It all went t*t's up for the Boer Kommando the next day, and the upshot was a wholesale surrender that took place on the stoep of the farmhouse at Korannafontein Farm in Natal. The former owner Mijneer Piet Huijsen was led away into captivity for a while, and his little carbine, serial #6691*, passed into history, only to re-surface in 2006 when it came into my ownership.

With little or no hope, I made contact with the historian at the Anglo-Boerse Oorlog Museum in Bloemfontein, only to be put on to the current owner of the farmstead who was a historian of some note in his spare time. From him I obtained ALL the information I related to you, including the POW serial number, and a brief history of the man- who was a diamond-washer from Klipspring, born Pieter Huijsen on the Dutch/German border and emigrated to seek his fortune in South Africa.

View attachment 1130118
View attachment 1130119
View attachment 1130122
*and here is the same model from 'Forgotten Weapons' by Ian McCullom, just THREE digits from mine.....
View attachment 1130123
Thanks to the generosity of a fellow poster on this site, I can shoot it with the 175gr flat-base bullet that was the original load for this little carbine, and VERY efficacious it is, too. I can reliably report that 47gr of Vihtavuori N165 gives you all that you might expect from shooting it in a gun that weighs just over five pounds.

Here is the 'Forgotten weapons' instalment -

My carbine can also be seen in Volume 2, page 264 of Dave C George's twin-volume treatise on carved Boer rifles.

Whelp,,,,I'm happy to announce, that for this day...YOU WIN THE INTERNET!!

Take a bow.

 

[jackrv]

As usual for Mr. Tac, a very beautiful weapon from history.

 

[tac]

As usual for Mr. Tac, a very beautiful weapon from history.

Baie dankie, Minheer!

 

[bwpaull]

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