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Fresnel
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:14 am
I'm just curious, what's everybody's oldest, still-functioning firearm?

I'll open the floor with my Enfield SHTLE III*, stamped 1916.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:12 am
My Winchester Model 12 is my oldest working gun. By the patent dates, this one was built sometime in the 1920's.  

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OberFeldwebel

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:44 am
Remington A-5.
I just call it that because I'm sick of saying, "It's a Remington built off of the Browning A-5 patents."

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:59 pm
1934mfg Chilean model 1895 mauser.

But I have a 1903 16" bayonet with the original scabbard, RIA, 1906.  

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Fresnel
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:34 pm
OberFeldwebel
Remington A-5.
I just call it that because I'm sick of saying, "It's a Remington built off of the Browning A-5 patents."

1909
What's that on top? I don't see a trigger.  
PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:35 pm
OberFeldwebel
Remington A-5.
I just call it that because I'm sick of saying, "It's a Remington built off of the Browning A-5 patents."

1909
What's that on top? I don't see a trigger.  

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OberFeldwebel

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:54 pm
Fresnel
OberFeldwebel
Remington A-5.
I just call it that because I'm sick of saying, "It's a Remington built off of the Browning A-5 patents."

1909
What's that on top? I don't see a trigger.


Ted Williams .22 from Sears Roebuck.

The trigger group, I think that's what you call it, wont stay on, someone lost the pins that hold it together.
stare

Not me, lol, my brother did.

It was fixed by some gunsmith and the pin fell out while out in the field.


Seems like an easy fix, except this time I'll use cotter pins to hold the pins in.  
PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:04 pm
OberFeldwebel
Remington A-5.
I just call it that because I'm sick of saying, "It's a Remington built off of the Browning A-5 patents."

1909


I'd so take that Mauser off your hands. >.>  

Inquisitor Brock


Man of the Demoneye

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:52 pm
Mossberg 185K - 1949

That or the Stevens 820B. No idea on the date, but pre '68 and it seems like it was built....not up to today's standards. Works great though. biggrin  
PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:57 pm
M1 Carbine, Inland Division of General Motors, Third Quarter of 1943

Guess mine's actually the YOUNGEST of everyone else's "old guns" here.  

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Crash Maniac

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:45 am
Russian Mosin Nagant M38 1943, I would put pictures up... but she's a little "well loved" I'm gonna get a new military stock for it. The one it came with i modified and striped, and stained.

on that note... anyone know where i can get a Original issue stock for it?  
PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:33 pm
Inquisitor Brock
OberFeldwebel
Remington A-5.
I just call it that because I'm sick of saying, "It's a Remington built off of the Browning A-5 patents."

1909


I'd so take that Mauser off your hands. >.>


But it's my Mauser...
For what I paid for it and the stuff I bought for it, reproduction sling and bayonet I'd want $400.
eek

I might have the youngest too...

My Tokarev is from 1953.


As for a replacement Mosin stock, look on eBay or gun broker, sometimes people part out their rifles in the hopes of getting more money for it.  

OberFeldwebel


Requiem ex Inferni

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:15 pm
If I could find them, two 100+ year-old revolvers, chambered in .25 and .38. One's cylinder is broken- it doesn't catch and just spins- and the other needs to be cleaned. Also, my dad won't let me fire the .38 with any modern ammo, because it'll supposedly kB.  
PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:47 pm
Requiem6661
If I could find them, two 100+ year-old revolvers, chambered in .25 and .38. One's cylinder is broken- it doesn't catch and just spins- and the other needs to be cleaned. Also, my dad won't let me fire the .38 with any modern ammo, because it'll supposedly kB.



You could try reloading and make your own underpowdered wadcutters.
:/

Hell, wadcutters are subsonic and probably safe to shoot in it.  

OberFeldwebel


Krilliad

PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:55 pm
I have my grandfathers Police 38 Special Revolver.
I am not sure of an exact year, but it was an early 40's or late 30's model.  
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