Show us your Guns!

[EriCal]

Winchester 92, .45 LC; Winchester 94 30-30; Browning 65 .218 B

 

[EriCal]

S & W Single. .22. Ten inch barrel.

 

[EriCal]

Three Remingtons. 40X Mountain; 40X repeating Sporter; 504C

 

[Oldsarge]

If I ever won a lottery, assuming I ever bought a ticket, a G&H sporter in '06 would be high on my want list. I just love those things . . .

 

[EriCal]

Thank you Sarge. I really like the NRA Sporters best of all. I guess the ideal would be an NRA Sporter than was upgraded by G & H.
This is a Sedgely:

 

[Renault]

Grade III Belgian, purchased in about 1965. In original box, never fired.

EriCal,

I worked on a Grade III just like yours the other day for an old rancher! It's his regular .22!!!!!!! Carries it in his truck!

As for those G&H '03's........ I officially HATE you!!!!!!!

I'm with Sarge on them!!!!! They are awesome!!!! Can't get too much more classic then those pieces!

Renault

 

[jkingrph]

Winchester 92, .45 LC; Winchester 94 30-30; Browning 65 .218 B

I have two of that model Win. 94 in my safe. One is definetly going to my grandson. I shoot mine, with cast bullets and it's a shooter, love that tang sight with that 26" barrel.

I also have a couple of the Win 1895 Repros, in .405 Win. One highly engraved and inlaid like that Browning, only more gold outlining the frame. The other is a plain model. The dealer that got them from me was only supposed to get a standard model, but did not know what he could get so ordered both and got both. I started to purchase only the plain one and wound up with both. The plain one has had one of the Lyman #21 repro sights by Providence tool, that was made specifically for the large frame levers installed

I am envious of those G&H and NRA sporters, beautiful guns. I have one S&W mod 41, with two barrels, one is a 7 3/8 target barrel, the other a 5 or 5 1/2" field barrel. It's a fantastic shooter, I have thought of gettin another barrel set up for a scope and see what I could do with it.

 

[EriCal]

Smith & Wesson Schofield.

 

[Oldsarge]

Thank you Sarge. I really like the NRA Sporters best of all. I guess the ideal would be an NRA Sporter than was upgraded by G & H.
This is a Sedgely:

Gorgeous, positively gorgeous!

 

[MPicciotto]

Went into my local gun shop and there in the rack of misc Mil-Surps was this Finn. There was no price tag on it. I was told a price for it that was the same as they ask for their 91/30 refurbs by the son of the owner (the owner I guess was at lunch). I said I'd be back with some money, came back and bought it. While doing the paperwork the owner asks his son how much he sold it for. When told him the owner sighed and said to him "You know that's not a regular 91/30." But didn't ask me to pay more, he turned instead to handle another customer. When I was all done before leaving I caught his attention and asked him if I hurt him bad by getting it for the price I did. He said not to worry about it, that I got a good deal and to enjoy the rifle. So let me say publicly here that although Chesapeake Guns in Grasonville, MD tend to have higher prices then I like to pay I will certainly go back in the future. The owner is a stand up guy!

The gun appears to me to be an M-28 in what is mostly an M-27 stock. It was finger jointed to what looks to be an M-28 forestock. i say this because of the bevels around the front barrel band. Also the front sight seems to be an M-27 sight. Bolt and barrel serial numbers match. Buttplate is from Izhevsk, not sure yet about the magazine floor plate, at least one part of the bolt assembly is from Tula (I can see the star). I have not taken apart the gun at all, nor cleaned anything yet.

Matt

 

[DeaconKC]

Matt, that is a beauty, and congrats on having a gun shop with class!

 

[MPicciotto]

It looks even better now that I've started working on the stock with some Kramers Antique Finish Restorer. GREAT STUFF that Kramers. I also took apart the gun and cleaned the cosmoline out of it. Apparently after the end of the hostilities these guns were lathered in cosmoline and set aside for a very bad day (not refurbished and stored like the Soviet guns or I believe newer Finnish rifles but merely put into storage), it's a design from 1928 so by the late 40's it was quite an old design having been replaced by newer designs built on the same action. This example after coming to the US in the late 80's was never properly cleaned by the former owner, under the wood the barrel and action was caked full of cosmoline, as was the magazine well, I honestly don't know how it fired, if it fired. While I had it apart I was able to determine the barrel date of 1928 and the tang date (receiver) as 1915. In case your wondering the receiver, rear sight and other parts were purchased by Finland from the Russians in the mid-20's to build these rifles. The barrel came from a Swiss firm. Finland at the time not having much in the way of domestic firearm manufacturing capabilities. That's why you see two sets of numbers on the rear sight. the crossed out ones are the measurements in Arshin, an Imperial Russian era measurement comparable to a yard or meter in it's usage, but I think measuring about 28".

Matt

 

[DeaconKC]

Yup, 28". I have had the best results using odorless mineral spirits on large scale cosmo cutting projects.

 

[Effingham]

Well, it's here.

In 1945, when dad came home from WW2, he had a Czech "Pistole modell 27" (now generally called a CZ-27). After Germany annexed Czechoslovakia, they took the CZ27 and turned it into the standard side arm of the police and much of the Wehrmacht.

After my dad died in 1967, mom didn't want guns in the house -- and we only had the one. Part of it, I think, was that I was only six at the time, too. So she gave it to my dad's sister and brother-in-law. When they passed on, the gun ended up in the hands of my cousin.

I just today got it back, complete with holster and spare magazine.

I doubt it's been fired or disassembled since the early sixties, so I plan to take it to a gunsmith for a once-over, and then take it out and put a few magazines of .32 through it in dad's honor.

It feels kind of strange -- I haven't seen this since I was five or six, and it really feels strange to have it back. Dad brought this home from The War. Dammit, some smoke from my pipe seems to have gotten into my eyes.

I need a scotch.

Tony

 

[DeaconKC]

Tony, it took me 20+ years to get my dad's old 30-30 back from a cousin. I understand completely!

 

[MPicciotto]

Tony,

What a great story. I'm really glad to hear you were able to secure the firearm your father brought back from WW2. Shed a tear, have a glass of Scotch and be as emotional as you want.

Matt

 

[MPicciotto]

Went to the Baltimore Antique Arms show today...

I'm not single and independently wealthy so no, this did not come home with me. But how seriously cool is a harpoon gun??

Matt

 

[Oldsarge]

A fully equipped harpoon gun, at that!

 

[matrioshka]

Matt,

That beats the M39 I just picked up. Be warned, Mosins mate. It starts with two, only two...

 

[Effingham]

Tony,

What a great story. I'm really glad to hear you were able to secure the firearm your father brought back from WW2. Shed a tear, have a glass of Scotch and be as emotional as you want.

Matt

Thanks.

You know, I'm usually not that... well, okay, I *am* emotional. And living in my folks' old house now has produced more than one misty-eyed, drink-encouraged moment. (An example: although my mom got rid of most of dad's things after he died, she kept his golf shoes, and no matter where we moved over the years, they lived under her bed -- for FORTY YEARS. When I cleared out her room at the retirement community, sure enough -- there they were. They now sit in *my* foyer next to the umbrella stand, as if waiting for dad to put them on and go golfing again.)

This gun was a great influence on my Kleenex purchases this week.