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  1. What's the best thing you've found at a Pawn Shop?

    Single shot .22 rifle for $25. Fairly recently... maybe 2010? The shop was closing, getting rid of inventory.
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    Dear US Army 60s Manual Garand is NOT METRIC

    By 1964 the M1 Garand was no longer a front-line weapon for our military. We had the M14 for several years already and the M-16 was about to replace THAT. So, the M1 was to be offered to our allies around the world to help them fight the Cold War. Since the rest of the world uses the metric...
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    Moarter question

    If you get a real steel helmet (foreign ones from the Cold War era are pretty cheap) you could shoot HOLES through it, to let some light shine out. I think that would add to the Cool Factor. Or, that $17 plastic helmet could have holes drilled into it, but they would be distinguishable from...
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    Picked up another 1903 with some history

    When bolt action mil-surp rifles were being sold all over America after World War II for $10 to 15 bucks each and it was extremely common for people, including veterans, to buy them and modify them into sporters suitable for their new civilian life.... ... an example of such a gun which was...
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    Posted in the firearms discussion but figured this might be a more specific group to poke at. What do I have ???

    For easy to get ammo: some low brass small bird shot load made for trap or skeet or maybe dove & quail. Shot size between #9 and 7.5, and if the box tells you the velocity of the pellets they should be around 1000 or 1100 feet per second, not 1200+. Try to find "Low recoil" or "low noise"...
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    Posted in the firearms discussion but figured this might be a more specific group to poke at. What do I have ???

    echo..... in here... in here.
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    Posted in the firearms discussion but figured this might be a more specific group to poke at. What do I have ???

    ... like an echo in here.
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    Posted in the firearms discussion but figured this might be a more specific group to poke at. What do I have ???

    The exposed-hammer side-by-side shotgun: Actually manufactured by Crescent probably in the early 1900s up to the 1920's. If it's in good condition the only thing to think about when firing it would be how long is the chamber: is it 2 1/2 inches, 2 5/8 inches 2 9/16 inches or the modern...
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    WwII issued savage 720, s&w triple lock .44 special wondering value in its condition

    My dad was a WWII fighter pilot. He, and the gunners who were part of bomber crews, had to get training on busting clays with shotguns as part of learning to lead a moving target. Dad said that some of the guns were pumps, but he got to use a semi-auto 12 gauge that had a choke affixed on the...
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    Seeking wisdom/info, Single Barrel Remington Shotgun

    The 2.75" shell isn't really that long when it's unfired-- it only becomes that long when it is fired and the crimp is blown out. And that's why you can also put a 3 inch shotgun shell in a two and three-quarter inch shotgun chamber and you won't see the problem until you fire it.
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    Seeking wisdom/info, Single Barrel Remington Shotgun

    P.S. Back before 1910 most 12 gauge shotguns had a chamber that was only 2 1/2 or maybe 2 and 9/16 of an inch long. That's a bit shorter than the modern standard of two and three-quarter. So if you were to shoot modern crimped shotgun shells in such a short chamber the bore would be...
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    Seeking wisdom/info, Single Barrel Remington Shotgun

    Remington model 9, which were made somewhere between 1894 and 1910? P.S. Some of these would've had Damascus steel barrels, not modern fluid steel barrels, which may have been quite strong back when they were first made but are exceptionally vulnerable to hidden rusting which weakens them...
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    First time shooting Turkish Mauser

    Two my friends bought Turkish Mausers 20 years ago when they were $69 each and the corrosive 1930s Turkish ammo was five cents per round, plus shipping-- may be 7 cents total. I only shot them in the woods at targets no more than 50 yards away all from the unsupported standing position ( well...

  14. Are CMP garands worth it?

    There was no limit for a long time, or the "limit" was something like several per year, and people would buy them just to flip them. Unethical and probably illegal, but flippers, like scofflaws in general, ruin it for everybody else. They give the government a good reason to make new laws/...
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    German dagger real or replica

    There's another category of German knives and daggers other than (1) pure original wartime production ones, and (2) pure fakes. Some knife factories re-opened immediately after the war and begin producing these daggers again and they gave them dates and markings that would indicate they were...
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    1903A4 Find

    I'm reading that the Weaver 330 WAS the original scope used on this rifle, and was marked as such for the first few thousand units up until the Weaver company restamped it with a military code number instead of the commercial model 330 designation, but except for the numbers stamped on the side...
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    Colt SP1 1966 value

    I think that you could get 3,000 for it, due to its age and being in great condition, all-original, no modifications, no aftermarket parts added.
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    First M1 Carbine

    I like the light weight and slim stock of an M1 carbine. I think of it as like an AK 47 --good for a couple hundred yards; not super accurate but powerful enough to get the job done. My older brother has one that he inherited from our father who got it for $25 through a sale in the early 1960s...
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    fabrica de armas oviedo 1913...help with value.

    I doubt that you could find an original military wooden stock set, period-correct of approximately the same age, for anything less than $200, and I wouldn't put that much money in this rifle. The would probably only be worth $300 -$350 if it were all original, and I'm thinking $200 to 250 in...
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    fabrica de armas oviedo 1913...help with value.

    Yes, Spanish Mauser, 1895 "cavalry carbine." There should be 2 sling attachment points on the back end of the stock: one on the flat of the left side of the butt stock, and another one just under the pistol grip wrist area --visible in this photo. The barrel band up front should also have a...
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