I would love to have your Enfield!
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Thanks, I’m thankful to have found her in decent shape. I’ve fired her with a powder charge but haven’t tried her with a minie ball yet. Waiting for the weather to warm up a bit first.
That bula m14 for $1500 is as nice as example I’ve ever seen on odt
Definitely!
MILSURP question
Looking at a Mauser HSc that has an eagle over N matking. I found this description on the internet and thought I'd ask any ODT experts:
The Eagle over N proof mark on the trigger guard is a Nazi proof that replaced the Crown over N in late 1941 and ended with the end of the war. This military acceptance mark indicates that this pistol was issued to the German Army instead of the police.
Looking at a Mauser HSc that has an eagle over N matking. I found this description on the internet and thought I'd ask any ODT experts:
The Eagle over N proof mark on the trigger guard is a Nazi proof that replaced the Crown over N in late 1941 and ended with the end of the war. This military acceptance mark indicates that this pistol was issued to the German Army instead of the police.
Found it. I have one Army Waffenamt 135 and one commercial
Jan C. Still, in his 1986 book Axis Pistols Volume II, established a method of categorizing HSc pistols according to the acceptance marks used by the military and police stamped on the left side of the trigger guard. These categories are:
Jan C. Still, in his 1986 book Axis Pistols Volume II, established a method of categorizing HSc pistols according to the acceptance marks used by the military and police stamped on the left side of the trigger guard. These categories are:
- Commercial: By law, all pistols that were produced during the war will typically have the standard government nitro proof mark stamped on frame, slide and barrel, which was the eagle over N. The left side of the trigger guard will typically be blank on commercial pistols. All guns provided to the military and police should have the nitro proof, though very late in the war the proof house was closed and some guns may not have been proofed.
- Army: HSc pistols used by the German army are marked with a Waffenamt acceptance stamp in the form of an eagle over 655, eagle over 135, or eagle over WaA135 on the rear of the left trigger guard where it meets the frame.
- Navy: HSc pistols used by the German navy (Kriegsmarine) are marked with a Marinewaffenamt acceptance stamp in the form of an eagle over MIII/8 on the rear of the left trigger guard where it meets the frame ane/or an eagle holding a circled swastika over the letter M property mark on the front grip strap.
- Police: HSc pistols used by the German police are marked, on the rear of the left trigger guard where it meets the frame, with an eagle over a circled X, with an L or an F below and to the right.
Good old days
Wow!! That hats a lot of patches!!
