The Great Firearms-Thread

[TASSER]

I have a original box with some .30 Carbine cartriges which I simply keep in my showcase since my guns are locked away....

Oh btw If one of you euros come across a nice Gewehr 88, let me know it, i'm looking forward to buy one.

My gunsafe
http://imgup.com/data/images/19119.jpg

Very, very nice GuinNess. I admire a man who has more than one M1. I've got a gorgeous 1954 H&R, but would like to pick up a nice, beat up, SA rifle from the war years, for nostalgia's sake.

Those MG's operational? If so, what state do you live in and are there any houses for sale in your area?

[siben]

I have a original box with some .30 Carbine cartriges which I simply keep in my showcase since my guns are locked away....

Oh btw If one of you euros come across a nice Gewehr 88, let me know it, i'm looking forward to buy one.

My gunsafe
http://imgup.com/data/images/19119.jpg

Very, very nice GuinNess. I admire a man who has more than one M1. I've got a gorgeous 1954 H&R, but would like to pick up a nice, beat up, SA rifle from the war years, for nostalgia's sake.

Those MG's operational? If so, what state do you live in and are there any houses for sale in your area?

To answer in GuinNess his place, he is not from the US.

Personaly i like his greasegun the most.

[GuinNess]

Very, very nice GuinNess. I admire a man who has more than one M1. I've got a gorgeous 1954 H&R, but would like to pick up a nice, beat up, SA rifle from the war years, for nostalgia's sake.

Those MG's operational? If so, what state do you live in and are there any houses for sale in your area?

I live in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, here you can get war years Garands easily, but they are expensive...

I have a collectors license, that's why every gun in my collection is functional. I've tested them all (Grease Gun is a lot of fun  ) except the MG53 because I need 8X57 mg-ammo and those are rare....

[siben]

Talking about MG ammo, they have a primer which is sealed better compared to rifle ammunition, but does it really make a big difference while shooting? Will your normal 8mm fail?

[GuinNess]

Talking about MG ammo, they have a primer which is sealed better compared to rifle ammunition, but does it really make a big difference while shooting? Will your normal 8mm fail?

it's not the primer that make the difference, it is the case that is shorter than a normal (rifle) 8x57JS ammo. That is because of the high rof of the MG42 and MG34. If you try normal 8x57 in an MG42 it WILL jam because the room between the barrel and the case is too tight and the case can't expand enough. Just look at all those YouTube Videos where you see american hillbilly's shooting MG42 and jamming all the time 

[siben]

How do you recognize MG munition anyway? All the primers have been "shrunken" into place, with the exception of the Prvi and WW1 bullet.
From left to right:
1937, 1937 AP, 1941 AP-T, 2001prvi, 1944, 1940, 1918

[GuinNess]

MG ammo has a RED marking on the lower part of the bullet and around the primer.
Rifle ammo has a BLUE marking instead.

http://www.mausershooters.org/k98k/8_ident.html

See the picture where it says on a cartigebox "für MG", that means "for MG". That should prove it

[siben]

Still not clear to me, unless you have a box that says it is for me. all my ammunition has nothing visible or a red band.

On the 20th i will go to a buddy that has a lot of original 8mm, will see what he has there.

[ksl94]

I am wondering what the most gun-friendly country in Europe is. I am especially interested in one that protects these rights, as in a second amendement.

[VonMudra]

Switzerland.

[siben]

Was AP ammunition used in normal rifles for normal combat. How about AP-T?
Picture just for reference, the clean ones are German 7.92x57 1938 and 1944 dated AP-T, found in water proof mg42 ammunition box, the dirty ones are 30-06 AP from 1943 in a not so water proof .50 ammunition box. Some of the German ones do show a 2cm scratch so they might have been linked one time. Since the US used cloth belts nothing is visible on these ones to indicate they where linked once. All these where found in a barn by a friend of mine. These where about half of the rounds found, the rest was regular Ss and SmE. I am a bit surprised by the 50/50 split.

[Hockeywarrior]

Wow how did I not know this thread exists? Well time to post some recent videos of my arsenal. Some of these might be repeats from the Militaria thread so sorry if you've already seen some of them.

Video of friends and I shooting my friend's M1 Garand (which he's leaving with me while he studies in Germany for a year):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-BQCOJafXg

Video focusing on my Gewehr 1888 Commission Rifle and my friend's 1896 Schmidt Rubin straight-pull:
http://youtu.be/97PGqsID130?list=UUQK9lbdAEi9mAM5iGfHoeyA

Video with a variety of rifles, with the highlight being a 3-gun Mosin firing squad on an unlucky parking ticket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1pVV_EmSec&list=UUQK9lbdAEi9mAM5iGfHoeyA

[Hockeywarrior]

Aaand another video for you all, this time featuring my Nagant revolver manufactured in 1914.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mwL7DXBto&feature=youtu.be

[TASSER]

Very cool!

[Steel_Lion_FIN]

Did some self-gunsmithing on my 700 by polishing the slope on the bolt where the firing pin head travels, so raising the bolt will be lighter.