28 May 2019
 

During the Cold War the Czechs made, and was used by the Secret Police, the CZ Skorpion .32 acp Machine Pistol. It was a vicious little sucker, very high cyclic rate of fire and very compact.

CZ has given the SCORPION name to a new pistol, rifle, and in other then the US, a select fire gun. For some reason the BATFE as approved shouldering and firing a Scorpion Pistol with a wrist brace - which makes for a convenient sized gun. As a pistol the brace makes a lot more sense. Throw a red dot or a low power (3X) scope on it and it's a fine little shooter!

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29 May 2019
 

Something different, a CZ-40P. The 40P could be called CZ's Frankengun; when a joint venture between Colt and CZ more or less failed (CZ was making a Model 40B with Colt labeling) CZ had left over parts. They installed the 40B slide on a P-01 "type" frame, making the 40P. It's a great auto despite being a .40 S&W...

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Those Scorpion pistols shoot very well. The fastest I’ve ever downed a whole plate rack was with one of these sporting an eotech red dot and sig brace.


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30 May 2019
 

Something a bit different - Colt Police Positive Special, .38 Special. I got this and a few other guns in a trade on Coltforums.com. This one was shipped to the Cleveland (Ohio) Police Department in 1929:

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31 May 2019
 

Pair 'o' Revolvers.

I first visited Hong Kong in 1972 while I was onboard the USS MIDWAY. We anchored out so far in the harbor we were close to where the Queen Elizabeth, the sister ship of the Queen Mary (now a tourist attraction and hotel in Long Beach, CA) caught fire and sank in Hong Kong Harbor where, as the biggest Ocean Liner was being overhauled and refitted. Three separate fires broke out and between the damage and firefighting water sunk her.

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I was 20 in 1972 and well Hong Kong and Kowloon were a sailor's paradise! At the time HK was a British Crown Colony; I was really impressed by how professional and squared away the Royal Hong Kong Police looked in their olive drab uniforms; over the alf socks, and the creases in their uniform shirts and shorts looked sharp enough to shave with! They wore leather Sam Browne Belts and flapped cross draw holsters with some sort of revolver - that I didn't know what make they were.

Fast forward to a couple of years ago; and I know what some of them carried; Colt Police Positive Special Revolvers chambered in .38 S&W, or as the British referred to it as .38-200. I made a gun trade with someone on Coltforums.com; I sent him two guns and I ended up with a total of 5 Colt revolvers; including two RHKP Colt's. One of the guns is Century marked; the other is not. Both have a 4 digit number on the back strap; the number 4633 is the same number as my house address in MI before we moved to Texas! He also included two RHKP Badges, and a couple of other badges as well...

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^^^^Great read and beautiful revolvers


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It's pretty neat when a gun has a story. :)

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1 June 2019
 

Here's one of the other Colts I acquired during the above mentioned trade. This one is a Colt Police Positive Special; .38 Special, shipped to the Cleveland (Ohio) Police Department in 1929.

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Cleveland, OH Police Positive Special .38 Special made in 1929

2 June 2019
 

So a rhetorical question that most gun folks should know the answer to...

Who put the AR in the AR-15, AR-16? Why the answer would be: ARMALITE. The basic Armalite came in two flavors; AR-18 (Select fire) and the AR-180 (Semi-auto only).

The Armalite 18 and 180 were made in 3 places; England, Japan, and California. Mine is from Sterling, made in England.

I bought my AR-180 when I lived in Michigan; it came with a 20 round Armalite marked magazine and 3x40 round Armalite Magazines including one still sealed in plastic. I found the scope on-line; it is an original Armalite Scope; similar to the early Colt AR scopes.

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3 June 2019
 

So new (to me) I haven't even chambered a round. Every time I buy a lever action gun I end up trading or selling it. Hopefully that will stop with this gun I just bought today; the Marlin 1895M Guide Gun chambered in .450 Marlin.

The .450 Marlin is an effort to create a modern version of the .45-70; except it is more of the .458 family.

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In a tubular fed levergun, there really isn't a pressing need for the 450 Marlin (458x2 with a longer belt) other than giving ammo manufacturers cover for making hot 45-70 equivalent loads that don't blow up weak actions, since no weak actions were chambered in it. Tubular magazine lever guns handle the 45-70 just fine.

Where it shines is in bolt action rifles where it becomes a 458 Win Mag lite. Chambering 45-70 in a bolt action has been done but you really need a bolt action designed for big rimmed cartridges like the Siamese Mauser or the MAS 46. This gets around that and lets you have a 45-70 equivalent in a bolt action.

I hear Browning is chambering the BLR in 450 Marlin now.

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4 June 2019
 

Revolver Tuesday.

Here's a classic - Dan Wesson .44 Magnum.

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ns/DW_44_r.jpg

^^^^^^Oh me like!!!!!!!!


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NOW you are talking!

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I’ll have to take a picture with it’s 2” barrel installed!

Yes please! Lol.... love those DW revolvers!


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5 June 2019
 

Back, by popular demand; a 2-1/2" Dan Wesson .44 Magnum!


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Lol.... I don’t know about popular but, thanks. That’s a whole lotta bang out of a snubby! I bet the fireball is impressive.


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.... and probably kicks like a Mississippi mule too, that's OK, I'd still love to own one !! :cool:

Kicks like a mule and as loud as a banshee! It got the attention of everyone at the range every time I pulled the trigger! Actually with the ported barrel recoil wasn't punishing at all.

That snubby barrel is ported? Interesting.


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I'd bet it blows some flame out of those ports ! :eek:

No. The Marlin .450 Marlin’s 18-1/2” barrel is ported.

Really nice pistolas (and knives from the knife thread). Remind me never to piss you off cwo4!

6 June 2019
 

During the invasion in Normandy the US Coast Guard had a major role. Not only were many of the landing craft operated by Coast Guard Coxswains (many of them had lots of experience operating small boats in the surf); also they operated 60 wooden hulled patrol boats near shore rescuing survivors from sunken boats. The also had Beachmasters (both Navy and Coast Guard) directing boats and LSTs where to land.

Here's a link of of 5 facts about the Coast Guard on D-Day:

https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2014/...d-at-normandy/

Here's a little "use your imagination" collage I put together a few years ago as a reminder the Coast Guard did operate ships and small boats in WWII. The Garand is a short barreled "TANKER" that never was produced by the US Armory at Springfield, MA although several prototypes were built and some were built in Theater in the Philippines. Mine was assembled from a kit that Numrich used to sell.

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Very interesting, thanks for posting that !!

Nice setup!

I had the full DW set in .357 Mag back in the early ‘80’s, and wish I’d kept it.

As far as .44 Mag recoil, a six inch S&W 629 was my deer gun for many years when I ran the dogs in the swamp. I reloaded and fired many hundreds, if not thousands, of rounds through it, and a Desert Eagle, and never thought the recoil was bad. I only carried the DE a couple of times, as it was just too big and clunky compared to that well-balanced 629.

7 June 2019
 

Auto-Ord (Kahr Arms) WWII 1911A1 clone:

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That's a beauty. Your guns are in immaculate condition. And your aiming ain't bad at all. Thanks for sharing.

I really like the GI clones. I have a RI version and it just a neat looking and shooting gun. Plain, simple, basic and just works.

Agreed.


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8 June 2019
 

Para Ordnance, ParaOrd - quite a wide variety of 1911 style pistols.

Although they claim that there "LDA" series of 1911s are a "Light Double Action" they are not a double action. By definition a double action pistol's trigger not only cocks the hammer, it also releases the hammer and does it all over again! Like a Single Action gun that relies on either the recoil of the slide to reset the hammer or its done by "racking the slide." What does the LDA do? It stages the trigger and allows fo a lighter trigger pull.

Here's the "big and bad" LDA - the high capacity Government LDA:

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I wasn't aware that the LDA didn't have second strike capability. Then it is definitely NOT double action, but more like a cocked CZ 75, which cocks the hammer slightly when you fire it SA. Only the CZ is double action so you have second strike capability.

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Those GI models are a nicer gun than their price point would indicate.

I detail stripped one a while back to do a bit of work for a friend, which included replacing the hammer, hammer strut and strut pin, sear, disco, and trigger with Harrison Custom Extreme Service parts. I replaced the sear spring with a C&S light pull sear spring.

The pistol was reliable as is, but he wanted a gun that was well-tuned, but “looked like a beater.”

I think they’ve discontinued the parkerized model, but still have the blued model. Neither are easy to find down here.

That PO pistol is nice!

I had their stainless CCW model with the LDA trigger system.

9 June 2019
 

WWII - he with the most natural resources wins....

The biggest problem the Japanese faced during WWII was a lack of raw material. This forced them to make cuts in a lot of their manufacturing processes as the war continued. One area was in the production of small arms. at first the quality of the workmanship suffered - then things were simplified.

This is a Nagoya 10th Series Substitute Rifle; aka a "Last Ditch" gun. Not only has fit and finish suffered but so did manufacturing processes. For one the rear sight went from being fully adjustable and having "wings" to lead aircraft. Welded joints suffered too!

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The full description would be Arisaka type 99 series 10 made at Nagoya Arsenal.

I got one of those. My grandpa brought one back with him. Its a 99 shoots 7.7jap round. Its a fun gun to shoot but its a rough looking block of rifle

10 June 2019
 

Before Colt introduced the Official Police they made a revolver called the Army Special (AS). As sales of the AS begin to fall some genius at Colt decided to rebrand the gun and name it the Official Police. The Official Police has become by far the most widely sold DA Revolver for Colt; for Law Enforcement, before many agencies transitioned to the semi-auto pistol the handgun of choice was either the S&W M&P (Model 10) or the Official Police.

Here's my Army Special made in 1920:

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11 June 2019
 

I never understand why or how this Remington Model 8 cahambered in .35 Remington ended up with a new butt end on the stock. Whoever did the work was a skilled woodworker but forgot to finish their work. It’s a good shooter; probably reliable to 125-150 yards. It’s a takedown job too!

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