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[Kentucky Windage]

Nerd alert:

303 British refers to cartridge. I'm guessing y'all meant Lee-Enfield

And that's your pro tip of the day......

 

[SDMF]

Nerd alert:

303 British refers to cartridge. I'm guessing y'all meant Lee-Enfield

And that's your pro tip of the day......

SMELLY (grin)

 

[Ericb]

Does it still have the mum (flower) on the top of the receiver or was it ground off before your grandpa got a hold of it?

Still has it. Almost included in the first pic but thought that would be a dead giveaway.

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Dads got a 6.5 Jap (uses 257 Roberts brass) that was made into a sporter, needs a new peep sight put on. I think he used to shoot 85gr sierra hollow points for deer and said it was a great woods gun. Thinking about starting to reload again for it for a pickup gun instead of my heavy barrel 223.

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thinking 95gr V-max should make vermin go splat pretty decent

 

[fj40]

Guess this gun. Same thing. Type 38 6.5 Jap Arisaka sporterised years ago. I shot my first deer with this rifle over 50 years ago. My old man brought home 2 from Guadalcanal. One had the end of the barrel blown off so he sporterised it. I also have the original with bayonet but its quality looks better so its an early one. It also has the mum. Norma make cartridges with a 139 grain bullet.

 

[2400]

Guess this gun. Same thing. Type 38 6.5 Jap Arisaka sporterised years ago. I shot my first deer with this rifle over 50 years ago. My old man brought home 2 from Guadalcanal. One had the end of the barrel blown off so he sporterised it. I also have the original with bayonet but its quality looks better so its an early one. It also has the mum. Norma make cartridges with a 139 grain bullet.

Nice gun and a great history. How about a few more pics and some of the "original" 6.5?

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Nice gun and a great history. How about a few more pics and some of the "original" 6.5?

Am going to try to remember to get some pics of dad's this weekend.

 

[fj40]

I've got to get the original back from my baby brother.

 

[fj40]

OK, what is the top one?

 

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"YET"

Yep, I looked at it and recommended we only load for it with pyrodex or 777. Shoots ok with that. Might be OK with that cowboy action stuff, I’ve forgotten the name??? Like all guns, it’s fun to shoot. It’ll hold a minute of Buffalo at 30 yards. Naw, 25 yards.....

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SMELLY (grin)

A bit off the original topic,,but talking history of rifles...
Short magazine lee enfieles, AKA SMELLY! When we were kids up in Canada you could buy all kinds and models (marks 1234,etc) of surplus SMLE’s , and all the ammo you could stand to shoot. Canada being sort of part of the Empire equipped its troops in WW1 and first part of WW2 with .303’s and probably even now it got to be the commonest rifle in Canada, other than .22 rim fires. We kids could order them from Eaton’s or Sears Catalog for prices starting at about 8 bucks apiece, running up to maybe 20 for the so called Jungle Carbine Model. Then we’d sporterize them with hacksaws, whittle down the stocks, etc. No scopes then. Some of them produced between the wars with good barrels would really shoot, some mass produced in a hurry just before or during the war were pretty rough but would always go boom.
Some of the ammo we used was produced well before WW1, and occasionally you’d get a batch that smelled and sounded a bit funny when you shot it, so we’d Stick it in a vice, grab the bullett with with a big pliers, and see what was inside! Lo and behold....CORDITE! Haven’t seen or smelled it since! Rare game warden back then so to hunt deer we’d simply chop off the nose of the the solid military bullets and shoot em like that! Luckily none of us ever managed to shoot out an eye or lose a finger or something.
Those were the days....before we had drivers licenses we kids would walk out of town with all kinds of rifles and shotguns, shoot upa storm storm out of town in some farmers field. No one cared , and no one ever got hurt. When we got older we’d take guns to,school and have lunch in the local junk,yard and shoot rats and old car bodies. Sometimes the principal would join us.

 

[SDMF]

OK, what is the top one?

Colt? I'm not very lever-action educated but I don't recognize it as a Marlin or a Winchester which I at least usually recognize.

 

[LBrandt]

Looking forward for the right answer.

 

[Ericb]

Is it a Stevens?

 

[2400]

OK, what is the top one?

Is it an 1880ish Whitney Kennedy in 40-60?

 

[fj40]

Close Kev. Its a Whitney Kennedy in 44.40.

 

[2400]

Close Kev. Its a Whitney Kennedy in 44.40.

Close enough for a steak and eggs breakfast? :;:smokin

 

[harveyspecter]

I think It's 303 British

 

[Obi-Wan]

Still has it. Almost included in the first pic but thought that would be a dead giveaway.

my dad one converted to a 300 savage that he bought from an old WW2 vet. he told us the ones that still had the emblem were taken as war trophies off of dead Japanese soldiers and the ones that were ground or filed off were sold as surplus after the war not sure if this is true or just a made up story

 

[PrairieGhost]

I wish we still had the freedom to buy that old military surplus. It usually cost $9.99 or $19.99, and the guns in really good shape were $29.99. Dad got a very nice 6.5 Swede that way, and an ok 8mm mauser.