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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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One other feature about the BREN: THEY NEVER BREAK!
The Czech vz 26 (BREN forerunner) had a specification for the steel that was fantastic; the steel was made by the Skoda works and was required to show no appreciable wear of the receiver until at least 500,000 rounds had been fired.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2011 - 09:16pm PT
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Wish that guy hadn't bought it.
You should use it for your avatar photo, Rodger.
I hope its not windy tomorrow. Its good and wet and I have a 10 gallon propane tank, a road flare, and a new Sharps .45-70 (and a video camera).
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2011 - 09:35pm PT
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OK, I'll narrow it down.
He put up more than two.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2011 - 09:48pm PT
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Read again. I got a Sharps Quigley.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Woody had a .303 he was quite proud of. He thought he had a jungle carbine, was quite sure it was genuine, but had a tinge of doubt.
I volunteered to run it down for him and he provided the SN#.
He was a bit disappointed when I confirmed that it was a post war conversion by an importer.
Genuine Jungle Carbines are incredibly rare. There were only a few thousand (if that many) made. Converting SMLE's to carbine status by chopping them down was a growth industry in the 50's and 60's.
Back in the 70's one of my buddies I'd grown up with had a .303 he'd been given by an older brother. He also had a large supply of WWII vintage ammo.
We'd fire it and about every half dozen, dozen rounds or so there would be a hang fire of a half second or so, or a misfire, requiring the manual pin re-cock and the mandatory 30 count if it didn't go off on the second strike. Some of the rounds just didn't have the correct report and recoil as well, hitting the dirt well in front of the target.
Now another buddy, John wanted to borrow it to go Boar hunting up at Ft. Hunter Ligget. We both told him to make sure he purchased some new factory ammo.
He ignored us.
On his boar hunt he managed to hit one, but with one of those squib rounds that just really pissed off the pig.
The next round was a hang fire.
To add insult to injury they got busted while still up in the oak tree they'd taken refuge in by the MP's
Turned out they didn't have the correct permits.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2011 - 10:30pm PT
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Some of the boar hunts in Nevada have no trees to hide in.
Can you believe those euros that hunt boars with spears?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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I hope its not windy tomorrow. Its good and wet and I have a 10 gallon propane tank, a road flare, and a new Sharps .45-70 (and a video camera).
This should be good.
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FGD135
Social climber
Colorado
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Brits loved those Bren guns so much they made a special tracked vehicle to carry it, a workhorse for them in WW2.
Bren guns were kept in store for a very long time, and most of them were eventually converted into the L4A1 version, L4A2 etc., firing 7.62x51 NATO, recognizable by their straight magazines, instead of the curved .303SA mags.
Never have had a chance to shoot either version,dang it, but I have fired a .303 Lewis gun.
Please post up some video of that Sharps in action!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2011 - 11:48pm PT
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OK, additional clue;
more than three routes.
What? Nobody can even guess?
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FGD135
Social climber
Colorado
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I dunno, must be a Canuck or English climber? Who else is gonna be rechambering .303s?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2011 - 12:02am PT
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FGD,
WRONG!
and did you know that The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom was a rewrite (in barely 3 months) after the original 500,000 word manuscript was purloined?
Hint; American
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2011 - 12:05am PT
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OK, so yer narrowing it down.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2011 - 12:23am PT
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LOL
No.
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Apr 10, 2011 - 12:49am PT
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Brits loved those Bren guns so much they made a special tracked vehicle to carry it, a workhorse for them in WW2.
Was watching the tube (yes I still have a tube TV) the other day and saw that the Brits also adopted the Willies JEEP into service modifying it to carry five, yes five BREN MG's and an optional center mount to fix a MA Deuce too. The Royal Marines would bugger around German air strips and let loose on the stationed planes with incendiary rounds.
What a hell of a ride that would have been!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2011 - 01:31am PT
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Probably doesn't equal the average low-rider.
Finally tha Dood gets it ( my next clue was that his nickname rhymes with Tha Turd).
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Apr 10, 2011 - 01:41am PT
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I thought somebody already guessed Bridwell?
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T Moses
Big Wall climber
Paso Robles
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Apr 10, 2011 - 02:08am PT
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Euros hunting boar with spears? Psshaw. Hawaiians do it with knives at night. Drop out of the trees from above as a team. Heard tell from one of them directly. They had one among the group that got gored and had to go to the hospital to get stitched up. They had a hell of a time explaining that.
I'd love to see video of that maniacal Willies beast that the brits cooked up. Must have been hell on wheels.
Sorry for the thread drift. At least it's not the 5.56 vs 7.62x39 vs 7.62x51 eternal debate. That goes on like the "wrong repulicans" thread.
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FGD135
Social climber
Colorado
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Apr 12, 2011 - 11:24pm PT
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Rifle is engraved "Part of our booty in the battle for the Dardanelles" by the Turks, given to Feisal by Enver Pasha, then to Lawrence. Has five notches carved into it by Lawrence, his initials, and the date 4.12.16 .
Lawrence gave it to King George V.
This is the rifle carried by Lawrence in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
Not a Bren, but cool
So, Bridwell was in who's employ when he was rechambering .303s?
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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Apr 12, 2011 - 11:34pm PT
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Guns and rifles suck. Unless you are Grizzly Adams.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 13, 2011 - 12:36am PT
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But back to .303
Isn't that what shot down the Red Baron?
No. It was Sgt. Cedric Bassett Popkin that brought down the Red Knight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Popkin
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