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    1mark

    American socket bayonets and scabbards

    Does anyone have a copy of this book? If so can you post a picture of Figure S100. It would be of a variation to a Trapdoor bayonet frog.

    1mark 05-14-2024, 12:45 Go to last post
    DeWayne Hayes

    Springfield # 1367116, NRA Sporter

    Yeah, this rifle has cosmoline all over the action, including the Lyman sight for some reason. Would be interesting to know who applied that and put the

    DeWayne Hayes 05-14-2024, 07:42 Go to last post
    Vern Humphrey

    Sad Statistics

    My company, A-1/61 IN, had -- according to my research -- from start to finish 16 company commanders in Viet Nam. Seven killed, eight wounded. One,

    Vern Humphrey 05-14-2024, 07:41 Go to last post
    Dick Hosmer

    Springfield # 1367116, NRA Sporter

    Wonder why/how Mallory missed that one? He was certainly "in the right area" of the records . . . As an aside, they are great shooters!

    Dick Hosmer 05-14-2024, 07:06 Go to last post
    Johnny P

    Springfield # 1367116, NRA Sporter

    Cosmoline was normally used for storage rather than on new manufacture weapons. I would think that a Sporter would have had a coat of preservative oil,

    Johnny P 05-14-2024, 06:39 Go to last post