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Did that with a lot of Spanish-made 9mm Largo. Fired as issued, the primers would puncture and flatten and the words on the cases were burnished and made illegible. So, I pulled the bullets,...

Johnson Automatics made 2 groove replacement barrels for the 1917s. I know, as I had one. It was a WW2 expediency. The barrel was marked in the usual place up by the front sight--'JA' and the...

The dolts around here just use a piece of picture frame wire. Works well.

I served in 4 branches...missed the Foreign Legion and the Marine Corps...and this story is right on the button. The AF knows how to treat it's people. Housing, food, duty, everything.

Eddystone made that one.

That one looks like the 03A3s that our post sent in to trade for M1s. You should see those sorry pieces of sh*t, (the M1s.) We have spent hundreds trying to keep them running. I know that I am...

I have a group picture of my Army basic training company from Ft. Leonard Wood in 1959. I treasure it. Four years later I enlisted in the Coast Guard, and had to run the whole 12 weeks basic. The...

A gunsmith once told me that 7 grains of 800X with any bullet is a fine load. I remember shooting up a can of it, and it was very accurate.

S&B brass=candidates for the scrap bucket. I never cared for the grief that they cause, in all respects.

Good answer! Nothing tickles the crap out of me more than taking my so-called "parts guns" out to the range, and whipping everyone with them. I love scouring parts bins and finding treasures here...

Nice review, Ted.

What do all the "It's not all matching!!" whining, crying, sobbing purists say about this piece? :^)

Probably borrowed it from a Legion or VFW post.

There is one on display at our Legion post with a cracked bolt. 1898, rifle version.

Watch closely in some of the scenes from the movie "Sergeant York," with Gary Cooper. Sometimes his 03 has this type of rear sight.

I remember the instructors on the range telling us in no uncertain terms to not do that..use the steel buttplate, instead.

I once saw a pic of a German using an M1 carbine. He was standing alongside a tank or something.

Had a 96 sporter that was fitted with a 1922 .22 barrel and rechambered to .22 Hornet. It has a beautiful beavertail walnut stock, great checkering, cheekpiece, horn buttplate. The rifle had been...

Boys, enlighten me. I only shot an M14 once, in about 1970. (I have a Springfield M1A in my basement that I have only shot once..not too interested in it.) Anyway, what's the deal on the Chinese...

Fail to feed on 5 on the last volley today.

All I can say in closing is that keeping these 10 junkers running is like keeping 10 '49 Frazers running at the local stock car races. Yes, we grease them, no oiling. I am about to start my...

Not quite that simple. We've already spent over a thousand on op rod straightening, replacement op rods, replacement stocks, replacement gas cylinders and a myriad of small parts. I replaced the...

One of them we finally were able to get Anniston to fix for us. They did a good job, but never said what they did. They sent back the gas cylinder, which was one that we had paid good money for,...

Thanks for the advice, guys. I kept the offending rifle back today, and the others shot fine. This troublesome one was a worn-out specimen that we got to replace one of those post-WW2 rifles that...

Need some more help with our Legion M1s, boys. We've spent about a grand on our M1s in the ten years that we've had them, and new problems crop up every day. Two days ago we had a field day; ...