Terrible gunshow in upstate ny today. Out of the entire show there were only a handful of interesting pieces with most people selling cheap gear, knives, and overpriced food.

I did find this thing and after a little haggling it left with me.

From my understanding the prewar examples have nice finishes and wartime grew worse and worse until it’s basically hastily done phosphate. Initially I thought it must be refinished but based on the marking quality I think this was some sort of factory variation. Anyone more knowledgeable than me on these want to prove
Me wrong/right?

Serial range puts it at 1944 production if I’m not mistaken.

I've been doing gun content and videos latelty. I've been enjoying it a ton, and it's gotten me back into milsurps and the like. Digging around in my safe for my next 2 videos, I pulled out my Swiss K31 and my M44 Mosin. Which should I do first? This M44 is absolutely beat to hell, but it sure does make a cool fireball! If anyone is interested in seeing some videos, you can find me at Lambvinskis Armory on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. I'd love some honest feedback.

Finland capture** 😁😁. I have this rifle in my collection now never had one what do you guys think?

Found an Israeli K98 at a local auction. Got it for a good price i think. Nice unique piece for the collection.

Thought I would show y'all an updated picture of my collection so far. Most of them are from the last 2 years with quite a few being from this year alone. My goal for next year is to close to double the collection with a focus on WW1 and pre-WW1 bolt actions. Hope y'all enjoy

From top to bottom with the far left listed first:

EIC Model F Musket made in 1844

M95 Carbine made by Steyr in 1897

Gew. 88/05 made by Steyr in 1890

M91 Carcano made by Terni in 1900

M91 Moschetto made by Cardone in 1938

Type I Carcano made by FNA Brescia in 39

Series 4 Type 38 Carbine made by Nagoya

Series 30 Type 99 made by Toyo Kogyo

K98k made by Waffenwerke Brunn in 1944

M91/30 made by Izhevsk in 1943

No1MkIII* made by Ishapore in 1941

What's a good price on something like this? It's 1940, no import marks that I can see. Some wear and pitting but it feels right and everything seems to move how it should.

My shaved 1918 Webley Mk6, 1941 Nagant Revolver, and I don't remember the year of the Astra 400, but I believe it was made in the 40s. I'll have to check. If these old beauty's could talk, I'm sure the stories would be amazing.

Got my hakim picked up the other day, can’t wait to shoot it.

Hey, is someone able do give me some info on my newly acquird Steyr M95?

The only markings i found so far are the proof mark and the Steyr M95 marking. Does the serialnumber give me some info on when it was made?

I know it is in 8x50r because there is no S but i need to check the borediameter.

Thanks in edvance for everyone who is able to help.

Picture from Google as an example/Attention Grabber

I'm looking for advice on places to find trench art for an M70. It seems that every obvious outlet for these kits have all dried up. Thank you in advance for any and all help!

Isn’t she lovely?

These are VERY rare know what I got bubbagruppe Karbiner from the battle of Tipperary.

Naw but fr? Love this. So glad the sporter I bought fit in the Yugo k98 stock. It’s the short g98 I always wanted :)

Hello,

I was working on cleaning parts of an old Chinese Mauser I inherited that was quite rusty. As part of this, I was boiling the parts to loosen up the rust and clean it deeper. I was working on something else in the garage and let the pot run out of water, leading to the bolt sitting in a hot pot for maybe 30-45 minutes with no water while still absorbing heat.

The bolt already had quite a bit of black, but some very small parts (I’ve tried to picture) have gotten a hot blue tinge to them. These are by the bolt and some smaller scattered, small instances elsewhere.

Is the tempering of the steel ruined at this point? I’m taking the rifle to a gunsmith anyway to have the other parts checked out to determine if it’s safe to shoot, but I wanted to see if I destroyed the bolt and should just seek a replacement at this point (if I can find anything that’ll work with a Chinese Mauser…).

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Here's a rare one: one of 200 M94 carbines produced in 1898 with a faster than normal twist rate in the rifling for use with lower-power rounds for indoor shooting ranges. These rifles were put in black-dyed stocks and had a K prefix on the serial number to make them clearly identifiable.

This particular example, as is apparently common, was converted back to standard M94 carbine by the Swedish military. The barrel and stock are standard M94 parts and the K prefix has been marked out (but is still faintly visible) but all parts, including stock and barrel, are fully matching. Interestingly the stock disc indicates that the rifle continued on with the "kammarvapen" ("gallery shooting") designation for a Swedish Air Force unit so its role remained the same, just with standard ammunition.

Recently bought two cases of Greek 7.92 from rti and I thought I post some oddities I found looking for corroded cases.

The first and weirdest one was a mystery 6.5mm round in the last box I had. I saw the Greek lettering and thought "nice a second one" before being shocked by the long bullets when I turned it around. I don't actually know what 6.5mm it is, just the bullet diameter.

I also found an 8mm round with a wierd impression in the case, and a couple boxes that contained both 1939 and 1940 headstamps, and observed 3 different variations of 1938 headstamp.

Found this in the stock of my 03a3 while deep cleaning for the first time

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

1918 Colt M1911

Unknown year Type 38 Arisaka short

1943 M1 Garand

1942 Mosin Nagant 91/30

1942 Lee Enfield No4 Mk1

1903 Turkish Mauser

I cannot find out what they are

With all the FRTs out there now I searched for one for the PPS43 no luck!

Here’s my prototype 3d printed for now, currently works when bench testing will need to print with better filament and test!

Couldn’t be happier!

Looking for help identifying what version I have. It feels and looks like a wwii era piece but I know there are a lot of reproduction Luger magazines. Thanks !