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MJ11
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The Spartans do not ask how many the enemies are but where they are
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muffett.2008
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If the dog didn't fire it, consider it still unfired.
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MJ11
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The Spartans do not ask how many the enemies are but where they are
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Shamu
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If it has "ring around the firing pin" it fired. No problem though, that's what they were built to do.
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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MJ11
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The Spartans do not ask how many the enemies are but where they are
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Shamu
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Whoa, dude, take it easy its not that bad!
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Canuck
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Be easy on yourself MJ11, if you need to talk this through we are here to lend a sympathetic ear. What a beautiful dog you have guarding your T hanging on the wall! Male or female? I love that breed of dog, really good with the little kids (in my experience).
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Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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MJ11
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That was my little girl and she passed two years ago this week at ten and half years.
I can't feel the ring on the bolt face and I counted the empty cases at five and all were new Winchester with Federal primers. I'm surprised it etched so fast but maybe the light film of oil was just cooked. All that and nobody hit the steel plate. |
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Canuck
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Sorry for your loss, I really am. Yes, I am certain that some oil got cooked and left a ring on the bolt face. Makes total sense to me.
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Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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my opinion , worth the little it is - if they did not fire it , after building it , in a controlled environment . to test it , i'm not gonna be the guinnie pig , i'm still saying these were all fired once at least , don't give me the "unfired" BS , we don't need it and really those who know - don't want it , those that buy based on that - get just what they deserve - not a military weapon ,
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Shamu
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My mummy was definitely fired before wrapping. The lazy buggers didn't even clean it I had to do that 55 years later!
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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paddyofurniture
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As it had not been cleaned before it was wrapped was there any pitting / rust issues when you cleaned it?
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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Shamu
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None. I think they dumped it in the hot cosmo almost immediately. There was definitely bore fouling of both powder & metal when I cleaned the "new, unfired" rifle.
I was utterly stunned to think that under the wrap & cosmolene there was firing residue, but there was. If it was proof rounds, or a function test I don't know but I'm 100% certain at least one round, probably more had been fired before the cosmolene went in. |
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I have seen it both ways. Spotless and fouled with rack numbers plus handling dents with dirt but still unfired.
I have it from first hand that in 1943 and1944 only one in ten M1's were fired at Springfield. |
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Shamu
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That's why I got an Enfield instead of an M-1 At least we proofed all of ours
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