Another he!!o from Western Canada
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Topic: Another he!!o from Western Canada
Posted By: GrantRCanada
Subject: Another he!!o from Western Canada
Date Posted: March 19 2024 at 6:27pm
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Having recently joined, i will take this opportunity to post a brief introduction. I am a retired male, moving along toward my 75th birthday, and reside in Medicine Hat, Alberta. I have been a gun accumulator and shooter since my teenage years, and have a particular fascination with British Empire (Canadian-issue preferably) military firearms of the latter half of the 19th century and first half of the twentieth …  |
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Posted By: Mayhem
Date Posted: March 21 2024 at 3:35pm
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Welcome aboard! ------------- .303 - Helping Englishmen express their feelings since 1889 |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: March 21 2024 at 3:42pm
Howdy from Phoenix Arizona 🤠
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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: March 21 2024 at 3:51pm
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Grant, Good to see you on the Enfield Rifles Forum. I “know you” from the British Militaria Forum, which I have not visited in some time. This a good group, lots of collector knowledge here. Also numerous “shooters” on this forum. Let us know what LE’s you have. You’re a very experienced collector and shooter, so may not be that much we can help you with. |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 21 2024 at 4:09pm
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Welcome from North Carolina in the States. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 21 2024 at 5:36pm
| hey , grant , we knew each other back on the skennerton sight many years ago and had a little interaction thru SASS/CAS back when as well the british militaria site , also on the glad you found us here and i believe this will be mutually beneficial as your wealth of knowledge can now be tapped into , |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: March 22 2024 at 7:14am
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Welcome from Agassiz, BC! Soon to be an Albertan too. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: March 22 2024 at 10:08am
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Welcome! from Paris France. ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: March 22 2024 at 2:35pm
| Welcome from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada! |
Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: March 22 2024 at 5:37pm
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Welcome from Texas ------------- Have a Nice Day If already having a nice day please disregard |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: March 23 2024 at 12:51am
| Big Howdy! from a former western Canadian, now a Texan who also loves everything Lee Enfield. I have a M.L.E. and a C.L.L.E. among many others in my collection, both civilian target rifles and in excellent condition. |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: March 23 2024 at 5:43am
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Any room out there, thinking of leaving Ontario, this place is a shyt show Do I need a passport?  Welcome neighbor.
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 23 2024 at 8:45am
More Enfieldians are always welcome. Tell customs at the border that you are a friend of Paddyofurniture. PM Me for info so I can sponsor you. I will do it for you, but not Hoadie. ------------- 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. |
shiloh wrote:Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: March 23 2024 at 1:33pm
| Shilo, Ontario, or at least Toronto, finally got what they've always craved! To be seen as a "real" big city the NYC and LA! Cool! I wish them well! Drive bys, "new Canadian" gangbangers dealing drugs! All in a revolving door justice system... Sounds like heaven to me! |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: March 23 2024 at 2:44pm
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Ya, and nope, I stopped going to TO 10 yrs ago, it was a sh!t show then and I can`t even imagine going there now. Orangeville or NewMarket is as far south As I`ll go. And that`s a stretch. Ontario is just simply falling apart, I don`t know how for the life of me why my two younger brothers and there families are still living in the GTA. When we get together, they come to my sanctuary.
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 24 2024 at 3:52am
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My eldest son moved back to T.O. (I can't understand why) T.O.gets the lion's share of the provincial budget & it's NEVER enough! They constantly scream they need more-while the rest of us have to "make do" with the left overs!  If I want to travel east to go to the cabin (link up with the 35/115) I have to take the most expensive toll road in N.America(maybe the world) cuz w/Toronto the 401 is always plugged solid.Take 403 - 400 its the same, then ya gotta hook up w/ 401 again! Doesn't matter, when it comes to Toronto, ya can't go under it, ya can't go over it, ya gotta go thru it...& wear the shyte when (if) ya come out t'other side!!  Torontonians think the sun rises & sets on their ass(ets) but the rest of the province hates them! Their screaming they have insufficient $ to run the place: gotta cut costs...but WAIT!! we can't stop plowing the windrows, & we STILL nedd weekly garbage pick-up,Well, if you asked for windrow plowing anywhere else you'd be laughed at. Garbage - we're allowed 2 bags..EVERY OTHER WEEK!(summer magots are wonderful). And their hosting a couple game of the soccer world cup - that has balloned to a cost of $380 MILLION & growing!!  They aren't even big games...& you just KNOW who's gonna hafta pick up that tab!!  (Should dig a trench around it & let it rot to death!  ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: March 24 2024 at 12:22pm
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100% what he said ^^^^^^ They think they are the centre of the universe, no one else matters or is worthy. And when they sell out and move to my wilderness neighbor hood, they become the newbe A-holes. Don`t have a clue how things are done locally. To put it simply, they`ve made life very difficult for us locals to carry on as we have for generations, they just don`t get it.
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 24 2024 at 12:30pm
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I do pay for trash pick up and I have one very over size trash can for home use. From time to time I use a metal 55 gallon metal drum or go to the local town dump. All the used kitty litter my cats use I collect. I take a ride down the road and pour it in the middle road of the down hill side of the road. You see lots of dead yotes on the road. It might be scrap but it is gold to yotes. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 24 2024 at 12:42pm
Yep!! What he said!! makes matters worse- they buy property in the north & INSTANTLY go about changing things - like"oh! you can't hunt deer!!Thats cruel!No No no..we must change that. Lets alter the lakeshore. etc etc." When we first got the cabin, I went into the village (Maynooth) & entered the only bar (@ that time) there.(Army, Navy, Airforce club). When I went in-it was like right out of a movie..place went suddenly silent! I went straight to the bar - with every eye on me. Bought a beer, & went to table near the door, asked an ole timer if I could sit there.(He let me) He & I dabbled in a bit of talk til one of the people from cross the room came over & flat out asked me:"Are you from the city?" I said"F#C& NO!! I hate that dump - I'm from Niagara" The old guy turned round & yelled"It's OK - he's one of us!" (Dang if they didn't even buy me a beer!! Got invited to join their moose gang as well.  Just gives ya idea how dispised they are...& Toronto school teachers make up the vast majority of summer cottage owners & retirees in the Bancroft area. Their sense of entitlement & opinion is beyond the pale! ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 24 2024 at 1:12pm
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Welcome to our brave new world. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Nelly
Date Posted: April 11 2024 at 3:01pm
| he!!o from the other side of the Rockies! |
Posted By: GrantRCanada
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 4:37pm
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Well, this is interesting … I haven’t received notification of any of the response to this post … until today! Thanks for all the greetings. I see that many fellow Canadians who live in Ontario are just as fed up with the T.0. “elite” as most of us in the rest of Canada, whose lives they feel entitled to control solely by virtue of the number of seats that festering cesspool and surrounding area have in Parliament. Lots of room out west here for “right thinkers” … 😏 … but be careful about relocating to Calgary or Edmonton, which are infested with too many leftists, and were largely to blame for Alberta’s single-term - and disastrous - NDP government. Misguided as they are, they still elect mostly NDP MLA’s … and even the odd Liberal or NDP MP! Sanity prevails pretty much everywhere else in the Province, however. (This message comes to you from my Medicine Hat home of 40+ years, located just under two blocks from Daniele Smith’s Constituency Office.)
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 6:16pm
| hey grant - there are a few - slim few , but few here that shoot CAS/SASS as well , im one , i know you have been active in the past are you still ? any chance you might make the ND/SD state shoot over fathers day here ? would love to connect if you do , |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 7:54am
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Still here in North Carolina in the States. Went to a small local show to day about thirty tables and gave away five dollars to get in, veteran pricing. Lots of AR15's and over priced ammo. One Enfield No4 for $800.00, no thanks! Go to to Raleigh on the 24th to protest guns laws. I want my children and grandchildren to have more rights than me. Saw a nice pig at the pond after a milked the cow and let the mule out. To far away for a hand gun shot and when I got out a rifle out he was gone. Would have been a easy shoot from the back deck. All for the best as the better half was still sleeping. She hates hearing gun shoots in the morning but she does like free pig. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: GrantRCanada
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 12:41pm
Well, that would bring the total number of events I’d love to attend in the last two weeks of June up to about six … spread from just a couple of hundred kilometers away to a couple of thousand! At least three of them - ranging from the closest to one of the furthest - are all on the last weekend in June (i.e. just the week after the Fathers Day weekend). If I wasn’t such a broke retired old fart the ND/SD event would tie in nicely with a trip to the GAF National Muster in central Nebraska the following weekend … but I might have survive the intervening week on insects and ditchwater, while sleeping under a tarp in Walmart parking lots, to be able to afford it! 😉
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 1:14pm
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GAF?? ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 2:25pm
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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. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 3:00pm
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 3:44pm
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Thanks! ------------- 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. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 6:32pm
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i get that , i would just love to see you if it might work out , not sure you would recall , i once had a canadian marked M1909 that you helped me out on for research , but thats over 20 years ago on skennertons site , i miss those days and all that wealth of information , but at the same time its what brought me here and enjoying all of the folks here - you will like it i think ,
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Posted By: GrantRCanada
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 3:06pm
Hoady … a few of my Grand Army of the Frontier iterations … as you might guess, I have made it a habit to represent the British Empire (primarily Canada) amongst all the Americans at these events - [Left to right: Canadian Militia Rifles and Canadian Militia Infantry of the 1866-70 Fenian Raids period, Queen’s Own Rifles of the 1885 Rebellion period, Regiment of Canadian Artillery circa 1890, 5th Royal Scots of Canada circa 1895, 2nd (Special Service) Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment in the Boer War, South African Constabulary late (and post) Boer War.]
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Posted By: GrantRCanada
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 3:15pm
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Further to my above GAF composite photo, to bring this back to “things Lee-Enfield” the photo with my initial post starting this thread shows me shooting my Magazine Lee-Enfield at a GAF Muster in Kansas … |