What happens when you crossbreed a SMELLIE with a
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Topic: What happens when you crossbreed a SMELLIE with a
Posted By: Shamu
Subject: What happens when you crossbreed a SMELLIE with a
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 10:42am
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By the p***king of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKwDHPkRLw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKwDHPkRLw
------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
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Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 11:04am
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Thanks for posting this video! Wouldn't that rifle be something to have and shoot?!! ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 1:14pm
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Cool gun! ------------- 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 25 2024 at 3:21pm
| too bad it never got past experimental to trials - we might have been able to find one , |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 7:46pm
| I was hoping to see it in action... |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 12:56am
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I believe South Africa came up with something similar in WWII called the Reider Automatic Rifle. |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 1:46am
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I love the words Ian comes up with, cludge, made me laugh. And he uses it quite often to describe how things are put together. I find it odd why anyone would go to so much trouble trying to convert rather than design new. Same kind of thing going on in WWI. Inventing a better mouse trap mentality I supose. But non the less, a kind of cool cludge of a rifle...LOL
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Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 3:29am
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I work in R&D and Cludge is a term we use ------------- Have a Nice Day If already having a nice day please disregard |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 5:37am
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I guess the Canadian/English term would be cobble(d) If you google this topic there was quite a few attempts to turn perfectly good bolt guns into semi`s or autos, instead of just making new designs. I guess those concerned were just trying tap into the highly profitable war machine cash cow. Still going on today no doubt.
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 7:32am
| i never understood the US approach in WWI with the pistol caliber type peterson device - only thing that made sense to me was that it converted the bolt gun without destroying the use of the bolt , they just had to add the cut out in the left receiver wall , after these failed to perform up to requirem4ents those rifles lived on as bolt guns - i hsd one in my collection |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 7:52am
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Maybe the correct term in The States would be "Rube Goldberg" idea. ------------- 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: March 26 2024 at 1:57pm
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Yes, a "Kludge" could also be called a "Bodge". not exactly an elegant solution, but a functional if fugly one. There is some video of some of the other semi & full auto SMLE attempts online, this is a one in a million collectable & firing it would be unthinkable. Notice how not even the usual cotton gloves are enough he's wearing "Hand Wellies"  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 27 2024 at 1:03am
| ill go with rube goldberg [ not sure where that came from really ] but yes , kilroy was here and that didnt work well nor did that smellie conversion either |
Posted By: bubba ho tep
Date Posted: June 06 2025 at 6:39am
| Anyone remember those enfield/mauser cobbled together monstrosities the turks did that wound up being imported a decade or two ago. Amazing the work turk armorers did to make them work !. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 06 2025 at 10:12am
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Yes the Enfausers. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |