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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
By the p***king of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!
Shocked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKwDHPkRLw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKwDHPkRLw




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Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 11:04am
Thanks for posting this video! Wouldn't that rifle be something to have and shoot?!!

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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 1:14pm
Cool gun!

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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
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
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


Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 3:29am
I work in R&D and Cludge is a term we use

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Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 5:37am
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.


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
Maybe the correct term in The States would be "Rube Goldberg" idea.

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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 1:57pm
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"Big smile


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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
Yes the Enfausers.

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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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