Barbecue and the obligatory sound of 80 pings are happening tonight. How are you celebrating?
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This
and playing this game, because it’s all I am allowed and able to afford.
Nice gun, BTW. Some history to it, or just bough surplus?
It was purchased through the CMP quite a while back. It was manifactured in December of 43; stock is birch from an Arsenal rebuild in the early 60s. Hand guard is original walnut from 43.
It’s got a T105 rear sight assembly and a Springfield receiver. I’ve never bothered to get the proper lock bar sight assembly. I have its Earl McFarland stock that I keep off of it when I’m shooting. It only goes on it when I’m displaying.
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haha sounds odd to me to. alot of death
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I’m kinda jealous, here I would have to join a collector’s club, and then pass a licencing exam (that’s one kinda good, seeds out stupid ones), just to have it granted on police chief’s whim, so I can spend $5k on a gun that isn’t just a beaten up Soviet mothball.
Here is a fun fact no one asked:
The girl on pfp was born on 6th of June which is a reference to D-Day.
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Oh gosh. I paid $125 for my Garand and nobody has the authority to tell me No. I think when my Grandpa bought his M1 Carbine, he paid $25 and he paid $75 for his BAR.
…we like guns
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I unlocked the Fw 190 D-12 
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Nothing’s like buying a whole arsenal for a price of an average phone (at least back here in PL), especially such classics. From curiosity, I looked on some catalogues. While I might get a boltie for a grand, semi-autos quickly balloon into high prices, especially ones that were already rare or not from the region (anything American is super expensive). Interestingly, I can get a whole ass Maxim 1910 for $4k, but they will lock it to semi-auto for individual buyers.
Well…we(some of us) are taught from a very early age how to convert a semi-auto to an auto. It takes one hole drilled in a specific spot with a hand drill plus a coat hanger. Now…none of us would ever do that because that would be naughty. But knowing what needs done and how it’s done is important in case you have a need for an automatic rifle. Mill out the bottom of a Garand receiver(with other nuanced modifications) to accept BAR mags and add an auto sear and you’ve got a cheap functioning automatic rifle. You can also make a trip to any hardware store and walk out with all the materials needed to construct a functioning smoothbore submachine gun for about $30 (it is called a “Luty” after the guy who published the plans.)
Anymore, people use ECM to rifle etch hydraulic pipe and 3d print receivers in pistol calibers. We have a very healthy enthusiast community (except in the cities where their politics are controlled by insane people)
im celebrating it by watching the PeriscopeFilm channel about D day invasion
old film are really interesting to me
also i think i have been listening to american ww2 propaganda for way too long
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Oh, we have too…we have too. We’re sick and tired of propaganda created for population control by people who are not our superiors
how the hell do you turn a machine gun into a semi-auto, thats impossible.
I think can because the maxim m1910 action system is: short recoil and toggle locked, I’m not a fire arm expert so i can be wrong, convert a so old MG in a semi auto is a new thing for me to
It’s not impossible. Switch the sear and the hammer won’t drop without returning the trigger. I’m not intimitely familiar with the internals of the M1910, but it is a Maxim gun…if it is like his earlier designs, there are two internal sears. They are what release the hammer to fire subsequent rounds.
It isn’t so much an “MG thing.” It would be more a “Maxim thing.” Maxims were obviously much earlier designs and there may be something about their internals that I’m not familiar with. I’m certain that one CAN be made semi-auto. I’m just not confident I fully understand the steps to do so on that particular weapon.
What exactly is it about a machine gun that makes you guys puzzled that it can be turned semi-auto? They’re just chunks of metal and wood. I’m curious.
Because convert very old gun with rudimental action system I not something you see or read every day… I’m more curious than skeptical to know how the gun dint broke under the conversion
Here is a video showing the internal operation of a Maxim machine gun. Note that I’m watching this for the first time.
Notice the hammer hooks on the bottom right and the connection to the trigger. Add a particular design of sear in that location and the hammer can’t fall without trigger reset.
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Wouldnt the MG42 be the host though?
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