How nice a set of rifles..Envious of you and your luck...I just own one Eddystone, but that puppy is heavy and import marked...It had the red band marking....I did not see a band on any of yours??? I kind of like that chinese version that was shown on this posting, a very good idea, to chase..Originally Posted by axemurderer
I got one at the Philadelphia Armory show. two on GB.
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Time to feed the pigs!!!!!!
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin.
I am afraid I don't have any pictures at the moment, but my old Eddystone has a red band painted around the fore end with ".30-06" stenciled in black on the red-- I remember reading somewhere that these were sent to Canada on lend-lease, but they already had some stores of the Pattern-1914 rifles, so the red band was added. Some of the paint is flaking off, I had best get some shots soon-- I'll put one up when I have it. I dearly love these old warhorses, and I don't necessarily mean just the M'17s--
Well just an update, today I bought #12! Still need an endless supply of stocks, but have not found one!
Staten Island German Martial Arts (S.I.G.M.A.)
http://www.sigmanewyork.webs.com/
Time to feed the pigs!!!!!!
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin.
You don't need more than one gun to kill a deer! If it saves just one life......
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Oh,Mike!!
"The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." -- James Madison (1788)
Tru dat,Brother!
"The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." -- James Madison (1788)
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