Irvin and smock in the family

[JDAM]

Just spent a Sunday afternoon flicking through the old family album and unearthed these photos. My grandfather and one of his pals on leave, early 1944. An Irvin and a windproof smock to boot! Clearly it's in the genes : ) Look at the size of that rifle, I've never seen anything like it.

 

[Roughwear]

Great pictures. I like the posed action shot. The sheepskin jacket is interesting, resembling a D-1 rather than an Irvin as it seems to lack the half belt and sleeve zips.

 

[Bombing IP]

Never did a gun safety course ? look where that double barrel is pointed Dick Cheney style !
BIP :lol:

 

[2BM2K]

The long "rifle" could be a punt gun.

 

[JDAM]

Great pictures. I like the posed action shot. The sheepskin jacket is interesting, resembling a D-1 rather than an Irvin as it seems to lack the half belt and sleeve zips.

You could well be right. I hadn't looked closely. Probably liberated it from a yank who'd shot himself. :lol:

 

[JDAM]

Never did a gun safety course ? look where that double barrel is pointed Dick Cheney style !
BIP :lol:

Nah, they probably never got around to it in 3 Commando.

 

[JDAM]

The long "rifle" could be a punt gun.

Interesting. Just read up on 'punt guns' and they sound quite handy. So effective that they were outlawed in the UK.

 

[Bombing IP]

The long "rifle" could be a punt gun.

Interesting. Just read up on 'punt guns' and they sound quite handy. So effective that they were outlawed in the UK.

What gun has not been outlawed in the UK I ask .Or every gun is outlawed in the UK .

 

[Bombing IP]

Youe pictures have been deleted my friend .

BIP

 

[JDAM]

The long "rifle" could be a punt gun.

Interesting. Just read up on 'punt guns' and they sound quite handy. So effective that they were outlawed in the UK.

What gun has not been outlawed in the UK I ask .Or every gun is outlawed in the UK .

That's a fallacy. But if you're interested, there are plenty of online resources that'll provide you an overview of UK law and gun ownership. With regards the 'punt gun', the UK seems to have followed the US lead - seems the use/practice was outlawed back in the 1860s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun

Remarkably progressive.

Not sure what you mean by the photos being deleted. I can see them fine.

 

[Bombing IP]

Just spent a Sunday afternoon flicking through the old family album and unearthed these photos. My grandfather and one of his pals on leave, early 1944. An Irvin and a windproof smock to boot! Clearly it's in the genes : ) Look at the size of that rifle, I've never seen anything like it.

This is what I see at my end

The gun thing too long winded do not want to get into it thanks (just a comment) , I am an English ex pat living in NYC

 

[JDAM]

photobucket f-up

 

[Bombing IP]

Ludwig Wittgenstein = Me I guess with regard to being misunderstood .
Guilty as charged , the reason I left the forum many years ago .

BIP

 

[Roughwear]

Ludwig Wittgenstein = Me I guess with regard to being misunderstood .
Guilty as charged , the reason I left the forum many years ago .

BIP

So who were you then? Perhaps you could formally introduce yourself?

 

[JDAM]

Ludwig Wittgenstein = Me I guess with regard to being misunderstood .
Guilty as charged , the reason I left the forum many years ago .

BIP

So who were you then? Perhaps you could formally introduce yourself?

English ex-pats in NYC. That narrows the field to about a million.

btw, now I can't see my images... err, god knows what the problem is.