Cocker
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Took the Saginaw out on Sunday to have a look for the Easter Bunny. No luck, could only score some cardboard...
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One for the gun boys
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Took the Saginaw out on Sunday to have a look for the Easter Bunny. No luck, could only score some cardboard...
STEVE S.
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Took the Saginaw out on Sunday to have a look for the Easter Bunny. No luck, could only score some cardboard...
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when my grandad got the Rockola, it was one of those $3.50 purchases when you renewed your NRA membership. An uncle bought one too & it was a Saginaw. A cousin got it about 20 yrs ago & he’s dead now so don’t know what happened to it.
Chandler
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I have a couple old firearm magazines from the early or mid-60s that have ads for surplus rifles around those prices. Heart breaking.
Here's a 20 -- fill me up!
Cocker
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Dangit... Dunno for how much they're going in the US now, but prices are coming up a lot for the M1 Carbines here. I was lucky I snagged mine for 400EUR about 7 years ago.
Well, my girlfriend snagged it for 400EUR as a Christmas gift for me, so...
Cocker
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Yeah, at the time she bought it for me, a regular price for a good condition was already around 500EUR. Bear in mind the config in the picture is not exactly how it was when I got it. Basically, it has all the 43 features (high wood, flat bolt, push safety, L sight and early mag catch). I just swapped pieces to have a somewhat Korean War/Vietnam War model, seen everything can be changed back to original configuration easily.
MauldinFan
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And you'll see almost no photos of one with a bayonet lug in the ETO while the war was still going.
Mine was made by Inland, very early production. I got it in the early 90s, when original parts were easy to fund. It has all original everything, including a flat topped bolt and push button safety.
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ausreenactor
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The M1 Carbine is where it all started for me. As a 12yo Dad's Inland was the rockstar in many grainy Kodak pictures. THE Melbourne made M-41, some farby HBT trousers and a WWII surplus Aussie issued M-1 helmet. Fast forward 40 years and the love for that sleek little Carbine has never faded.
Would kill for a folding stock Denix!
MauldinFan
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A carbine was supposed to be issued to all USAAF bombers, but in real life, it didn't happen as often as the regs called for.
The only time it'd come in handy would be if the crew remained with it in a forced landing in enemy country, which very rarely happened.
Most of the time a bomber wasn't gonna make it's way back to friendly lines, you'd want to jump with a parachute. All those USAAF carbines had the full stocks, and without weapons cases, how would you jump out carrying one and not have to worry about it harming you on the opening or landing shocks, or get tangled in shroud lines?
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Chandler
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I have the solid feeling many guys would take the chance. I know I would in order to have another weapon (another, because I'm sure I'd have a .45 as well as, at least, one knife of some sort).
MauldinFan
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Generally, most aircrew surrendered right away unless they were very close to their lines, in the ETO, anyway.
The alternative is the local civilians might pitchfork you to death once you ran out of ammo, or get shot by German soldaten. It's not like you could escape and evade on your own maybe over a hundred miles or more from your own ground forces.
B-Man2
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That’s factually incorrect. A little fact checking on Google will provide more accurate information if anyone is interested .
uknowledge.uky.edu
Silent Heroes: Downed Airmen and the French Underground
In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crew members, supplied with “escape kits,” knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning home. An estimated...
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Chandler
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Amazon.com: Coffin Corner Boys: One Bomber, Ten Men, and Their Harrowing Escape from Nazi-Occupied France: 9781621576266: Avriett, Carole Engle, Starks, Capt. George W.: Books
Amazon.com: Coffin Corner Boys: One Bomber, Ten Men, and Their Harrowing Escape from Nazi-Occupied France: 9781621576266: Avriett, Carole Engle, Starks, Capt. George W.: Books
www.amazon.com
Well worth a read.
ausreenactor
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ausreenactor
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Wss going to put the last post in the Scale Model thread.
The M-41 Pulse Rifle is a shooter....
The M-41 Pulse Rifle is a shooter....
ausreenactor
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Good things come to those who wait...
Inbound..
DENIX REPLICA U.S. ARMY M1A1 CARBINE PARATROOPER RIFLE
Scarce Denix Replica of the world famous WWII U.S. ARMY M1A1 PARATROOPER CARBINE RIFLE. rare paratrooper model with Folding Stock, USA 1941. World War II issue with Folding Rear Leaf Sight. Rifle sling is included. SCARCE ONLY 3 RIFLES ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA WITH FOLDING STOCK. The M1 Carbine...
