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Picked up a trifecta of Three-Line Rifles yesterday. All from 1917 and 1918. None with import marks. When I get a chance, I'll photograph all of them individually and give them their own threads.
But in the mean time, the first member to FULLY identify the armories, years, special marks/features and countries of origin/import, in ORDER from top to bottom, wins a fabulous prize. Be specific and complete. There should be enough clues in the pics to identify them all.
Nice collection, US issue is aways a good find, I see a Remington in there, a Finn Sestroryetsk, I would guess at a Westinghouse maybe. My eyes will not pick out small shit. Good haul I see at least one of them has the Austrian W, cool.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Junk Yard Dog wrote:Nice collection, US issue is aways a good find, I see a Remington in there, a Finn Sestroryetsk, I would guess at a Westinghouse maybe. My eyes will not pick out small shit. Good haul I see at least one of them has the Austrian W, cool.
Well, even for bad eyesight, you did get a couple of the armories and a special feature or two.
But no fabulous prize for you! Just flea bites....
Wow. Beautiful trifecta for sure. I will have to look them over good but I know I'm too slow to be in the running. What is the story on those flea bites? Is that your son? My goodness, that looks miserable!
Nice find. I would kill for a one fecta right now. A remington 1918 finned, an izhevsk 1917 finned and something else not finned.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
Very nice! Im jealous! I would love to get into some of the 1891's. Unfortunately I have a champaign appetite and a beer wallet!
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1917 Finned Sestroryetsk in a soviet Austrian captured stock with plugged sling rope holes
1917 tula? With austro-hungarian or spanish sling hangers non finned, is it a Spanish SCW rifle?
1918 US surcharged Remington stayed in the USA?
How did I do?
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racerguy00 wrote:1917 Finned Sestroryetsk in a soviet Austrian captured stock with plugged sling rope holes
1917 tula? With austro-hungarian or spanish sling hangers non finned, is it a Spanish SCW rifle?
1918 US surcharged Remington stayed in the USA?
How did I do?
A brave soul, and a good effort!
One is dead on. Another has a quasi-identification of sling hangers. Another is VERY close, but for the year.
You are following along well with the contest, but no grand prize. How about a sheep?
Wait, IIRC aren't your rifles magically imported from a pipe in your gun room?
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bunkysdad wrote:Wow. Beautiful trifecta for sure. I will have to look them over good but I know I'm too slow to be in the running. What is the story on those flea bites? Is that your son? My goodness, that looks miserable!
Heh, heh. No, no relation except by residency in the grand State of Maine. These are actually "Black-fly" bites, and not fleas. Black-flies develop in dense cloudy swarms from eggs hatching in the warming fresh water every spring, from mid April to late June. And they can be vicious!
I just thought that a Junk Yard Dog might relate better to the flea analogy.
racerguy00 wrote:Wait, IIRC aren't your rifles magically imported from a pipe in your gun room?
The pneumatic delivery tube that is drilled through the center of the earth....
Flea bites? Don't get me started, I just had to bomb the shop last month after fleas got out of hand and near ate the cat. They didn't bother me as I wear repellent for the ticks anyway, but drove the shop mice crazy. Sorry, I was away all day yesterday, didn't have time to get back to this.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Well the dates make a NEW impossible so it has to be a tula, izhevsk and remington. Unless one is a Sestroryetsk. One is not had the barrel bands changed so i am thinking it is an Izhevsk.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
desdem12 wrote:Well the dates make a NEW impossible so it has to be a tula, izhevsk and remington. Unless one is a Sestroryetsk. One is not had the barrel bands changed so i am thinking it is an Izhevsk.
JYD hit two arsenals right out of the gate. NEW is ruled out. Tula and Izhevsk are not in the picture.
I see at least one of them has the Austrian W, cool.
