Thanks Nick that one is dated 1916 i do like a good smelly.
Andy
Andy
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That's a cracking job you've done on the 18 pounder Alan, not surprised it took you ages!
Dave.
Gustaf
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Hey Andy
Is the discharge cup marked. Is is an old one or one that hit the markets a few years ago, when they arrived here, they were going for $75, and you got a #1 MKIII wth them. That was before I had my license, and I could not get my dealer to order one for me.
My SMLE is dated 1913, but sadly, the rear volley sight is broken. I am not a big fan of the SMLE, as when I shoot it, the bolt handle hits me in the web between the thumb and index finger, and it hurts a bit. Does anyone else have this problem, or am I just a deformed freak?
Gus
Gustaf
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Both? argh... you are killing me
Gus
PS I keep forgetting that things are a bit different in the wild west
**** Just Realised, These three aren't Grenades 
) ...Ooops ****
Here are my three, based on my interest, rarity and cos they weren't particularly cheap)
1. German 15 cm Wgr. 41 Nb. Nebelwerfer
(See [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TGnsJ7607E"]YouTube- German Nebelwerfer[/ame] - Nebelwerfer firing) - If anyone has a Russian M13 132mm Katysha rocket, please let me know
Item 1
2. British 290mm Petard Mortar
(See [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAT4_r6zvto"]YouTube- Churchill Tank[/ame] Churchill AVRE with Petard Mortar at Bovington Tank Museum) - If anyone has any 3in or 95mm Close Support rounds, please let me know
Item 2
3. French 75mm L17.1 Obus explosif Mle1915M
(See [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JJqDIQOuJE"]YouTube- B1 Bis Musée des Blindés[/ame] - French Char B1-bis at Saumur Tank Museum) - If anyone has the correct RYG MLE 1921 Fuze, please let me know
Item 3
Cheers, Rich
) ...Ooops ****Here are my three, based on my interest, rarity and cos they weren't particularly cheap
)1. German 15 cm Wgr. 41 Nb. Nebelwerfer
(See [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TGnsJ7607E"]YouTube- German Nebelwerfer[/ame] - Nebelwerfer firing) - If anyone has a Russian M13 132mm Katysha rocket, please let me know
Item 1
2. British 290mm Petard Mortar
(See [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAT4_r6zvto"]YouTube- Churchill Tank[/ame] Churchill AVRE with Petard Mortar at Bovington Tank Museum) - If anyone has any 3in or 95mm Close Support rounds, please let me know
Item 2
3. French 75mm L17.1 Obus explosif Mle1915M
(See [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JJqDIQOuJE"]YouTube- B1 Bis Musée des Blindés[/ame] - French Char B1-bis at Saumur Tank Museum) - If anyone has the correct RYG MLE 1921 Fuze, please let me know
Item 3
Cheers, Rich
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dano1917
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favorite 3 a tall order
I've been watching this thread pretty close and the one thing that we all pretty much seem to have in common is the fact that it is hard to pick three items to call your best. All my "favorite" stuff ends up in the trench portion of my bunker of which I could pick any three on any given day (although I realize my meager collection is barely worthy of this fine forum). My new BOCN patches (thanks JollyGreen) made it in there which may give an idea as to just how much I like them. Then the pic of the Fokker Eindecker backs up the ordnance. Aw hell what I am trying to say that my three favorite can change on a daily basis. But keep it going as everyone is posting some fine stuff in this thread. This pic is the fourth favorite thing in my life after my wife, our collective children and my dog Buster (Buster is a trip). This is what makes Dano happy....dano
I've been watching this thread pretty close and the one thing that we all pretty much seem to have in common is the fact that it is hard to pick three items to call your best. All my "favorite" stuff ends up in the trench portion of my bunker of which I could pick any three on any given day (although I realize my meager collection is barely worthy of this fine forum). My new BOCN patches (thanks JollyGreen) made it in there which may give an idea as to just how much I like them. Then the pic of the Fokker Eindecker backs up the ordnance. Aw hell what I am trying to say that my three favorite can change on a daily basis. But keep it going as everyone is posting some fine stuff in this thread. This pic is the fourth favorite thing in my life after my wife, our collective children and my dog Buster (Buster is a trip). This is what makes Dano happy....dano
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Jolly Green
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Well Dano it sure is nice to see the BOCN patches displayed in such a prominent place.
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I'm in agreement that it's just about impossible for me to narrow the choice down to three items. But it's safe to say these three are among my best. As this is an ordnance forum, I'll choose two that are grenade related but allow me to slip one gun in to the mix.
The submachine gun in the upper part of the display is a Hyde-Inland M2 and was part of a display two of us put together for our annual gun collectors club show a few months ago. Most of the data on this piece can be read on the display card, but in brief, it was adopted to replace the M1A1 and other Thompsons and was itself replaced by the M3 grease gun just a year later after only 400 were produced.
I know of only one outside the U.S. in the former Pattern Room collection and just two in private hands over here. It's live and functional although I haven't fired it often as spare parts are nonexistant if something breaks.
Next is the Babbitt sling grenade I posted a couple photos of here in August. It now sports a reproduction firing pin and hood assembly and is more or less complete, although the streamers are pretty rough. I regard this as one of the scarcest of U.S. service grenades as they were only issued for about 7 years and never in combat, as near as I can determine.
Most American grenade collectors would probably consider the Civil War era Haines Excelsior to be the most rare and desirable hand grenade with sales values of existing samples known to exceed $10,000. And no, I don't own one of them but sure wish I did. At the gun show mentioned earlier, two other collectors were present that own 7 Haines grenades between them! Neither had ever seen or heard of another Babbitt.
Last is the Panzerwurfmine 1(L), my favorite German stick grenade. I have a thing for personal hand thrown anti-tank grenades like this, the Russian RKG-3, RPG-43, and even the factory produced Molotov cocktails. They seem to convey the incredible bravery, desperation, or perhaps insanity of soldiers who go up against a tank single handed with just a grenade to stop it. No standoff distance, fancy rocket launchers, tungsten or DU penetrators fired safely from shielded artillery, just run up and kill a 30 ton armored vehicle all by yourself.
The submachine gun in the upper part of the display is a Hyde-Inland M2 and was part of a display two of us put together for our annual gun collectors club show a few months ago. Most of the data on this piece can be read on the display card, but in brief, it was adopted to replace the M1A1 and other Thompsons and was itself replaced by the M3 grease gun just a year later after only 400 were produced.
I know of only one outside the U.S. in the former Pattern Room collection and just two in private hands over here. It's live and functional although I haven't fired it often as spare parts are nonexistant if something breaks.
Next is the Babbitt sling grenade I posted a couple photos of here in August. It now sports a reproduction firing pin and hood assembly and is more or less complete, although the streamers are pretty rough. I regard this as one of the scarcest of U.S. service grenades as they were only issued for about 7 years and never in combat, as near as I can determine.
Most American grenade collectors would probably consider the Civil War era Haines Excelsior to be the most rare and desirable hand grenade with sales values of existing samples known to exceed $10,000. And no, I don't own one of them but sure wish I did. At the gun show mentioned earlier, two other collectors were present that own 7 Haines grenades between them! Neither had ever seen or heard of another Babbitt.
Last is the Panzerwurfmine 1(L), my favorite German stick grenade. I have a thing for personal hand thrown anti-tank grenades like this, the Russian RKG-3, RPG-43, and even the factory produced Molotov cocktails. They seem to convey the incredible bravery, desperation, or perhaps insanity of soldiers who go up against a tank single handed with just a grenade to stop it. No standoff distance, fancy rocket launchers, tungsten or DU penetrators fired safely from shielded artillery, just run up and kill a 30 ton armored vehicle all by yourself.
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Time to Resurect This Forgotten Thread I Think
Thought i would add my three favourite items to this thread, they might not always be but for this week anyway here we go....
1. 36M MK1 taken off the production line in 1940.
2. Brass Cased 8.8 cm Pzgr39 Round.
3. 2cm Hatkern Pzgr 40.
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Thought i would add my three favourite items to this thread, they might not always be but for this week anyway here we go....
1. 36M MK1 taken off the production line in 1940.
2. Brass Cased 8.8 cm Pzgr39 Round.
3. 2cm Hatkern Pzgr 40.
All Empty and Inert
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Caracal
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hard to choose....
1) It's a box for 3cm Mk103 Hartkern L'Spur (30mm tungsten armour piercing with tracer round for Luftwaffe planes). It's the only one i have ever seen, and i have never found any picture or drawing of it, except official Luftwaffe document indicating the total weight and the number of rounds in it. I can say, in the conditions i have found it (it was used as a tool box by the seller...), that is was a miracle that the condition has been so good.
2) A french 47mm AT round of 1939 (47mm Mle 1937) for the best AT weapon of the Battle of France in 1940. The story of the projectile is funny, i got it for 5 euros, the seller, an old woman, didn't want this "thing" (as she said) anymore in her house.
3) A "mint" MG 151/20 round, with great black stencyls on it.
If i have to leave my collection, these ones would be the last!
1) It's a box for 3cm Mk103 Hartkern L'Spur (30mm tungsten armour piercing with tracer round for Luftwaffe planes). It's the only one i have ever seen, and i have never found any picture or drawing of it, except official Luftwaffe document indicating the total weight and the number of rounds in it. I can say, in the conditions i have found it (it was used as a tool box by the seller...), that is was a miracle that the condition has been so good.
2) A french 47mm AT round of 1939 (47mm Mle 1937) for the best AT weapon of the Battle of France in 1940. The story of the projectile is funny, i got it for 5 euros, the seller, an old woman, didn't want this "thing" (as she said) anymore in her house.
3) A "mint" MG 151/20 round, with great black stencyls on it.
If i have to leave my collection, these ones would be the last!
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Caracal
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Thanks Weasel! my 3 items are maybe not as great as other ones shown on this topic, but I have a special "link" with them. I have more valuable things in my collection but that's the ones i prefer!
Your -nice- 2cm Pzgr40 has a tracer plug on the back? i have seen one on the website www.municion.org with a red tracer band, but without the BD fuze.
regards