You're gonna need another gun rack! Nice collection!I've been working on my WWII collection since 2004. I still need that elusive Norwegian Krag–Jørgensen and a Chiang Kai-Shek Mauser(...holding out for one a bit nicer than the one in the link).
You're gonna need another gun rack! Nice collection!I've been working on my WWII collection since 2004. I still need that elusive Norwegian Krag–Jørgensen and a Chiang Kai-Shek Mauser(...holding out for one a bit nicer than the one in the link).
^^^^^^^Wow, very nice Rob. I think I recognize two of those rifles. They are on the wall in my gun room. I have been collecting for a long time and can't quite match that collection.
Well, I value those two rifles highly and appreciate you selling them to me. If I ever decide to let one go you will be my first contact. (As you already have.)Yes, they are, and Mad Anthony Wayne has one, but you knew that.
I think there are a few more that went to INGOers, but I don't remember who.
It really was easy to put together a collection like that when I started, it would be much more difficult to do today. Most of them sell for 10X what I paid, but wages haven't changed much.
I think Google listed the total Mk3's produced at 17 Million. Yet, it is still hard to find them nowadays. I have two No1 Mk3 and two No4 Mk1 rifles and really like them.They were making Mk IIIs in India in 303 till 1961 or 1962... Longer if you count the 7.62 caliber rifles...
Seems the 20th century always needed more Mk IIIs .
I think Google listed the total Mk3's produced at 17 Million. Yet, it is still hard to find them nowadays. I have two No1 Mk3 and two No4 Mk1 rifles and really like them.
Well, I value those two rifles highly and appreciate you selling them to me. If I ever decide to let one go you will be my first contact. (As you already have.)
I haven't been very systematic in my collecting and have ended up with some duplicates just because I couldn't pass them up. I think I am finally reaching a point where I can let a couple go here and there but it's tough.
That is so true, I started out collecting WWII simply because it was cheap and what I could afford.
This is another lifetime ago for me too... what one wall of my basement TV room used to look like and done on a budget:
A bunch of them sold to finance the adoption of my son, some sold to finance a trip to Europe, some sold to finance my Civil War collection, so no regrets at all. It's just funny to think that this was once what was cheap!
That is really a good assessment DD. It honestly hurts to let them go knowing the future availability is so limited.Every time I think I can let a couple go, I have a helluva time deciding what they would be. Consequently it's been pretty rare that I've sold any. I've pretty much eliminated all my dupes (of old guns anyhow - my ARs could stand thinning out ). It would be like trying to decide which of your children you want to put up for adoption after you've already raised them!
Every time I think I can let a couple go, I have a helluva time deciding what they would be. Consequently it's been pretty rare that I've sold any. I've pretty much eliminated all my dupes (of old guns anyhow - my ARs could stand thinning out ). It would be like trying to decide which of your children you want to put up for adoption after you've already raised them!
Oh Hell I could pick a few of the Children to get rid of 1st.... now not being flippant.. you dump a kid off on a street corner on the other side of town (Or in another town for that fact).. Trust me somehow they make it back home.. Try that with a nice collectable rifle.. That sucker is gone..
Oh Hell I could pick a few of the Children to get rid of 1st.... now not being flippant.. you dump a kid off on a street corner on the other side of town (Or in another town for that fact).. Trust me somehow they make it back home.. Try that with a nice collectable rifle.. That sucker is gone..
They were making Mk IIIs in India in 303 till 1961 or 1962... Longer if you count the 7.62 caliber rifles...
Seems the 20th century always needed more Mk IIIs .
They were made later than that. There were made in 303 somewhere until 1965-1968. Production started again in 1986 and ended somewhere between 1989-1991. I have one made in 1986
They were made later than that. There were made in 303 somewhere until 1965-1968. Production started again in 1986 and ended somewhere between 1989-1991. I have one made in 1986
You're gonna need another gun rack! Nice collection!
Want to sell it?
Would love to see a couple of photos of that... amazing.. Any clue if the parts are interchangeable with earlier models??? It was a hell of a design... Look at those brutals in that documentary Zardoz, almost 300 years in the future and Enfields are still in working order, darn good primers...