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A 22lr EM-2

Chuck — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:00:17 +0000

A friend who has passed made this copy of an EM-2 in 22lr. It is amazing what people can come up with. Defiantly an interesting rifle.

Right and left side views of the rifle.

Look closely at the markings on the carrying handle base

Rear sight and carrying handle

Rear butt plate

Added ejection port cover

Magazine release and rear cover

cocking handle

Magazine housing

left side showing the cocking handle, grip and trigger

A couple of views of the front site and base

Front band

Front sling swivel

1945 Lithgow 22 trainer

Chuck — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:00:59 +0000

John a friend of Gun Lab recently sent me some pictures of an addition to his collection as he knows that I have a thing for 22 trainers. This is a Lithgow SMLE 111* rifle that is in 22 lr. According to the available references on this rifle they were put together by Jovino in the 1980’s. Still it is a very nice rifle and something I would love to own or build. A couple of views of the markings on the rifle

A left side view of the receiver.

The original sight was kept on the rifle

A close up of the front sight and rifle muzzle and cap.

Now on to the bolt.

A close up of the bolt head.

You can see the off set firing pin hole for a 22lr rim fire round.

Just a quick look at what the print for a new bolt head would look like. It would be an interesting build.

The rifle was a single shot only and the magazine body was use to catch the ejected cartridges.

Still with the standard brass butt plate.

For more information of 22 caliber Enfield rifles you should check out the following references.

Tokarev 22 trainer

Chuck — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 08:00:30 +0000

I kind of have a thing for Tokarev pistols. I do have a variety of them and I also think they are one of the interesting hand guns to come out of WW 2. They combined the design of John M. Browning with the manufacturing techniques they had available. I am not going into the history of the TT 33 Tokarev, it has already been written about on the internet . I just found on my trip through the mid-west this last year a new version that I have never seen before. The 22 trainer. Here are a set of pictures that I took of one of the pistols that I looked at. It seems that everyone out there has one because I saw a number of them.

A close up of the inset cartridge.

Sorry about this picture. I tried to get a close up of the slide bolt face to show the firing pin location.

This is how it came with the 7 sub-caliber devices.

I don’t know if this pistol was actually used in the military training or just a pistol made for the civilian market. I just know that I would really like one. So if anyone knows were one exists one for sale please let me know.

Sunday answer for 10-5

Chuck — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 14:34:04 +0000

The item on Saturday’s post.

Is a 22lr cartridge adapter for a MAS 36 training rifle. This is as it looks next to a 22lr cartridge.

This is with the 22lr cartridge in the adapter.

Next to the rifle.

In the magazine of the rifle.

You can see the special feed ramp for this caliber in the follower.

Here are a few pictures from Jean Huon’s book “Les Fusils Francais A Verrou” showing the cut away of the adapter and a black and white photo of the adapter.

If you don’t have Jean Huon series of books you should get them. Even if can not read French the pictures are well worth the price.