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Cut away L1A1.

It was brought to my attention,by one of my favorite blogs, that I was a little lacking on my cut away post of the FAL. I am sorry as I knew that some where I had a few more photos. It took a while to locate them but here they are to help anyone with an interested in the FAL/L1A1 rifle. This will be picture heavy so enjoy.

I hope this helps. If you have a chance please go to http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/ as it is one of my favorite go to sites.

New area at Gun Lab

Part of what was accomplished this last weekend was going through old photo’s that I have taken over the last 40 years and started converting them to digital format. These are pictures of cannons, tanks, aircraft and of course small arms. Some are just a basic picture and some are very detailed photo’s of individual weapons. I have decided to do a once a week archive post. A great deal of these pictures I have no idea what there are, just that the individual item interested me. Most of these were taken with either a cheap 35 mm camera or my better 35mm camera, so if think my digital pictures are bad, well these will probably be worse. The thing is that most of these museums have since boxed up these items and they are no longer out for viewing some even destroyed. Even some of the private items have been sold and lost to the rest of us.

This first picture was taken over 38 years ago in Charleston, South Carolina at the battery. This is a picture perfect location with some of the nicest people that you will ever meet. In fact I met my wife in Charleston 35 years ago and we walked this park on a number of occasions.

This is a Hotchkiss revolving cannon. I don’t know if it is still there or not, but if it is you should take a visit there.

Cut away rifle L1A1

This is a cut away of the L1A1 rifle.

A close up of the receiver area.This is one I would like to have in my collection.

Interesting old prototype rifles

On my last trip over seas I was able to take a few pictures, that was behind glass, that turn out okay. Generally poor lighting and glass reflection caused a large number of bad pictures. These are the French Military Museum. If you are ever in Paris you should stop by there. It is an interesting museum.

Thanks for stopping by.

Weekend update part 2 3-1-15

With the weather being bad all weekend it takes all the fun out of working outside. It was also impossible to bring in material of the project in the wood shop. To wet to go shooting. So what to do, that is the question. I continued working on improving my digital photography. I also went through my older pictures and scanned them to the computer, well about 1/2 of them. But that gets old quick so I needed something to make me feel like I did something productive this weekend. I decided to build a photo back drop in the pantry. I had enough material in the wood shop for it and I have been wanting one for awhile. The next task will be to build a mufti-function holding contraption. I got the idea from Reed Knight’s photographer.

This is the back drop that I finished to day.

Front sideBack sideIt is design so that I can put sides on it if the item to be photographed is larger.

Weekend Photo session, rare and engraved Walther

I had the opportunity this weekend due to the rain and miserable weather to do some indoor photographing. I used this as a chance to practice taking pictures in low light with no flash, as if I were in a museum.

This set I am showing you are pictures of a very beautiful Walther PPK in 380 with a bottom release magazine. This is a 1930 original engraved pistol that is beyond belief.

This is the worst one. I did not get a close enough picture and not enough depth of field.

Let me know what you think. There was no photoshop done to any of these pictures. I did used paint to reduce the size. I hope you enjoyed them. My next task is to make a stand to hold rifles and pistols. I am still trying to improve my picture taking skills. All comments are appreciated.

Sunday answer 3-1-15

The pictures from Saturday.

This is a bolt carrier for a Farquhar-Hill rifle. This bolt is from a drum type rifle. Here are a few pictures of it.

Rear sight

Gas system

Front of the drum

Top of the drum. Notice no feed lips. That was in the receiver itself.

This is the magazine version of the Farquhar-Hill rifle.

What is it Saturday

Cut away weapons Dutch Mannlicher rifle

This post is on the bolt action Dutch Mannlicher rifle. Again I must apologize for the photograph. This was on the same trip trying to learn how to use the camera.

I am working at getting better taking pictures.

Weekend trip part 3, looking at gun rooms

While on the trip I wanted to look and photograph a few guns for up coming posts. The owners were nice enough to let me take pictures of their gun room and post them. No address or names but some interesting weapons. I enjoy looking at gun rooms from the smallest to the largest. Some times it is not the guns but the rooms that are interesting and some time it is just about the guns. This first post is a room of a guy that likes everything and it is from him that I was able to borrow the rifles that I will be posting about next week. However, I think there will be a lot more interesting pictures and information coming from here.

This what you see walking into the room last the vault door.

As you look around the room you can something of interest in every corner.