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Rare Carcano rifle

Chuck — Wed, 25 May 2016 08:00:52 +0000

In my youth I had the opportunity to look at and take a couple of pictures of a very rare Carcano rifle. Judging on the way I look, with hair and all and not that many wrinkles, these pictures were taken 35 years ago or so. It is not often that you get to see something as rare as this and I wish I would have taken a few more pictures. This is a Moschetto Model 1891 (carbine)

A view of the top of the rifle

Close up of the receiver area

Another view of the receiver

The crest in the side of the stock

Archive Photo of the Lowell Gun

Chuck — Thu, 07 May 2015 08:00:38 +0000

Here are two pictures of a Lowell gun. It came out during the time of the Gatling, Nordenfelt and Gardener gun but at the very end of that time period. Only a few were ever made and I was lucky to photograph this one before the museum closed.

Some where in the archives I have more pictures and will post them at a later date.

From the days of 35mm photography.

Archive Photo 4-9-15

Chuck — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:28:19 +0000

I took these pictures in South Carolina about 10 years ago. This is a ships landing gun and is an interesting piece.

If anyone has information on this weapon I would appreciate hearing about it.

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Chuck — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:35:45 +0000

Years ago when I was a young lad I had the hots for a tank,I later owned a Ferret scout car, but I wanted a tracked vehicle. That is when I knew little to nothing about them and the work involved in maintaining them. I must also mention that I am 6’4″ and could not fit in any tank that interested me. This set of pictures is from a private tank museum that is no longer in business, but I really liked this cute little pre-WW2 tank. I have no idea where the tank has gone to so if someone knows please let me know. I would like to take photo’s of the inside one day. I must also mention that I am not a vehicle guy but a gun guy. This means that I want the tank as an accessory for my guns and not the other way around. I use to own a m-2 50 cal machine gun, a Lathe 20 mm cannon and a number of 1919’s so I thought this would be the perfect toy to carry them around in at a shoot.

Here are the pictures of this cute toy.

A frontal view.

Close up of the main armament in this model

right side angle view.

Here are a few pictures from an old magazine.

A crew of 4.

a great cut away of the tank

The armament it carried

It used a 235h.p. radial airplane type engine with a max speed of 35mph on the road and 5mph in the open country.

Archive Photo.

Chuck — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:00:58 +0000

This is another in a series of pictures that I took over 20 years ago. I had and still have a thing about artillery I have always wanted a piece of artillery of my own but never seem to have the funds available when they came up for sale. So for now I will just take pictures of them.

This cannon was just to cute not to take pictures of it.

Archive Photo’s 3-12

Chuck — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:00:34 +0000

I shot these pictures while at Woolwick at the Rotunda. It was an absolutely great museum. It has since been closed down and replaced with a typical diorama walk through everything behind glass museum. In its day it was a place where you could study some small arms, but mostly artillery up close. I spent numerous vacations there.

This is a weapon design by an unknown Africaan during the Boer war to keep the heads of the British soldiers down while they escaped. It is a clock weapon. The feed device seems to be missing but what you would do with this weapons is to set it for how fast you wanted the weapon to fire. One round a minute or one round every 5 minutes or more.

A side view showing the complete size of the weapon

In this picture you can see the cartridge being picked up to be fed into the barrel

I am not sure this was ever used or just a prototype that was made and not completed. It is however an interesting design and concept.

New area at Gun Lab

Chuck — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:00:06 +0000

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.