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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.

Heck of an original poster collection as well

Into stainless.

Who has 3 drillings

Shoulder stocked pistol that are all correct, nice set.

And books in every corner. More research to be do here.

New equipment for the shop, part 2 of the weekend trip

We went up and saw a friend that had an older tumbler that he wanted to get ride of and thought of me. At the shop all the de-buring work has been completed by hand, which if you do this type of work, is a long process. This unit is not a really large unit but big enough for the smaller parts that we make.

I have it setting next to a large Dillon unit to show the comparison of size. It should make life a little easier.

weekend road trip first stop

My wife and I started a weekend trip to pick up a new piece of equipment for the machine shop and on the way there we did a quick stop at Reata Pass Auctions to look at the new items they had for the up coming auction.

This is not a normal type of post for me as Ian at forgotten weapons generally does auction posts. However there were a number of interesting items in the up coming auction that I thought would show you a few of them. It seems that a collector of WW2 rifles has decided to put his collection up for sale. There was a very good representation of French rifles, but the one that caught my attention was a MAS 34. This is a Bethier converted to 7.5 French.

A rifle that is not common at all.

Another military rifle that was interesting was the 98/40 with bayonet.

A close up to look at the markings.

One that caught mt attention was the pin fire pepper box pistol. I really like odd and unusual and this fits the bill.

And as I have a thing for the Martini-Henry rifle I was excited to see a target model of a small action 22lr rifle. This is a nice shooter piece.

The one I really would like to buy but have no money for is the miniature 22 Gatling gun.

I think it matches my eyes, what do you think.

If you have a chance stop by and have a look, they are real nice people. There catalog is on line and with over 1000 weapons there is something to check out http://reatapassauctions.com/.