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@HunterKiller308 I agree totally. The 1903 is an homage to the Mauser. I must say that it will mystify me to the end of my days, why they picked the Krag on the first go-round in selecting a new rifle for the Army, only to be bested by the mauser and later adopting a version of it the second go-r...

@jeffshootsstuff

You bet! Those Swedish Mauser clips work GREAT for the .30-06 round. I bought a bunch of them and loaded up a bunch of bandoliers for my 1903's and my M1917 as well. Having strippers to load your '03 takes shooting at the range to a new level.

They don't usually bury you with shoes on, either.

Yup. I stumbled across Lee and Kaluta's stuff in the 80's as an undergrad reading HEAVY METAL, and I bought their graphic comic. The best sense I could make of it was 'what would happen if the decaying decadent Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire had survived to explore outer space and was being tak...

@TheDynoSoar The M1917 was manufactured by ERA (Eddystone Remington Arms), Remington and Winchester. ERA made the most of them by far, but Remington and Winchester made many of them. Yours is a bit 'rarer' but the desirable one is the Winchester because they were considered the most accurate and ...

The only thing Bernard Fall 'lost' was his life when he stepped on a 'Bouncing Betty' during a patrol with the US Marines in February 1967. He was a courageous man, who was prescient enough to predict that the Americans would probably lose in Vietnam, largely due to the fact that they didn't unde...

I think the Sargent Cadet that dismissed Bent was U.S. Grant. He graduated the next year in 1843. The other cadets that introduced themselves were Stonewall Jackson, George Pickett, and George McClellan....all West Point plebes in the summer of 1842 and all graduating in 1846....and would later m...

Recent investigations and computer graphic technology suggest that the USS Maine probably was destroyed by an explosion resulting from a fire in the coal bunker that was adjacent to the powder magazine. Bad design and faulty safety precautions were the likely causes. Not that it mattered at the t...

Gloria Estefan is a 'once in a generation' talent. One of the finest that the American Latina community ever produced. I think it has a lot to do with her upbringing. Love of family, respect for her father, hard work, talent....and some luck. She is one of the few celebrities that NO ONE can even...

@hollies65 They should have put this on the Gold Record they sent into space with VOYAGER....not a bad message to send to an intelligent life form.

Boy, are you ever right about that one. McQueen looks like he was born in Naval Whites and looks dashing in Cracker Jacks. Simon Oakland looks like a slob in his uniform.

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@CMCommie Thanks! I was so impressed with his mod that I tried my hand at it. I was always annoyed at the German weapons the Italians had in 'Road to Rome' so I 'borrowed' some weapons from other mods and after tinkering a bit, I had the eye-ties using Carcanos and Berettas. This was for my own p...

@Iraqveteran8888 Hornady makes a nice .268 bullet with the rounded nose and a soft tip. I think your best bet would be to slug this barrel with a lead weight and get a caliper to measure the diameter from opposite land - land, groove - groove, and land - groove to get an idea what the best bulle...