Utterly Mad

I could live with that. The peasants might not though.

d; have fun.

I'm not sure whether to be impressed or amused.

So, I was going to do a write up of my "in the meantime" project (giant steampunk shotgun got me thinking and I needed something to do while my 1911 parts are on order), but we just had an estate sale come through, and I managed to snag a few more "classical guns" from it.

While most of the pistols I really like are semis, I have an embarrassingly large old military bolt action collection. The first two here just got added to that.







I'm not too sure when it happened, but somewhere along the line I've become an oddball Mauser collector. This is probably the second neatest one I own (pics of the neatest some day) - it's a Swedish built .308 cavalry carbine, and as far as I can tell, it was built sometime in the 1960s - well after anyone should be making Mausers or still equipping cavalry. It's gonna come shoot a pig with me when we go back out there next month.







If you don't know what that is, then you need to get the fuck out of my thread. I'm kidding. Partially. That's a Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk 1 made in the Longbranch factory. I've already dropped it twice, but it was mint just a few hours ago when I bought it. I used to have a good Enfield collection, but they go for absurd prices up here and I sold them off to pay for my wedding (bad call, that one). This one is also really late production - 1950s, so it was cheap. Yay.







This one is a little weird, and not one I just got. It's a Swiss Vetterli in .41 Swiss. It's getting traded off to get the thing I need for the "in the meantime" project cannon-gun-thing. It's kinda neat looking I guess, but worthless and I'm not even sure why I have it. So away it goes.

And as a bonus since I didn't really put any "art" in the form of a project in this post:







This is probably the single most expensive pistol I've ever owned (let's not talk about rifles). It's a pre-War military Mauser C96, in 98% condition, with matching numbers, matching sheath, and matching holster/stock. I've been in this business for a while, and you NEVER see more than one or two guns like this one, in the shape it's in anyway, in your life. Unfortunately, this was sold to pay some debts to a buddy of mine, so I can't claim it as my pretty anymore, but he's never taken it out of storage here, so I can still snap pictures. When he goes broke, I plan on buying it back from him - he got a good deal on it (like, a couple thousand bucks off), so hopefully he'll return the favor to me.

Anyway, next gun related update will be something kinda different, and will be posted when the project is done - there's not much to look at until then. Just though you guys might like the old stuff.

Yeah, George Lucas wrecked alot of nice old German guns for those movies. Also some Stirling subguns, which kinda balances it out.

Oh! Salty! You should come join the Azmodal RP!

The minute you mentioned you had a collection of old bolt action rifles I was going to ask if you had a Lee Enfield, I'd have been extremely dissapointed if you didn't own one of the finest rifles ever built*. Always been a dream of mine to own a few, they're just ludicrously difficult to obtain in Britain, oddly enough.

*Being British, I am legally required to say this, though I do agree with it.

Hard for me to say which of the WWII-era classic rifles I'd drool about most. Honestly I've never cared much for bolt-actions, partly because left-handed and such, and also because lever-actions are more drool-worthy to me. :V

Yeah, it's all about levers for me, as I've sorta already stated with my preference for 1887s.

Marlins and Winchesters man <3

As tempting as an 1887 would be, in practical terms I'd enjoy a pump-action just as much, which would be be easier and cheaper to find. Not to mention you don't have the automatic vibe of "hey this guy probably only bought that because of Terminator 2" as a result. XP

Already touched on the gimmicky part too. It sucks, but I'd only own a gun for me and my enjoyment, and most of my friends know nothing about movies anyways xP

Pump-actions are nice and all still, though. And even if I opted for a more conventional shotgun I'd probably still get a nice Marlin carbine eventually.