Some recent additions to my collection

[Nyles]

A few recent additions:

I picked up this 1925 Oviedo Spanish Mauser M1893 recently, in pretty good shape, all matching except for the bolt. This is actually pretty interesting, because at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War when the Republican government armed all the left-wing militias (socialist Popular Front, communist International Brigades, anarchist CNT, Trotskyist POUM), rifles and bolts had been stored separately and no effort was made to match them up on issue. This accounts for alot of the reports of rifles jamming and blowing up on the Republican side. So it's probably not going to be a shooter (I'll have to get a set of headspace gauges), but it's a great piece of history. I'm currently reading George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and it's quite an interesting depiction of this time.





I also picked up that Winchester 1907 I've been wanting, a post-war model with the later improvements (heavier forend, enlarged plunger head) in really beautiful shape. However, I really want a pre-war model so I'm probably going to trade it for one at the next gun show I go to. The mean reason I bought this one is it came with the very rare 10 round law enforcement magazine (unfortunately pinned to 5 rounds, because this is Canada) and 50 rounds of ammo, and the price was right.

[Nyles]

Finally, and this is a little different from what I usually do, I came across an old 1930s Stevens 620 shotgun at work that someone had done some work on - reblued it, shortened the butt and added a rubber butt pad, replaced the missing front sight bead with a piece of solder. It was cheap ($100) so I decided I'd made a Clyde Barrow / John Dillinger style whippet gun for my gangster collection. I had the barrel cut down to 18" and shortened the stock. I suspect it's going to be miserable to shoot, but it makes a cool toy anyways!

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[funkychinaman]

Beautiful. Any happy Canada Day!

[Nyles]

Thanks! Spent it on crown land with some army buddies and several firearms.