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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SMIDSY on February 10, 2006, 05:18:19 AM
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need help identifying the large magazine gun on the right.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/spagin_41/kursk_143.jpg
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i'm no expert, but it looks like a standard Lee Enfield .303 infantry rifle C.1940
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It's just a standard 98 Mauser with a modified magazine.
Normal Mausers have a five round internal magazine. This one has been modified to hold more rounds.
It may even be a detachable magazine but I doubt it.
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Mk. 5 Plasma
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This people look like People's Militia (Narodnoe Opolchenie) or partisans. Opolchenie could be armed with almost any weapon, including some stuff left from WWI, even captured enemy weapons. You see, the guy at the right with a strange rifle has a red band on his non-uniform cap, like Red Guards in Civil War.
When my Father was a cadet in 1943-44 they were armed with Arisaka 6.5mm rifles left from WWI shipments. He said this rifles didn't have blue, and to keep them from rust they had to polish and clean them almost all the time.
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It's a mauser with a WWI trench magazine which held 20rds.
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Originally posted by Boroda
This people look like People's Militia (Narodnoe Opolchenie) or partisans. Opolchenie could be armed with almost any weapon, including some stuff left from WWI, even captured enemy weapons. You see, the guy at the right with a strange rifle has a red band on his non-uniform cap, like Red Guards in Civil War.
When my Father was a cadet in 1943-44 they were armed with Arisaka 6.5mm rifles left from WWI shipments. He said this rifles didn't have blue, and to keep them from rust they had to polish and clean them almost all the time.
Boroda, you must write a book my friend!
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Just looks like a mauser with a high capacity magazine added.
lazs
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Looks like hes got a cig but in his hand.
Someone might ought to tell him smoking can kill.
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"it's photoshoped"
:lol JK.
But whats with the chicks in the background?
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Originally posted by JBA
"it's photoshoped"
:lol JK.
But whats with the chicks in the background?
Learn your history...
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Originally posted by Ping
Looks like hes got a cig but in his hand.
Someone might ought to tell him smoking can kill.
cigarette in People's Militia?! LOL! a piece of a newspaper with caporal (makhorka).
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Originally posted by Hawklore
It's a mauser with a WWI trench magazine which held 20rds.
I have found a discussion about this picture at Russian military-historical forum. People didn't come to any conclusion, the magazine looks like it's from Czech ZB-26 machinegun.
(http://t-hiyoko.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kokubou/gun/zb/zb.JPG)
Maybe it's some partizan craftsmanship, they liked to make different things like that. Or - maybe it's a Polish or Czech G98 with their own trench magazine.
As for a book - it's my Father who definetly needs to write memoirs, I am trying to persuade him for many years...
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The short butt, the pistol grip (not straight stock), the straight bolt handle, the odd shaped cocking piece and what looks like a locking lug at the back of the bolt all seem to say FN large ring type mauser. There's a guy behind him with what looks like the same rife in plan bottom view.
Regardless, I have no idea what it really is.. but forced to guess; with that stock, I'd guess polish or latvian capture FN/mauser.
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Looks like BREN Light Machine Gun....
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/allied_ww2.htm
http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/bren.htm
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It's a Mauser GW98 w/a 20 round magazine, Russians apparently did this conversion to captured Mausers often.
(http://www.conjay.com/Mauser%2098K%20002.jpg)
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shows how much i know about guns :D
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Originally posted by Boroda
I have found a discussion about this picture at Russian military-historical forum. People didn't come to any conclusion, the magazine looks like it's from Czech ZB-26 machinegun.
(http://t-hiyoko.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kokubou/gun/zb/zb.JPG)
Maybe it's some partizan craftsmanship, they liked to make different things like that. Or - maybe it's a Polish or Czech G98 with their own trench magazine.
As for a book - it's my Father who definetly needs to write memoirs, I am trying to persuade him for many years...
Does your father speak any english?
I'm very interested in talking with him, share some photos of my reenactment group with him, and have him critque us if he is willing.
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Originally posted by JBA
But whats with the chicks in the background?
Notice the black book in the guy's hand? :D
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Originally posted by Boroda
He said this rifles didn't have blue, and to keep them from rust they had to polish and clean them almost all the time.
Isn't it also true that the Russians mixed gasoline in their gun oil to keep their actions from jamming in the extreme cold? I thought about 10 years ago, I read this.
Karaya