WildBillCody's Gun Of the Week #8

[WildBillCody]

This is a hard one, I doubt anyone will get it.
First one to name the model of gun and the caliber, Wins the prizes.

[drhall762]

I couldn't find the rules so I don't know if I can try this week or not but anyway:

It is the rear take down pin on an AR-18 rifle, 5.56 mm,

OR NOT!

Dave :sniper:

[SteelCore]

What's an AR?

[sorry, old joke.]

I have no idea WTF that one is. it is a tuffy.

[drhall762]

To the Infantry AR was Automatic Rifle, to the clerks, jerks and most officers it meant Army Regulation. I was an Infantryman.

Just bustin'.

Dave :sniper:

[k98k792]

What's an AR?

[sorry, old joke.]

I have no idea WTF that one is. it is a tuffy.





That was a running joke we used to have on the old CETME forum.
Another was "What's a Mini 14?"
Comedy all the time.:sleep:

[-COK-]

its weird how much i enjoy this running contest concidering
i havent had so much as a clue what even the "easiest" one was. LOL

maybe its because im learning something. been a few ive never seen
nor heard of before when they were shown.

WildBillCody, i think you would be a good teacher.
you make learning fun.

well done.

[WildBillCody]

Dave, Everyweek starts over, so you can play as much as you like, BTW I mailed you prize today, sorry it took so long, We trying to find a house, and that has been taking up all of my spare time.

Thanks COK,
I've been told that before, as a matter of fact I'm going to be an instructor at the Aircraft Maintenance School.

[pigpen]

Looks to me like the very front end of the mauser handguard, right behind the bayonet lug.

[pigpen]

OOps, I forgot to add caliber. 8mm. I'm not sure what modle of mauser.

[drhall762]

WBCody,

As I said before, didn't even know there were prizes. Don't read to closely sometimes. Take care of the house stuff, its important.

Dave :sniper:

[okie shooter]

GEW M1888 in 7.9x57 I or also know as 7.92 x 57 mm J

[WildBillCody]

Nope, not a mauser of any kind.

[Schultz]

We trying to find a house, and that has been taking up all of my spare time.


Good luck on the house hunting! We finally found one in SC and when we got back to fla we had a contract on our place.....Lucky timing, Got to be out of here in three weeks.

[omerta123]

most def way off but what the heck tec-9 9mm?

[WildBillCody]

Ok, Time for a hint, Rifle made between 1900-1945

[pigpen]

Yea, that really narrows it down.

[Perro]

i know that cocking knob, and i cant quite place it

[WildBillCody]

Not a cocking knob, wrong end of the gun.

[wonderwolf]

Front barrel band on a 1917 Enfeild 303 or 30/06?




:sterb029:

[WildBillCody]

Close VERY close...

[wonderwolf]

Ok...its either a 03A3 barrel band OR....A barrel band on one of the .22 trainers for a us Bolt action :poke: .

[okie shooter]

1903 springfield, in .30-03

[WildBillCody]

You're both getting colder.

[MID]

m1917 bolt action rifle 30-06
aka us enfeild.

[WildBillCody]

Very Hot...

[weasel_master]

Enfield 2A in .308?

[okie shooter]

.276-inch Enfield Magazine Rifle or Pattern 1913 in .276

[MID]

p14 in .303

British Enfield .303 caliber P14 rifle, made in USA by Winchester;

[WildBillCody]

.276-inch Enfield Magazine Rifle or Pattern 1913 in .276

Winner!!!
Pattern 1913 in .276, what later became the P-14 in .303 and the M1917 in .30-06, great job.

[Perro]

looked like a cocking knob on a tube gun to me - ahhh well

[pigpen]

I knew it was the barrel band on some kinda gun!

[LostInTexas]

Do you guys just guess, or do you really have a clue?!?!?

I can't even get close, but love watching some of the things everyone comes up with!

[okie shooter]

Do you guys just guess, or do you really have a clue?!?!?

I can't even get close, but love watching some of the things everyone comes up with!
I don't just guess, but you have to think alot about firearms history to figgure out some of these. This one if you read my posts about what I was thinking it was, comes from looking at alot of historic firearms photos. The front barrel band wasn't my first thought, I orginally though it might be a smg cocking lever and ejection port(round section, and what looked to be an ejection port along the top) along the idea of a Austen or Stirling(and the British and Australians and Dominion countries made a lot of these) or something like that, then drifted towards a Hungarian variant smg but that one wasnt right either. Then the barrel band made sence(after it was posted by some one else) thus started looking at historic mausers, since it didn't look like standard enfield bands and was given the orginal hint("This is a hard one, I doubt anyone will get it.") I tried an obscure german commision rifle, the m1888. When the enfield p-14 was hot, but not right(but pushing to the 1903 springfield and 1906 both wrong and colder) then I got it in my head the devlopement of the rifle series(twice the english tried this, both in this rifle and the L1A1 and others after the WWII), and the history says the British were working on the 7mm rifle before WW I but the war stoped that and pushed the rifle from 7mm to .303.

You guys with high speed should have a great advantage in this one. I looked up the photos and information on a Dial up Internet connection BTW.

[Woodman in MO]

Not a Mauser? I thought any rifle made after 1898 was a Mauser or a Mauser copy

Just ask any Mauser guy:poke:


Good one by the way...

[wonderwolf]

Books....lots and lots of books but non with close ups of barrel bands. I knew it was a Barrel band I just couldn't pin point it