This one’s not so much a “build” as some of the others because I went ahead and ordered a complete semi auto reciever from TNW. Well after almost a year it finally came in, and after about 2 hours of deburring (ordered it in the white) I took stock of what needed to happen for this project. My...
Exactly, the German economy was failing after the treaty of Versailles, and Mauser was trying to survive. I believe these and most of the stuff they were allowed to make were only sporting types and also only made for export.
The markings on the reciever only say Germany over the serial number
Yeah it is quite the interesting design for the conversion, the removable floating bolt face is interesting as hell, but also makes me not want to fire it
As I was strolling through the local gun show this weekend, checking out some scented candles, deciding on what turquoise jewelry I liked, and shopping through thousands of 2 dollar knives I came across an old man with a table of various wares. He was selling off his “collection” sayin his wife...
Big Stupid is ready for test fire next time I make it to the range. Bench test on everything seems like it should work fine, feeds the strip, pulls rounds chambers and re seats brass, striker system fired a primer, so we should see
I emailed the Midwest metal creations email above a few weeks ago concerning help and info on a Breda 37, he responded fairly quickly so it’s still active, he did say they were running over a year behind on builds
Yes I did a vickers, not a Maxim but I’m sure they are very similar inside. I believe they are a lot alike just the guts are upside down when compared to each other. But like sihr said you’d need new side plate with denial islands on it, probabaly need recoil plate/ recoil arms like rooster...