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6th September 2008, 11:09 PM
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I reckon my tastes favour specimens prior to center fire ... more to the muzzle loading version ... percussion or, if available and affordable, flint. It's already quite fine that this new Forum was born ( or reborn) and things are not so bad this way. While the main ethnographic Forum now covers also firearms, we have in this one European firearms, which implicitely cover edged and also firearms. It just about does it. We just have to hope there are members interested in feeding this section; even if just a fraction of the quorum that assists the main discussion one ... well, a decent fraction  Fernando |
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6th September 2008, 11:29 PM
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personally i prefer firearms from 1900 on.
springfield 1903 in 30.06 m1 garand mosin nagant 7.52 mm m-14 modern automatic weapons (fun to fire) (G-3/G-36, SIG 550, AK5, MP5, ect) |
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6th September 2008, 11:45 PM
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The days i enjoyed firing modern weapons are gone; Military service and guerrila warfare was just about enough for me. I actually try to forget it now.
I guess that what motivates me to collect is a cocktail of abstract fantasy from youth ( the only then available American culture influence, westerns and so ), curiosity for mechanisms and the charm of antiquity. No pleasure in shooting any more. I take it that this Forum is for antique stuff, rather than active specimens; for the late i'm not to be counted in. Fernando Last edited by fernando; 7th September 2008 at 12:31 AM. Reason: word addition |
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7th September 2008, 12:12 AM
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I have an eclectic firearms collection including a 1/3 model of one of Nelson's 24 pdrs, a copy of the Loshult Gun two doppelhackens that I will write up at some point, and two wall guns. I also have a variety of post 1900 pistols and rifles. I have a weakness for Lugers. I will restrict my posts to the stuff from <1600.
I have a couple of models of Mons Meg and a really long and tedious story about an 1850's photography exhibition that featured a photo of a model of Mons Meg and where that self-same model is today. 
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7th September 2008, 04:40 PM
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7th September 2008, 04:55 PM
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I just mean that I will stick to my early firearms.
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11th September 2008, 05:29 AM
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Fernando, would be it short enough to call it "trabuco naranjero"?
Regards Gonzalo |
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11th September 2008, 06:28 AM
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If you've a fondness for the romanticized American West, you might take a look at the Single Action Shooting Society (http://www.blackjackmcginnis.com/sas...2008/index.htm), founded about twenty years ago by a bunch of rich old gun nuts who were bored with modern arms competitions. The competitions are done in period costume using single-action revolvers, lever action rifles and side-by-side shotguns. Your persona can be anyone real or imaginary from the Old West to Western cinema, so long as someone else hasn't registered it. The big meets might see Wyatt Earp competing against Tom Mix, while Dangerous Dan McGee is facing off against The Loan Arranger. Thery've gone international; I know there's chapters in Australia and Canada, who knows where else by now? BTW, my own handle is Lew Nassad, agent of the Sam Hane Occult Detective Agency.
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11th September 2008, 07:06 PM
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But thanks for the link; it was kind of you. I find the name "Loan Arranger" fantastic, though. Fernando |
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