Nice and getting pretty rare, and btw Star wars also used converted Sterling smgs and Lewis Mgs
Nice and getting pretty rare, and btw Star wars also used converted Sterling smgs and Lewis Mgs
And I remember the scene. I believe when they are leaving with Han for the first time, a storm trooper runs in with a freaky looking Lewis gun.. Never thought anything about that until you mentioned it Dave. Usually id be booing like crazy for tearing these guns up. But star wars gets a pass!
Some more Grenade launchers for the S.M.L.E. & No.4
Nice looking rifle.
John
I specialize in M1 carbines and Lugers.
And another one.
My 1906 SMLE Mk1*** was an EY gun before it was relegated to DP. So it might have been used as a grenade launcher at some time.
Mine was an Ishapore as well. Will have to try it with tennis balls. In all my years of attending gun shows mine was the only one I have seen for sale.
There aren't too many around from my experience. The one I bought was the first one I've ever seen in person.
bumping my old thread in an effort to identify the rounds used to fire these mills grenades. It is my understanding there were many different rounds. Somebody own some of these rounds for a visual id?
I first learned to shoot with a No4 as a 13yr old Army Cadetby UK Cousin
and we always just knew these rounds as "Ballistite cartridges" and were taught that they were in someway different to standard blanks. We were never told how they differed and I don't recall ever actually seeing them.
However, this link may help;
https://sites.google.com/site/britmi...-rifle-grenade
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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