Ade;
You are no doubt correct about that. You are lucky to have the correct M-38 stock though. They are getting scarce. The last dozen M-38s I looked at had a 44 stock.
Bruce
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Ade;
You are no doubt correct about that. You are lucky to have the correct M-38 stock though. They are getting scarce. The last dozen M-38s I looked at had a 44 stock.
Bruce
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Adrian;
I see that you M-38 carbine has a "slab" trigger. It is my understanding that that was not an original item on any prewar weapon. The slab trigger group was a war time exigency because...
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Here are pics of my Bolo .30 Mauser Broomhandle.
This is exactly the configuration I have carried at living history events.
Bruce
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I do quite a bit of reloading. I also manufacture, or more accurately re-manufacture brass into a different cartridge case. One that I make is to take 5.56mm/.223 Rem brass, and re-manufacture it...
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My comment was actually more aimed at others than you. Not everyone is aware, and I wouldn't want to see someone get nailed for ignorance.
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Just remember, that in the U.S., if you have the detachable wooden stock, and ever put it on the weapon, it automatically (in the minds of the ATF) becomes a short barreled rifle, and so requires a...
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Now that I have no doubt of. battlefield pickups were common in every Army. Whether you got to keep it, and take it home was another matter. I have seen Red Army infantry in Berlin with Lugers,...
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It is my understanding that the Broomhandles used by the Soviets were chambered in .30 Mauser, which is almost identical to 7.62 x 25 Tokarev, and the two rounds are interchangeable in firearms. I...
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Nice links!
Boridin
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Is that the AVT-36 you are behind?
Boridin
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Gorgeous PPD-40. I wish I had one!
Boridin
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YOU BET! God Bless America.
I would LOVE to fire that AVS-36.
I have never actually seen one, only pictures, and read about them.
That is amazing that you have one in the free world!
...
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Are they all live weapons?
Boridin
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Basic, and serviceable, what a concept!
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An AK is a great weapon, for what it was designed to do. I have both an AKM, and an AKM-74, and like them both, but I think I prefer the 74.
Boridin
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Boy everything one needs to build his very own PPd in his garage.
Except the machines, and dimensions, but the dimensions you can figure out!
Boridin
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WOW!
That is great!!
Now I just wish I could read Russian.
Oh well.
Boridin
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I do know that while the PPd-40 looks like it takes the same mag as the PPSh-41, it is not exactly the same. For one thing, there is a small stack neck, like a pistol magazine that sticks up from...
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Navyman;
No, sorry, I have no original manuals, or documents. Somewhere around here, I have some very basic info that was provided to all the students in the FMIB Soviet Bloc weapons class, while...
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It was a predecessor to the PPSh-41. One of several efforts during the post Tsarist years to get a workable subgun for the Red Army. IIRC, it was originally chambered for some obscure cartridge,...
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Adrian;
Beautiful pictures of your children!
Boridin
