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"Untouched" Martini-Henrys.
35 Whelen
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Curious to hear from anyone here that picked one up from I.M.A., and if you ever got one back into use. I can remember when they were cheap a few years ago, and it seemed like it would've been a great project to clean one up, and get back into firing condition.
http://www.*/2012/01/31/the-martini-henry-rifle-and-the-greatest-discovery-of-antique-firearms-ever/
http://www.*/2012/01/31/the-martini-henry-rifle-and-the-greatest-discovery-of-antique-firearms-ever/
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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One of the ugliest guns I have ever seen. I always thought they were fugly, but this just reminded me. I have an older friend that loves them and collects them. This is why we have chocolate and vanilla. [^] Funny though, I use to hate Henry's just as much, and now I want one bad. Same thing with the Ruger number 1.
One of my bigger regrets of 2015 was not jumping all over a No. 1 a local shop had. Stainless, grey laminated furniture, .458 Lott, and $750 OTD.[B)]
Make sure you check the stocks for active termites.
Atlanta Cutlery couldn't sell enough and IMA bought them.
I guess it is a good thing that the Afghans did not end up with that armament.
I had the opportunity to sit and talk with Christian Cranmer for about two hours at the Vegas Shot Show shortly after he brought the first container loads out from the Nepal Arsenal. He showed me his personal photo album of pics he took before they started to dig through the stacks of rifles.
Those Martini rifles were stacked like cordwood 6ft high, in rows 40ft long. When he arrived at the arsenal, the Nepalese soldiers were in the process of melting down Napoleonic cannons for the bronze scrap, using the original wood carriages for the firewood!
There were piles of Springfield muskets, MP-44's and 38's, Broom Handle Mausers, and even the original tooling Christian Sharps used to make his first rifles. HTH did that end up in Nepal?
All this was being stored in open buildings that we at best, would describe as barns. Google his name and videos, they walked through the piles with a video camera. Go full screen and keep a finger on the pause button, then look closely in the background shadows. You'll be amazed at what they had collected there...and it was all going to be scrapped!
Too old to live...too young to die...