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brier-49
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brit 303 #4 mk1 local dealer got 10 assorted military firearms in friday,as i was the only customer in the place i got pick of the liter.it shoots very well.bayonet and original sling,all for $150.00
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followed quickly by the Jungle Carbine.
Mine cost me &19.95 - mail order - shipped to my door!
... that was in 1960! ... just a little short of 50
years ago!
Do you know that there are quite a few Common Wealth
countries that still use the old Enfields as front-line
rifles? I was just reading that the Indians and Pakies'
still prefer them in the high mountains because of the
superior ability to function in the extreme environments
of cold, ice, mud and snow. Other places they are still
used because of the extremes of jungle environments - mud
and moisture, etc. Can't say that about many rifles that
have been around for more than a hundred years! [:D]
from a place up in Los Angeles.
Remember, for $50 you could get an NRA 'Good' 1911 .45?
I bought a couple and mine were almost new! I think they
were holstered for a year or so in some office in the
Pentagon or some stateside fort somewhere. Jeesh, I miss
those days!
I could also go to the swapmeet (flea market) here - any
of about 20 in San Diego - and buy as many Lugers in an after-
noon for $50 each! guys who brought them back from WWII were
cleaning out their garages for the first time in those days.
I remember a cardboard box full of Nambu's - some were Baby
Nambu's - that a guy couldn't give away ... nobody wanted
that "Jap junk!"[:D]
Great find!