A pair of M44's Why? Ohh..and No M1917

Well..stopped by the local gunshop today to put some more down on a M1917 and got the chance to examine it again to see if the previous weeks cleaning had had a chance to work on the bore. No real improvement except for finding numerous circular scratches along the entire length of the bore that I hadn't noticed before. After a bit of questioning I found out that a gunshop "guru"...aka, salesman, has a fondness for spinning a brass or stainless steel brush on the end of a drill bit to clean corroded bores. It didn't take too much to put two and two together, so I decided to cancel the M1917 purchase.

After a bit of browsing I did find an unissued M44 with a terrible looking stock, so I decided to get it to console myself about the loss of the M1917. At $100 even out the door it wasn't the deal of the century, but it was a decent deal. Went home and found out the the stock cleaned up beautifully with just some steel wool. :D Oh...and it still had thick cosmoline in the bore, so I know the mad spinner hasn't been at it.

SO now I'm sitting here wondering why I now have two M44's in the safe. Either way I'm keeping them both! :D

Good Shooting
Red

I've got a Russian, and Hungarian, and a Romanian. I still need a Polish and a Russian with a laminated stock. And maybe one for my scout rifle project. And then there are the different arsenals, and that Chinese copy. And I've seen a couple that were supposedly Vietnam bring backs, one of those might fit in if I stacked everything just right, I wonder how much a small storage building runs these days...

You just gotta love these things.

You got it Okie!
Large calibre, loud bang, big muzzle flash, huge kick, reasonable accuracy. Everything you could want in a rifle! It really is hard to settle on just one for your collection.:D