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

[Redlg155]

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. 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!

Good Shooting
Red

 

[Okiecruffler]

I've got 3 and need 2 more

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.

 

[Bainx]

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.