Here’s my Last Ditch Type 99 Arisaka.
I traded some stock work for it, from an old friend, years ago. Butch told me that his father had picked it up after a battle, during the Island Hopping campaign, and sent it home with the bayonet. He said that there was a scabbard for the bayonet, but it got lost years ago. This is one of my rifles I will never sale. About two years after we made the trade for the rifle and work, Butch had a lung transplant and his body rejected it. I miss that crusty old fart.
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It may well be. My knowledge of subguns is sorely lacking. It is a prototype...however... I am pretty sure because it has no serial #tark
Is that an Ingram Model 6 submachine gun designed by Gordon Ingram in one of your photos? I seem to recall it was produced after WWII in as an alternative to the Thompson submachine gun and was marketed primarily to law enforcement agencies.
An excellent book indeed. I have read it, and Sam Elliot was superb in the role. (When is Sam Elliot NOT superb?) His men were equipped with Spencers and that was how he held off a force many times larger than his own. We have an "as issued" Spencer in the museum If it ever re-openes I'll get some pics.I'm just rereading my copy of "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, which the Ted Turner produced movie "Gettysburg" was based on.
One of the early chapters, of course, is devoted to Buford's action in holding up the Confederates until the main Union army could get to Gettysburg to hold the high ground. The Pulitzer Prize-winning book is written in novel form, so Shaara shares what Buford must have been thinking. Having been stationed on the Texas frontier fighting the Sioux before the war, Buford had learned the advantages of using cavalry more like mounted infantry as the situation dictated. He also did not hold the saber in high regard as a fighting weapon by this point in history, so he had his men leave them behind. Instead, he made sure his men were equipped with I think were repeating Spencers. This was an important factor in his action before the battle.
In the movie, veteran western actor Sam Elliot played Buford admirably and much of his dialog was right out of the book.
Cheers
Lets see some gun pics.
Nope, you're a pioneer!
When
I thought, ("Well what could we see that already hasn't been posted before.")
And then
.............I laughed.
But you all know what? This has been good therapy!
I enjoy looking at firearms though I do not like every post.
Thanks everyone. Keep them coming!!!
Use care,
B.L.J.