Rifles Hot or Not - Show us yer kit!

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There were cases of 10,000 going in the January Holts auctions

One of my shooting groups bought one of the 10k lots (they were all Fiocchi), and everyone had 1 or 2k from the batch. Unfortunately, it turned out that about 1% or so split upon firing - so some gas fouling on the bolt. Presumably thats why they were all in the auction in the first place - faulty stock.

Thus the buyer gathered them all back off everyone and sent them back to Holts for a refund.

Later on, we started hearing the bad news from the importers that there were to be no more primers for a year or even longer, and it was already dues-out at most of the suppliers.

Hence our buyer went running back to Holts to ask if we could have all the primers back again! Faulty primers are better than no primers.

 

[Goldbricker]

I dont know if i ever posted this

1949 Manufactured Remington Model 81 Semi Auto rifle (1903 Patent by John M Browning)
Caliber .35 Remington
5 shot Long Recoil operation

 

[Munter Hunter]

I dont know if i ever posted this

1949 Manufactured Remington Model 81 Semi Auto rifle (1903 Patent by John M Browning)
Caliber .35 Remington
5 shot Long Recoil operation

View attachment 672091

That is absolutely awesome!!!
Isn't that what Frank Hamer used on Bonnie & Clyde?

 

[Themanwho]

That is absolutely awesome!!!
Isn't that what Frank Hamer used on Bonnie & Clyde?

Along with everything else in the gun shop IIRC...

 

[wasteofrations2]

I dont know if i ever posted this

1949 Manufactured Remington Model 81 Semi Auto rifle (1903 Patent by John M Browning)
Caliber .35 Remington
5 shot Long Recoil operation

View attachment 672091

Would .35 be about 7mm?

 

[Themanwho]

Would .35 be about 7mm?

NO!
It's just a tad under 9mm (8.89mm) by calculation, sold as 8.9 x 49 mm (also as 9 x 49 mm Browning and 9 mm Don Gonzalo).

Here flanked by .308 Win (7.62 NATO) and .223 (5.56 NATO):

.35 Remington - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

7mm converts to .276" mathematically, in ammunition parlance it was the intermediate cartridge for the EM2 .280" or 7mm NATO:

A Cartridge in Brief: .280 British - Armament Research Services (ARES)

Jack Dutschke During the Second World War, Germany developed a number of innovative small arms. One key development – the Sturmgewehr, chambered for the 7.92 × 33 mm Kurz cartridge – is rightly considered the grandfather of the modern ‘assault rifle’. The concept behind the assault rifle was a...

armamentresearch.com

 

[wasteofrations2]

NO!
It's just a tad under 9mm (8.89mm) by calculation, sold as 8.9 x 49 mm (also as 9 x 49 mm Browning and 9 mm Don Gonzalo).

Here flanked by .308 Win (7.62 NATO) and .223 (5.56 NATO):
View attachment 672130

.35 Remington - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

7mm converts to .276" mathematically, in ammunition parlance it was the intermediate cartridge for the EM2 .280" or 7mm NATO:

A Cartridge in Brief: .280 British - Armament Research Services (ARES)

Jack Dutschke During the Second World War, Germany developed a number of innovative small arms. One key development – the Sturmgewehr, chambered for the 7.92 × 33 mm Kurz cartridge – is rightly considered the grandfather of the modern ‘assault rifle’. The concept behind the assault rifle was a...

armamentresearch.com

No need to shout. Now you have mentioned the EM2 it makes sense.

 

[Goldbricker]

Would .35 be about 7mm?

8.9mm