Big Bore Weekend

[jonahpach]

Hello guys spent last saturday shooting off some Bigbore (sic) guns at a friends so called ranch. The 'gaggle' of guns included :

(name them)


Handguns






Wot a bore!

[Pran]

Is the first handgun a Walther?

Pran

[HSharief]

Is the first handgun a Walther?

Pran

Looks like a BHP. The levers both look like 92s or clones.

[Risala]

Nice collection there,Jonah.

Which ones belong to you.

The pistol looks like a FN Browning 9mm.The one below perhaps a Ruger 38 Spl.

Sanjay

[Sakobav]

Jonah

Nice collection what is the second rifle from the top?

Cheers

[Grumpy]

There are some very small calibre `big` bore rifles shown.
The second rifle down is a Lee Enfield - a sporterised rifle. The magazine is rather like the 7.62 version. Something very strange has been done to its top wood.....and a lump of metal added.

[cottage cheese]

The first pistol is the infamous IOF Pistol1A 9mm.

The second is a Ruger Service Six chambered for .380Webley- Police issue

Probably a cop or military friend, Jonah?

That second rifle looks like an MAP modified 7.62mm SMLE...is it?

Whats that tandem triggered rifle below? Looks very Austrian.

Also what bore are the lever actions?

[cottage cheese]

There are some very small calibre `big` bore rifles shown.
The second rifle down is a Lee Enfield - a sporterised rifle. The magazine is rather like the 7.62 version. Something very strange has been done to its top wood.....and a lump of metal added.

Hi Grumps,

You're right about the Lee Enfield- In this case its the IOFB RFI 7.62mm rifle. The lump of metal is the rear sight ears (Tangent sights of the No3Mk1 rifle was retained for the RFI 7.62s).

"Sporterizing" seems to be a pretty happy practice with the cops this side until the SLRs started coming through. They had the stocks halved to resemble the No4 Jungle carbine- Exclusively to 'special task' companies. In this case the top wood seems to have been made to resemble that of the SKS.....
Most often turned out to be a clumsy job. Turns out the full stocked ones were better left as they were.

[dev]

The levers seem like winchester.
Is the double trigger a mauser with set triggers.
Looks like you don't treasure your hearing

Dev

[Grumpy]

Yes CC - a bolt action SKS with a very long barrel ! LOL
Jonah, Dev makes a very good point - you really are risking your hearing. I`ve always used hearing protection ( except maybe sometimes when shooting .22 lr pistol......and ( very ) occasionally when using a shotgun ) yet still have a marked hearing loss.

[cottage cheese]

And of course the rest are:

Brno Mod2 - Above
Brno Mod1 - Middle

The lever actions look like variations of the Winchester Model 1894

Thanks for sharing the event, btw...

[jonahpach]

This entire post is edited until further notice.Sorry for the inconvenience folks.

[cottage cheese]

Scary thought Grumps! Those pointed cartridges could cause a catastrophic detonation in a tubular magazine during heavy recoil....

Jonah... I assume you hand feed them singly?

By the way, which does the busted cap belong to?

[jonahpach]

Yup! CC & Grumpy if u look carefully the feeding ramp door of the 30-30 has also been removed! The blown off cartridge is the 44-40 (old cartridges I believe)

Jonah

[Grumpy]

Yes, exactly CC - you`re on the same wavelength as I am. Holding a fore-end stuffed with cartridges that are liable to ignite on recoil is a recipe for brown trousers ........ and a hand blown off !
Tube magazine lever actions were developed in the 1860s and in the 140 + years since no-one has been able to use pointed bullets until Hornady introduced the polymer tipped LEVERevolution a couple of years ago. To prevent any risk of accident all tube magazine lever actioned rifles were/are chambered for dedicated calibres all of which have round nose bullets.
Thw Browning BLR gets around the problem by having a box magazine - as did the Winchester 1895.