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It is interesting for a No1 Mk III not to have the bayonet lugs, the serial number is usually stamped on the front round one, so that enemies of the British Empire can read them when looking down the...

At a guess, from your description, it would confirm your suspicion that you may not have been using nearly enough wind. If conditions take you off the target, then on a 6’x10’, if you missed the...

Johnny Bravo,
Was you shooting at 6X6, 6X8 or 6X10 targets?

The strips in the picture of the range trash are from the section circled in this shot. The rectangles are from segments of the wraps themselves. In this rifle it seems that one groove and one land...

Here are the remains of patches that weren’t twisted tails. Just formed over the base pretty much as in 405’s picture. This barrel has 4 grooves of nearly equal width to the lands. Various stuff...

Pretty average chamber cast. It used all my cerrosafe, every drop! I put the “throat” diameter on the pic, it is 0.471” at that point. There is about 11/2 thou. taper in that section. When loaded...

Here is pic of the patch. The top and the bottom are parallel. But each end is at a slight angle to the other so as to allow for the taper of the bullet. The top and bottom edges should really be...

Pictures were in the preview, just never made it to the internet...
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Details: 1886 Spandau (the most common kind), 8 shot 11.15 x 60R (.43 Mauser) 1:21 or 1:22” twist. The bluing under the woodwork, almost perfect! Hard to believe for a rifle 123 years old. The...

Previously up loaded into the ether, the missing target pic!

As the owner of 1886 Mauser 71/84 in pretty decent condition, it was just begging me to be taken to the range, Shoot me!, Shoot me!, it said!!
For shootin’, we need ammo, so this is what I did. ...

This question is posed for Catboat, Brown Wrapping Paper, as used for covering books, parcels etc. Is available in .002" thickness, how suitable is it for patching? It seems relatively free of...