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Thread: Would you donate a No. 4 .303" rifle to the Canadian Rangers?

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    if they need them really bad, ill sell them one at full market value plus shipping.

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    I'd send them some once fired berdan primed brass.......... C.O.D.
    and possibly a photocopied picture of my left ummm cheek.

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    No one has asked for this, nor is there a deal yet, so there's no smell. I'm just asking folks on several gun boards if they would donate No. 4 rifles. If several hundred folks step forward, then there's a potential to put your rifle in a Canadian Scout's hands. It would be good publicity for Cast Boolits, the Canadian Scouts would have the rifles they need, and some anti-gun politicians and some incompetent bureaucrats would have egg on their faces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by backbencher View Post
    No one has asked for this, nor is there a deal yet, so there's no smell. I'm just asking folks on several gun boards if they would donate No. 4 rifles. If several hundred folks step forward, then there's a potential to put your rifle in a Canadian Scout's hands. It would be good publicity for Cast Boolits, the Canadian Scouts would have the rifles they need, and some anti-gun politicians and some incompetent bureaucrats would have egg on their faces.
    Putting egg on Canadian bureaucrats faces is up to the Canadian's, not us, we have enough problems here.

    If you seriously believe this would help the cause here in the U.S. you sir are living in LaLa land.
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    You clearly have too much time on your hands.....

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    backbencher, have you been in contact with any of the rangers??

    This whole deal just doesn't even seem real, I have my doubts that they could, or would take them.

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    Where's the BS ICON at ?

    Mods, If the IP address is out of Okla. then you have Gunkid trolling CB

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    Quote Originally Posted by starmac View Post
    backbencher, have you been in contact with any of the rangers??

    This whole deal just doesn't even seem real, I have my doubts that they could, or would take them.
    I don't know if they would take them. With all of 18 rifles volunteered, it would be pointless to contact them @ this point. I'm just gauging interest. No interest? No problem. Folks want to put 500 rifles into the hands of folks that will carry them in the freezing cold to check on North Warning System facilities? Well, then we have something to talk to the Rangers about.

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    One thing I know for sure is Dem BOYS already have rifles in their hands, or at least everyone that wants them does. What a croc.

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    Not willing to donate any rifle, do you have an address i could send funds to. I have a half dozen canuckian quarters I'll send over to them to help out. They don't work here.
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    In a sick, twisted way I am enjoying this thread.

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    Reading the links, I didn't see anything about them needing anything. My take is the rangers are similar to our national guard and the Jr rangers akin to rotc.

    Nowhere in either WIKI links does it mention they are in need orwant of any type of donations.
    Any of our Canadian members checked this thread, how about your views here.

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    A Canadian member of a motion picture prop forum wrote of how they confiscated a cast metal replica of Han Solo's blaster that he had mail ordered from the U S.
    Sending a shipment of guns to Canada might not be so easy.

    When they finally do get a replacement for the No.4 having a few more serviceable rifles on hand won't stop them from sending all of them to the chopper to prevent their falling into civilian hands.

    Last I heard Canada had bought a lot of POF manufactured No.4 rifles from Pakistan to make up for low stocks of Long Branch and other No.4 rifles on hand.

    A Bolt Action may be the best choice for artic patrol use.
    The FN FAL failed the extreme cold weather tests when the U S Army tested it half a century ago, but they improved the design over the years so it may work fine in cold weather now. Maintenance is probably the main worry. I've read of some real horror stories on condition of some of these No.4 rifles after a few years in the bottom of a canoe or strapped to a sled.

    Denmark uses a clone of the Winchester Model 70 for its arctic patrols. They had used the M1917 rifle and I hear a few of those are still in use at stations.

    They could have contracted with AIA to supply its updated 7.62/.308 version of the No.4. Best of both worlds there. A slightly more effective and more readily available cartridge still in NATO use, and a stronger action with built in optics rail, the whole thing sharing many parts with the No.4 rifles still in service.

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    27 rifles have been volunteered in total, with 2 from Cast Boolits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by backbencher View Post
    27 rifles have been volunteered in total, with 2 from Cast Boolits.
    By Golly, B T Barnaman was right, 27 times so far.
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    47 rifles volunteered, still only 2 from Cast Boolits.

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    I'd be curious to see the other forum's that are donating these rifles - Got some Link's?
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    Some links please.
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    If any of you are feeling a deep seated need to arm strangers for free, PM me and I will shoot you my shipping address.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brtelec View Post
    If any of you are feeling a deep seated need to arm strangers for free, PM me and I will shoot you my shipping address.
    I would be willing to help, too!
    However, to comply with Colorado law, I would also have to provide my FFL's address and license.
    Whenever Gov't needs us to fund its operation, there is a scam somewhere in there.
    Can I just collect all of these? If I can't transfer them easily, then maybe I could just keep them. Wouldn't that be sweet?

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