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I shot it while I was home last time and it shot great. The bore ended up being really nice and clean and overall this thing cleaned up awesome. As an added plus the original oiler and cleaning kit was in the buttstock too. It is still chambered in .303 and I was shootin some 1941 winchester surplus ammo out if it. It felt good to let this thing stretch it's legs a little for the first time in about 70 yrs.

WOW, really? ROFLMAO! Where's the prep center?

+1 man. That is why i love this community, all because of selfless people like you.

NUMBER ONE---- Use what the shooter is proficient in and use a known reliable weapon. Use a weapon that no matter what you know it is going to work every time. Use a weapon you are familiar with and shoot all the time. This should be your GO TO GUN. Dont grab a gun because it is cool on tv or in video games. Use one that you use and shoot all the time and if something goes wrong you know how to correct it. It comes down to having faith in your equipment and maintaining your equipment. I know my 1911's will go bang every time I need them to, or my shotgun will always work for me. I want it to be so that any gun I have I can trust my life on, if I cant trust it.... it's not for me. There is a reason I don't keep plastic in the safe.

the lee trimmer actually goes pretty darn quick especially when you put the shell holder in a drill or electric screw driver.

Tim just grind the little tip that goes through the flash hole a tiny bit at a time until you get to the spec you want. Easy fix and works good.

I for one can say that I have many family members and friends that are Troopers and they are the scariest drivers out there. I am good friends with over 15 of them. They forget that they are in their normal car and not the "unit." (the best term of all time ) Many cops that I know really dont give a damn about traffic laws when they are off duty. and KPD- YOU GOT A MAJOR +1 MAN... We need more cops like you!!!!

For large volumes such as when I am getting ready to load up some M2 for the Garand I love my little cheep Lee trimmer setup. It is completely idiot proof, and gives very consistent lengths. Just throw the lee trimmer in a drill recline back in your chair and listen to the radio.. Zip... done, Zip.... done, Zip done. And when the whole lee setup costs less than $10 you cant go wrong. Now if I am only doing a couple of cases I will just use my Forster, but for large quantities you cant go wrong with the lee. They may be extremely cheep but they do the job well and I like em.

I agree with devsadvocate. It is just a waste of taxpayer money for the normal beat cop to have a rifle in the car. Maybe every third officer have one but not every one. The logistics cost alone of supplying ammo for qualification must be astronomical.

the only rifles that they fully decosmo that I know of is the correct and special grades. Service and FG are just a quick wipe down and put on the shelf

I cant wait for tomorrow to clean this thing up and maybe go to the range with it. For being almost 100yrs old this thing looks awesome! I am dying to see what the bore looks like

ah, got ya caine.... Thanks. I was searching for Usterr not Osterr.... SWEET!

I traded a Yugo mauser for this one today and it has me stumped...... Really Stumped. A British Enfield with a German stamp on it. Anyone have a clue on this one? Please excuse the pics, I am the worlds worst photographer and I haven't even attempted to wipe the grease off of it yet. There isn't a speck of rust on it, just a ton of dried grease that smells like poo..... (and it aint cosmo)

yup and they are still there so I keep using them

next step the night of long knives

I would love to see NJ gun laws changed. I am not a member of NJ2AS because I cant make any of the meetings. In the middle of the week in Toms River is a definite no cant go for me. Maybe if the meetings were at least in the middle of the state you would get a lot more members. Also I dont like the secrecy. When you ask what NJ2AS is doing on other fronts other than CCW you get responses like "There is other stuff in the works, we just cant talk about it." Maybe if they were more open about what they were fighting for, maybe I'll join. Right now I am not looking for some place where I need a "secret handshake"

forgot to add with the lemishine way you need to deprime first so that way the lemishine can soak in the primer pockets.

Dan parking is an absolute joke to do. I did all the work and he was teaching. We stripped down the gun and bead blasted all the parts that were going to get parked. Put your park solution into a stainless pan and heat to 150º. once at 150º, put your parts in and let it sit for about 15 minutes. You can see it start parking almost instantly though. Take the parts out of the park pan and douche them with a light oil(i think it was LPS 2) and re assemble. 90% of doing it was the bead blasting.

A while back I bought a shooter 1942 US ARMY 1911 for a good price. Well at some time in it's life it was blued and it was supposed to be parked. Well it drove me nuts that it didn't look original and the bluing was nice but not the greatest. I went over to a friends place today and parked it the way it is supposed to be. It is still just a shooter but a nice shooter now, and at least I can say I have done parkerizing. I wish i took some nice pics of the gun before, but all I have is before blasting it and it is apart. So here is the "BABY" and you can even see the heat treating on the ends of the slide. SWEET! BEFORE: AFTER:

I have a full blown addiction. Wait till you get into rifle and doing caliber conversions. I am now loading up some 8mm mauser that I converted from 30-06 cases. Its a lot of fun finding what calibers you can make from another caliber. YAY! I like it because when I am off for 3 weeks straight I am always looking for something to do. When I'm bored I head down and load something up

WOW! I SO WANT ONE! My link

One of my secrets. Go to walmart and get some lemishine. Get a plastic coffee can, put some brass in it, and add some lemishine and water. Let it soak over night. dry it and tumble it. Your brass will look like the day it was made and you will never clean a primer pocket again.

I have come to the conclusion that Ted is a reincarnated test firer from the Tula factory in the earlier part of the century. I can hear now in a thick Russian accent " Hey I dont know if this rifle any good...." Ted replies " Fugg it bring it over here" Either that or Ted was actually the test firer and the cosmoline preserved his body. Drug addicts are always on the prowl for their next fix, Ted is on the prowl for his next fix of COSMO. If it has been too long, Ted starts going through cosmo withdrawls

I posted this on another forum for some info and it's kinda funny. Many people are saying it's nothing just part of the heat treat process, but yet my PM box is full of people offering me a ton of money for it LOL. Kinda makes you wonder.......

I will get some pics for you once I get moving around and finish my coffee. I took the entire rifle completely down to parade rest. My bolt tool came in handy, it was so caked with cosmo you could barely move the bolt.... let alone try to fire it. The brass recoil plates are on the forend. The stamping on the stock is: MA LITHGOW SMLE MKIII* HV 1943 the barrel is a 5 groove and dated 1943 I shot the rifle yesterday and was hitting golf balls consistantly at 100 with 1941 Winchester surplus(for some odd reason golf balls were all over my range ), so accuracy is exceptional with this one. It's a dream to shoot.