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Originally Posted by calvin humburg
So the veritical flat in frount of the bolsters is the standing breech. Fences is the name I was looken for. Like your sord saying Francis.
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-- Yup- It came from the speech the late T. Nash Buckingham (My gunning hero) made when he accepted the Olin Sportsman of the Year award in 1966- he was quoting from the Opera about Robin Hood, and those lines are from the "Armorer's Song"--
I was a Armorer in the USMC (MOS 2112)- that does not mean I am a gunsmith- just a qualified parts changer- I go back to the era of the M-1 Garand, the 1903 and the cheaper 1903-A-1, the Ma-Deuce .50 Browning, the great M-14, etc--
Some of those older military weapons are still with us- the Browning 1911-A-1, the .50MG and the Barrett sniper version that all our elite units have for their well-trained snipers- And my CO when I was Stateside at Quantico was a big LC Smith and AH Fox collector, also had a great collection of military rifles from post-1966 to 1939, from all parts of the world- I was lucky, I got to clean and shoot many of them--
The "Top Shot" series and other MTU series on the History Channel often give credit to the unit Armorer's involved in preparation of the weaponry used, and one of my best buddies is a stage Armorer for some of the Hollywood stuff that makes the movie circuits- sometimes they even "get it right"--
