Recent content by MelvinWalker

Thanks so much gentlemen. great knowledge base here. I think the biggest value from this whole thing is the bullet starter.

That's because Turkish gunmakers build to whatever price-point you have or want to spend. A local Florida dealer that I know has a line of Kalashnikov shotguns built in Turkey for his company. He was invited to, and did tour the plant in Turkey before committing to the deal. He told me that...

Very interesting....That's rare when posters ask questions and two people learn something~! If I look in the barrel on the mentioned action, it looks like some old fouling inside the barrel like it had been fired, but I see no way to get spark to the charge? It looks like .44 caliber or...

There is no flash hole that I see, nor firing pin mechanism...Also the breech block unscrews and the barrel is rifled....Also there were three more barrels with it that do have flash holes that are shown below the one I am asking about...All of this was from one auction lot and had a Indian Wars...

I can't believe no one here has a clue what this thing is? I have done multiple google lens reverse searches, and I get an occasional "picket rifle" reference to the brass bullet starter, but other than that, I don't know.

The best 1911 on the market for the money, hands down.....Anybody that hasn't fired one and says different, is going from feelz about something from Turkey and not the quality of the firearm...This is better fit and finish than Colt at a third of the price.

I don't even own an M1 carbine nor a Mini 14, so it doesn't matter to me specifically in any way. I just remember seeing all manner of youTube videos a few years ago with posters showing a shoestring tied to their belt loop and an AK or AR styled rifle firing from the hip continuously using this...

Exactly what case was that? I have never heard of it, nor can I find it.

Let me fix that for you.... "Never been to LA, never going to LA. Hopefully when these "protests" are finally over, LA will become part of......"

This was purchased by me in another box of firearm "stuff" at an auction. I am almost sure there is a Civil War era m1851 belt in the group and a couple of other what I guess you could call "barreled actions"? I'll post pics of the rest of the stuff tomorrow after work, but this one has me...

It's just you aren't from Texas or you would use it too...I just got back from Clearwater BTW..Picked up some guns I won at auction.

Truth....Look at "M&P"... I guess it worked so well with K frames, that it still works with striker fired pistols and AR variants.

"Casted", no...Obvious wrong tense..."Smelted"? I can live with that, but then my dad had a coin and precious metal shop when I was growing up.

Actually, "Y'all" is almost a taught word in Texas...Much like "y'uns" was a taught word in my 40 years in Tennessee, (short and bastardized word made from "You ones"). I had an acquaintance from East Tennessee that talked so slow, everybody hung on his every word...We had a phrase for him...