Battle Damage on my M53?

pdstout · Post by **pdstout** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:51 pm

Guys, I was going through a frw of my M53 kits today. I found a kit with a bullet hole in the barrel jacket. I like it, it gives it a story. I think I will build it in to a Post sample.
P. Stout 07FFL/SOT

Gunmetal · Post by **Gunmetal** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:39 pm

I have one with a bullet hole through the foot of the right side bypod foot, very cool I don't plan on fixing it.

oldiron · Post by **oldiron** » Sun May 14, 2006 11:58 am

Mine was hit on the left side of the jacket where the round hole is up by the flash hider I did not even notice the bullet hit for a couple months-- Would post a picture but I sold the parts with a front end cut off from Brp so that you really didn't need to fix it at all-- It was actually hard to notice !!

BeltFedTed · Post by **BeltFedTed** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:56 pm

Cool....
I gotta K98 with a bullet still wedged in the stock!

oldiron · Post by **oldiron** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:09 pm

Would be interesting to see what caliber bullet was stuck into you stock-- When the Chinese re-import rusty 1903 springfields came into the US in the 1980's I found signal flags; Japanese flags and silk dresses torn up as cleaning rags; and after I burned the moldy rotten wood two chinese gold coins and a few bullets appeared magically out of the ashes. The bullets had to have been imbedded in the wood; and the gold coins were probably hidden contraband from some long forgotten soldier in WWII--

Post by **Hessian** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:53 pm

OOOPS, Those gold coins are mine I left them with those rifles by mistake... would you kindly mail them to me

Post by **hakentt** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:03 pm

Thats cool

oldiron · Post by **oldiron** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:54 pm

Send me your address and tomorrow I will send you the gold coins !! I have a personal Air mail assistant her name is Emelia Earhardt or something like that -- she is out there working on her lockheed Electra with some guy named Fred --

MAX-LEADFLO · Post by **MAX-LEADFLO** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:57 am

Thinking about getting a M53 kit, any dates on the gun?

none123 · Post by **none123** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:53 am

MAX-LEADFLO wrote:Thinking about getting a M53 kit, any dates on the gun?

not if you buy the current crop of kits.....you dont get the entire rear of the gun.

why do you care about a date on a m53. a mg42 I can understand but a 53?

MAX-LEADFLO · Post by **MAX-LEADFLO** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:26 pm

I was referring to the gun in the thread for the date, sorry for the confusion.

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Battle Damage on my M53?

Battle Damage on my M53?

Also had one with a barrel jacket hit--

Ours or theirs??

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Sure will do tomorrow morning !!