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Battle Damage on my M53?
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 10:51 pm
by pdstout
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
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 11:39 pm
by Gunmetal
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.
Also had one with a barrel jacket hit--
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:58 am
by oldiron
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 !!
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:56 pm
by BeltFedTed
Cool....
I gotta K98 with a bullet still wedged in the stock!
Ours or theirs??
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:09 pm
by oldiron
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--
!
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 10:53 pm
by Hessian
OOOPS, Those gold coins are mine I left them with those rifles by mistake... would you kindly mail them to me
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:03 pm
by hakentt
Thats cool
Sure will do tomorrow morning !!
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 12:54 pm
by oldiron
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 --
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:57 am
by MAX-LEADFLO
Thinking about getting a M53 kit, any dates on the gun?
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:53 am
by none123
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?
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:26 pm
by MAX-LEADFLO
I was referring to the gun in the thread for the date, sorry for the confusion.