Name that Weapon

[Voriax]

So you don't have a clue? Cheat

I'd say it's from 1850-1860 or thereabouts. Too bad you didn't find a bigger pic.

Voriax

[Jim1954]

Yeah ,I have a clue, but not a bigger picture. I guess you've suffered enough. Here's the text.

Been fun batting these back and forth with you.

[Voriax]

Heh, I just found it..savage indeed.

Here: http://www.ambroseantiques.com/ppistols/savage.htm


Voriax

[Jim1954]

Glad I didn't have to use it when my life depended on it. I'm all thumbs just typing. ha

:rolleyes:

[Bing]

Originally posted by Jim1954
Bing, if anybody could get the nationality right, I figure it would be you. (hint)

Well, I'm Welsh on my father's side and German on mother's. A dangerous combination, no question about that.

As to Boshevikism, no, not around here. I am a history buff with an interest in wargames, or the other way around, it is never clear which. I don't subscribe to anyone's political agenda except the one in which I was born.

While it has its faults, it seems to have worked about as well as any. An easy test is: How many people want to immigrate here. How many people want to go the other way, say to any one of a number of MIdde East nations?

My interest in the Red Army is purely historical - they have been consistently underrated, as have the achievements of their design bureaus. That's all there it to it, really. Thoroughly American to be a "champion of the underdog".

If that isn't what we were talking about, I have missed the point. Nohting new about that, either.

Bing

[Jim1954]

My interest in the Red Army is purely historical

That was my point, you are quite knowledgeable (that looks like too many letters), in that particular area of history.

Hope you didn't think I was calling you a commie.



Jim

[Bing]

Originally posted by Jim1954
That was my point, you are quite knowledgeable (that looks like too many letters), in that particular area of history.

Hope you didn't think I was calling you a commie.



Jim

Oh, no, I didn't think that. Besides, if a person were a Commie today who would care? When I entered Mich State U and ROTC I was required to sign a loyalty oath. I was 18, didn't know better and if it were to happen today they would have a recommendation as to where the "loyalty" oath might be placed. The stupid thing about it, of course, was that if a person were subversive signing a loyalty oath would mean nothing - as good cover as could be expected, more likely.

I'm really more patriotic than I realized, I guess. Events such as WTC have a way of bringing that out.

Bing

[Noodleboy]

Sorry about the picture quality

[Voriax]

My guess is this is some sort of observation vehicle..too bad the pic is so bad, can't tell in the centre part is telescopic. Looks like camera lenses on top..but it's past midnight here and I'm too sleepy to hunt it down...

Voriax

[stevemk1a]

Is it a Bren carrier "Praying Mantis" ? Apparently it was built as a prototype armed with two bren guns on a hydraulic elevator to fire over hedgerows. It was one of the weird British "anti invasion" devices of 1940 ...

[Noodleboy]

Originally posted by willy
Is it a Bren carrier "Praying Mantis" ? Apparently it was built as a prototype armed with two bren guns on a hydraulic elevator to fire over hedgerows. It was one of the weird British "anti invasion" devices of 1940 ...

You got it.

D'oh!

People on this DB know everything!!!