Author Topic: Anyone up for a game of phototag?  (Read 177841 times)

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baird4444

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Reply #705 on: June 11, 2015, 05:07:40 am
    Let's keep this moving;
            GO AHEAD AND CALL ONE....
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Reply #706 on: June 11, 2015, 10:52:16 am
    Let's keep this moving;
            GO AHEAD AND CALL ONE....

Yours was the closest - your call, I say...


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Reply #707 on: June 11, 2015, 01:18:37 pm
How about an Enfield and an Enfield ?   rifle/bike
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Reply #708 on: June 12, 2015, 08:05:50 pm
 :)
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Reply #709 on: June 12, 2015, 09:57:12 pm
Dude awesome!  All yours bro, pick the next tag!  :)
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Reply #710 on: June 12, 2015, 11:12:23 pm
I recognize the bike, of course, but the Enfield rifle?  I don't know my firearms very well... what can you tell us about it?


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Reply #711 on: June 12, 2015, 11:33:24 pm
From the photo it looks like a SMLE (Short Magazine Lee-Enfield) No.5 Jungle Carbine. And very rusty!
The better or most famous Enfield rifle is the SMLE No. 1 MkIII, served from WWI all the way until the Korean war (Australian Army) and are still used in Pakistan and India for police use, and some Canadian mounties.

Fun fact, in Melbourne at the shrine of rememberance, the Shrine Guard are actually police officers with loaded Enfield rifles.
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Reply #712 on: June 13, 2015, 12:06:33 am
The stock on the winning entry has been replaced with a hunting style aftermarket style but it is/was a Enfield rifle.

For a bit of contrast I'm attaching a picture of my Royal Enfield G5 with a reproduction of a 1853, Enfield, "3 band" rifled musket sitting on it.

This gun was made in the 1980's by Parker Hale in Birmingham, England, using the original Enfield gauges.  All parts are interchangeable with the original 160 year old guns parts.

The Enfield rifles at that time were .577 caliber muzzleloaders shooting a 550+ grain weight, hollow based bullet.

They were used extensively by the Confederates during the American Civil War. 

The South had very little manufacturing at the time but they did have tons of cotton.  The British were more than happy to supply Enfields in trade for the cotton.

(Of course, getting the guns and cotton past the Union blockade on the Southern ports wasn't easy but tens of thousands of Enfields were delivered.

The Union also bought thousands of Enfields from the British. 
The idea was, if the Union bought them, the South wouldn't get them so, many of them remained unused by the North.
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Reply #713 on: June 13, 2015, 02:46:38 am
Can't tell you much about the Enfield rifle in my picture. Borrowed it from a friend who obviously has'nt taken very good care of it. The alterations to the stock were done by a previous owner. It's in desperate need of some cleaning. Offered to do so, the owner would rather just sell it.
I like Arizoni's picture and story much better. I think he should be the next tagger.
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Reply #714 on: June 13, 2015, 08:00:00 pm
Guess I'm still it.
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Reply #715 on: June 28, 2015, 06:36:49 pm
 :) bump
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Reply #716 on: November 27, 2015, 02:22:44 am
Guess I'm still it.
An R.E. In a really tiny shop space.

Well, over 120 days and no go.  How 'bout in a cramped garage?
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Reply #717 on: February 10, 2016, 02:13:28 am
Over two months and no one can take a picture of their RE in a cramped garage?

With winter here and many of our members walking around in snow ass deep to a tall giraffe,  I'm surprised no one has put their trusty motorcycle into storage and taken a picture of it.

Maybe the depressing sight of it sitting there, all cold and lonely is too much to bare and the owners tears have frozen on the cameras button?
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Reply #718 on: February 10, 2016, 10:12:08 am
Believe me, I've considered it - but for me to call my garage "cramped" would just be complaining...


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Reply #719 on: February 10, 2016, 01:03:20 pm
The garage is cramped enough with the girldfriends car, but the bike isn't fully on form as of yet!

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