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It's beyond absurd, absurd is not knowing it is well documented "over a century of armed combat through multiple wars, including house clearing operations" that high level noise exposure has resulted in veterans having permanent hearing loss. Somewhat understandable is not knowing recent studies...

Any movie with a Webley Mk VI or C-96 is "gun perfect" even if the usage and historicity is absurd. No other pistols or revolvers have as much brutal combat charisma, although the P-08 is a close runner-up. I have seen all the movies mentioned in the thread several times. Quite a difference...

Iwo Jima did not and does not have a jungle in which to have a "jungle fire-fight".

Thank you for your excellent reply! You have saved me much time and probably the cost of a couple books in a search for answers.

I think you may be right, but maybe not completely right. I just started looking into this and only have the one previously mentioned source in my procession. Searching for additional information online I have come across this topic. I will keep looking. So far this is what I’ve come up with...

What is your source supporting your statements? Where have you seen drawings or text about the specifications? Where have you seen in print that Ford re-drew the drawings. Are you just assuming Ford would have to create new drawings rather than consistently building to specification? Please...

Yup, only after attending National Match School at Rock Island did the Army let me play with parts that were not drop-in.

Yup, me too. One size fits all link for the standard sloppy 1911.

I think this may be erroneous based upon my source information, Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of WWII by Graham White. Rolls-Royce was not up to the challenge of meeting WWII production demands. "To meet this challenge, Ford Motor Company in England was approached to build Merlins under...

The Gallager is a single shot that loads from the rear of the chamber. As mentioned in post #46 the cartridge loads into the front of the chamber of a repeater. You are getting closer in that you are in the right century and it is a black powder cartridge for a rifled, shoulder fired, lever...

Yup, way off base. It was "a drawing", a very small drawing, in a famous reference book on small arms that brought it to my attention. It definitely is a centerfire cartridge that is loaded into the front of a chamber of a repeating rifle.

Perhaps some of the less recent THR members remember this from a previous post, please don't spoil it for the newbies. I have never met anyone else who knew what it is, let alone owned one. A THR search may find its identity.

Anderson Wheeler Mark VII

If you read about the Wright Brothers, the first pilots of an aircraft capable of sustained controllable powered flight, you will discover that they were obsessive in learning all they could from those who came before them that attempted flight. They were not foolish enough to think they could...