Your favorite big game rounds...name them!
Name these ones!DD*********Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill everytime
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Yotes, E-mailed the pic this morning,hope it got there.It came from my work computer so the return address will look strange.If jkohot is in there,that's me. Went to a gunshow in Boise Idaho last year...
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The other 20mm is a 20x139 for Giat Industries 20mm Model F2 (Type M693) cannon used as a coaxial in a French AMX-30 MBT.DD*********Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill everytime
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Nevada,We just had a system wide "denial of service" attack on our newly aquired DSL service... so I am now back on the old dial up... Grrrr... I did get your photo up and was literally in the process...
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Yotes, Only sent one pic,the rest you couldn't make out so I deleted them.I'll try again tomorrow.Know what you mean about dial-ups.That's what we've got here in No. Nevada.What a pain! Didn't have a...
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Nevada are the headstamps on the Hotchkiss stamped or inked? Miner has no markings.DD*********Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill everytime
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Thank you Yotes for the picture editing. Looks better than the original.Also reread my last post and I sound like I've been in the joy juice.Dang! going to have to start proof reading these a little...
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DD, They are stamped.The empty has the original lot # over stamped and the primer is dated 1940.I also have a longer 37mm,same head size as the Hotchkiss,steel case with inked HS that states"37mm Mark...
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I've 2 complete rounds of 37mm Hotchkiss and one fired case.The first 2 are German, with screw-in primers, and the case is French, with normal primer. This string got me curious about them, and last...
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We aren't off topic here....British rounds. Darden, Hotchkiss and just to make sure...... Anybody know where I can get some cast bullets for the Hotchkiss!!DD*********Age and treachery will triumph...
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DD, If somebody on this forum came up with a Hotchkiss gun of any sort, I'd bet my left tonsil that Coyote could come up with a mould. Nevada
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Gawd!!! would that be fun... add that to your Naval Howitzer, Doug... Ah, pining for Montana once again... I'll begin working on it right now... "The attacker must vanquish, the defender, has but to...
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Funny you should mention...Been doing some horse trading with a fellow, "have I any use for pieces of 25 mm or 30 mm bbl?" he asksAntique Ordnance Publishers has plans for a Whitworth rifle...No not...
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Doug, Oh, now this is really interesting ... Now the Snider has a groove diameter of .590" with a case length of just under 2 inches and an overall cartridge length of just under two and a half...
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At some point in there we fall into the catagory the fine folks at ATF take a dim view of...destructive device...it's the fixed ammunition they don't like...As soon as the plans get here and I do some...
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You gents really interest me.I may be wrong but if the design pre dates 1898 ,I don't think there would be a problem with ATF. Dangerous Dave would be the one to know.I've seen him advertise 37 mm...
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Doug, I would think the boys at BATF would have bigger fish to fry than a be-ponytailed old fart with a converted muzzle loading field piece with a Snider breech circa 1866 with a 1 3/16ths inch bore...
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Let's lay this out...1. Ol'fart with pony tail2. Off the beaten path in Colorado3. fixed ammuntion loading cannon greater the .50 inch caliber.4. Rookie ATF Agent who wants to be a FBI agent sitting...
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There is only going to be one piece of barrel, maybe 25mm maybe 30mm...I will have to do some trading for that...Coyote check you email, I need Rollingblock parts.
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Doug, Well, since you describe it that way ... I better make sure Amber's there ... I'll have that young Justice Department whipper-snapper a pullin' the cord on a couple of them rounds before the...
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updated"The attacker must vanquish, the defender, has but to prevail." --Coyot
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