OK, what’s this then…..anybody?

Is it a dished crown or flat? Merlin?

and just prior to export she had a modified scheme but you can still see the match up to the Decca text that you’ve revealed again on the airframe
Tim

The weather did the revealing 🙂

Nice grouping,At what range did it punch through that 1/4 inch plate.You can understand why it became the snipers choice.

About 100yards, using iron sights. & with my eyesight I can’t focus on the front sight on the guns so it’s all (literally) a bit hit & miss.. Front sight falls into the *blurry* vision range 🙁

Here’s the triplets:

& the quads 🙂

I’ll ask about the spare engine, the hangars in that area are now gone so maybe the engine also went…

I didn’t know there was a Sea Prince at Van Nuys – if so what is its origin? I am aware that Prince N206UP (once Decca’s G-ALWH) has been at VN for many years – is that actually the machine your friend has obtained? I saw it again at VN some years ago but as my pics of it are stored here’s a link to a good illustration
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Percival%20P-50%20Prince%202/0978825/L/&width=1225&height=721&sok=WHERE__(reg_%3D_%27N206UP%27)_&sort=_order_by_photo_id_DESC_&photo_nr=1&prev_id=&next_id=NEXTID

I stand corrected,. no “Sea”.. just Prince then & it doesn’t look ANYTHING like it did in that pic…:eek:

Gone green with envy at that collection mate, is that mosin still hard to get into safety.I fired a few rounds through a 1944 mosin years ago.

No idea, I’ve never used the safety on any of the 4 I own (there’s another 91/30 not in that pic) 🙂

Here’s the vid from Sunday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTAbo0ecjPo

& here’s a piece of 1/4in steel plate I poked holes in with the Mosin, the multitude of light marks are from my kid & her .22 Savage

Does the mosin 44 still have its bayonet in place?

Yup 🙂

When you say “sporterized” do you mean modified if you’ve modded it how.
Great set of weapons you’ve got there.
dave

I didn’t bubba the gun, some previous doofus did that. If you look at the row of rifles the 7th from right with the scope on it is the same gun as the blonde ’55 303 thats 3rd from right..