Jesus!!!!!! about £300-£400 for a deactivated .30 around here ZX!

Mind even has the bayonet 🙂 which may not be exactly legal if fitted, thats why it’s usually stuck in the garage wall as a coat hook 🙂

zrx61 THIRTY .30s for $380!!!!!!!!!!

Ya misread it, 10 to a crate, $38 each. You can buy em in pretty much any gun shop for about $100 each so there’s quite a mark up on em.
M1 Garands & Russian Nagants are about the same price. There’s also quite a few Mausers from Turkey floating about with the Nazi emblem on em. They usually rechamber them to 9 or 10mm.
I’ll pick up a copy of Shotgun News next time I’m in town & see whats available currently.

UK old spec M2’s? Perhaps. New spec (welded solid) less likely, and uneconomic. With access to said machine shop it would be easier to manufacture a weapon from scratch.

In the US they deactivate them by taking a gas axe to one side of the receiver & cutting a hole in it about 3 or 4 inches long. It’s a simple matter of drilling out the rivets, removing the damaged plate, machining up a new plate & rivet it in place. Managed to find a scrap yard back East that had a big pile of them to rummage thru for parts.
The ones I was involved with even had all the engraving on them.
Not exactly cheap to play with either, $2/round & 600 rounds per minute gets kinda expensive. 😮 Altho the reaction at the shooting range when everyone else is playing about with *normal* guns & some daft ****** opens up with a .50cal Ma Duece is kinda satisfying…. even more so when ya “test” 3 of em at the same time & lay waste to the targets with AP :diablo: (not allowed back there again for some reason)
I let the ex wife fire one of em, not one of my smartest moves… Her comment afterwards was “It jumps about a bit more than the Enfield” :rolleyes:

The govenment is pathetic how can a real but de-activated 303 be a danger to the public, have you ever seen CCTV footage of somebody holding up a bank with one.
The robber would struggle to lift off the ground if he tryed to fire it…

I think you mean M2’s, they weigh 85lb, & thats the *lightweight* version. My .303 isn’t very heavy & the only downsides to owning one is the cost of the ammo compared to 30.06 etc & the damage done to the shoulder after putting a pile of ammo thru it, I’m usually done for the day after 50-60 rounds.
The guns themselves are cheap tho, $380 for a crate of 10 last time I bought some.

ZRX61 – East of Exeter – might that have been Dunkeswell or neighbouring Smeatharpe?

I only went on the hunt out there twice, I don’t recall seeing a runway as such, but then again if it was RAF I would have been in the tech site part anyway. The place looked like it had been abandoned in the ’60’s, but from what we found I don’t the term “abandoned” would be correct…I think it was within about 10 miles of the town..

around edwards in california for some interesting ones.

You can see my house & I can date it by what cars are in my driveway 🙂

Looks more like stills from a flight sim than anything I’ve seen so far of google earth.. Was the satelite parked on the hill just South of Duxford??

we converted water into avgas….

“Out of the door, line on the left, one cross each” 😀