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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum 09-02-2011, 12:49 AM
Replies: 226
Views: 74,406
Posted By Old Steve
Re: zastava m57/ tokarev 7.62x25

Wayne must have joined after bootcamp got to be politically correct
Forum: Large-Bore/Small-Bore Rifle/Shotgun 09-02-2011, 12:43 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,052
Posted By Old Steve
Re: 7MM Mag sighted in at 50 yds.

Quicktarget calculates that you will be 1 inch high at 100 yds, peak 1.05 inch at 130 yds, line of sight at 185 yds. I assumed scope LOS is 1.97 inch above bore, scope height makes quite a bit of...
Forum: Disabled Hunters & Shooters Forum 08-30-2011, 12:53 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 757
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Shooting on hold

Type "acetylcarnosine" into Dogpile and consider what you find. PM me if you care.
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 08-15-2011, 09:59 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 3,200
Posted By Old Steve
Re: WWII facts you might not know

quote: but we recovered a Zero from the tundra just off the runway in the Aleutions. It was put back into flying condition and Chuck Yeager flew it.

I think you would find that Yeager was either...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 07-11-2011, 08:39 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,118
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Nimitz/Yamamoto- Obama/Osama

Agree on that last
Forum: Technical Questions & Information 07-11-2011, 08:28 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 683
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Here comes the old spring question again.

There are a lot of different alloys that are called spring wire. Actually the free length of the spring tells everything, if that hasn't changed, the spring is good as new. A coil compression spring...
Forum: Technical Questions & Information 07-11-2011, 08:15 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 2,767
Posted By Old Steve
Re: New to me Llama .32

The first Llama I saw was 1953 in 380 and it was almost an exact minature of the 1911, had it for years. Stoger imported the small frame Llama in 22LR and 32ACP, these models had fixed barrels. The...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 07-06-2011, 12:53 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,710
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Any pilots or aviation buffs here? Question about an old C-47.

The C-47 and the commercial DC-3 differ in several ways, big difference is the C-47 used the 14 cylinder (2 row) P&W R1830, while the DC-3 used the 9 cylinder Wright R1820. They made the same amount...
Forum: Curio & Relics Forum 05-18-2011, 12:58 PM
Replies: 226
Views: 74,406
Posted By Old Steve
Re: zastava m57/ tokarev 7.62x25

It is much simpler to make a barrel for a Tokarev than for a 1911, the designer went to some length to simplify manufacture. Since I have no means to do the rifling, my solution was to cut a 8 in...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 05-16-2011, 01:38 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,118
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Nimitz/Yamamoto- Obama/Osama

Took a look at Imperial Beach Radio Station on Google Earth, the Adcock array is still in the same place, seems to be upgraded significantly and some shielding added, and with vehicles around, seems...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 05-16-2011, 12:45 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,118
Posted By Old Steve
Agree completely, another interesting book i...

Agree completely, another interesting book i recommend is "Between Silk and Cyanide" by Leo Marks, who was a very young man who was in charge of the cyphers used by the SOE to communicate with agents...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 05-15-2011, 11:37 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,118
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Nimitz/Yamamoto- Obama/Osama

Yes; Polishshooter, information obtained from ULTRA was often extremely useful, I didn't intend to imply otherwise, but merely to point out that it wasn't entirely an unmixed blessing. And though the...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 05-15-2011, 02:54 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,118
Posted By Old Steve
Seems to me that attacking Yamamoto would have...

Seems to me that attacking Yamamoto would have just been a normal part of wartime operations, and that most military officers would have explained the presence of the P-38's as unfortunate...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 03-27-2011, 03:58 AM
Replies: 125
Views: 8,521
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Your favorite war movie?

There have been a great many good movies listed here, and I would never try to separate out the very best, but I very much liked "The Enemy Below" mostly because it developed the sense of the crew's...
Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum 03-23-2011, 11:40 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,652
Posted By Old Steve
Re: What do you call yourself ?

Have had occasion to remind some that "Engineer is what I do to earn money, not what I am". Similar could be said for any other trade or profession.
Forum: Curio & Relics Forum 03-18-2011, 01:43 AM
Replies: 226
Views: 74,406
Posted By Old Steve
Re: zastava m57/ tokarev 7.62x25

As far as lethality, the 7.62 x 25 has probably killed more men than any other small arm, this is because a majority of about 6 million Russian soldiers carried the PPSh-41 as their primary weapon...
Forum: Curio & Relics Forum 03-18-2011, 01:25 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 15,583
Posted By Old Steve
Re: What is the best Tokarev Pistol?

I believe it was deliberately made to visually resemble the Browning 1903, Colt 38 long, which was very common in Russia from long ago, as was the Mauser 96. For them, best of both worlds, the...
Forum: Curio & Relics Forum 03-18-2011, 01:12 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,656
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Where to buy TOKAREV ammo????

Not to worry, it is all subgun ammo, usually packed in 70 or 72 round boxes for PPSh41, but it is only loaded to about 35,000 psi and the pistols handle it fine, hey were designed to. Actually the...
Forum: The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum 02-11-2011, 11:02 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,877
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Glocks should be banned in the U.S.

The question of gun suicides is a very slippery one. I feel this very personally because a dear friend took this route last week. Suicide? I don't think so, he had been suffering from lung cancer...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-27-2011, 10:50 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 10,856
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Best Tank Design of WWII

Thinking about Jim K's comment. The first combat use of the Pershing I have been able to find is they were used, about 20, to provide supressive artillery fire across the Rhine during the capture of...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-27-2011, 08:24 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,405
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Army issued M-14's in Afghanistan

The information I got from an engineer who worked at Pickatinny in 1940, was that the .276 was favored, Macarthur "favored" the 06 because Congress told him to chamber the new rifle in 06 or forget...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-26-2011, 09:52 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 10,856
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Best Tank Design of WWII

While the T-34 was a brillant design, I also think the KV-1 has been underestimated, partly because it had the same gun as the early T-34 and was slower. But its chassis design was carried into the...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-25-2011, 11:46 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 10,856
Posted By Old Steve
I thought this thread was dead, but since Whirley...

I thought this thread was dead, but since Whirley sees fit to reopen it, I will suggest those interested go to Google Earth and search out the following city, selo Pokrovka,Belgorod, Russia and scan...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-21-2011, 01:40 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,405
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Army issued M-14's in Afghanistan

Aside from firing the M1 during Navy basic training I have no experience with the M1 or M14. I have no difficulty agreeing the M1 magazine was a bad idea, a real handicap in close quarters. But the...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-14-2011, 02:26 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,262
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Remington 1917 enfield question

It is relatively straightforward to rework the trigger guard by cutting off the forward extension of the trigger guard ahead of the magazine surround and welding it back in line, at least I did it...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-09-2011, 01:48 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 3,200
Posted By Old Steve
Re: WWII facts you might not know

One of the instructors at Treasure Island (Electronic Tech School) in 1950 spent most of an afternoon describing crewing a Jap plane-carrying sub back to the US after VJ day. They had no orders, no...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 01-09-2011, 01:02 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 7,488
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Personal weapons carried by U.S. Soldiers and marines

Hey Jim; I was just commenting on how different things were then. Lots of things I did when I was a kid that kids nowdays aren't allowed to do. Things change, often not to get better. I never heard...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 12-31-2010, 03:05 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 7,488
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Personal weapons carried by U.S. Soldiers and marines

My friend Ramon, texan with a battlefield commission in north africa, told me he had his mother send him his grandfathers Colt 45 SA revolver and he carried that into Sicily. Things were different I...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 12-16-2010, 09:54 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 3,622
Posted By Old Steve
Re: wonder what will be the best battle rifle of

+1 on ofitg's evaluation of reality.
Like old Navy rules, if you have speed advantage you can control the range. If you have range advantage too, you can avoid getting hit. AKs and M16s are Ok if...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 12-04-2010, 02:15 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 7,845
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Why weren't diesel engines used in tanks and trucks in WW2?

Don't start on the Navy, a modern carrier can run 30+ knots virtually forever, the escorts being liquid-fueled, each burn about 7000 gallons per hour to keep up. Congress thought nuclear powered...
Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum 12-01-2010, 11:46 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 808
Posted By Old Steve
Re: 243 win brass

A 308 case inadvertenly sized down to .243 and loaded as .243 might be quite dangerous, as the neck wall might be too thick and would jam up in the throat, this would result in unexpectedly high...
Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum 12-01-2010, 11:31 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 396
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Help with .243 load

That happens if the barrel twist is not fast enough for the longer bullets.
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 12-01-2010, 10:57 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 33,359
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Best Military Bolt action of all time?

Thanks Oscar, My father did have passing familarity with the SMLE prior to being sent to what I guess we would call OCS in 1915. He finished up as Leftenant in a motor transport unit in 1919. I would...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 12-01-2010, 10:40 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,991
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Amazing photos of Revolutionary War veterans

Great Stories, For myself, being close to 80, it is happiness to hear of people like them. And as far as the theory that people live longer nowdays, clearly they just don't die young quite as often....
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 12-01-2010, 09:56 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 824
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Why did the Germans use so many different caliber anti tank cannons?

Millright's comments are very accurate and rarely noted. The Marine term C_F_ surely applies to much of what they did. Hitler often gave spesific instructions that were ignored because of attitude or...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-30-2010, 01:36 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 33,359
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Best Military Bolt action of all time?

OscarM
I'm kind of out of line with the "cowardly" remark. sorry. but at the time the soldiers did think that way. For the record, my father was born in Shefield UK, and I have never owned an SMLE,...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-30-2010, 12:50 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 824
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Why did the Germans use so many different caliber anti tank cannons?

Lend-Lease helped a lot of things, but not much in armored things. But note that the Russians needed to kill a lot of Germans to save themselves, and we needed to have Germans killed so we could...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-29-2010, 03:08 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 824
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Why did the Germans use so many different caliber anti tank cannons?

Highlander
German history is not the history of WWII and the Great Patriotic War (fought at the same time). The german kept coming up with better guns and tanks because the Russian started out with...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-29-2010, 11:07 AM
Replies: 68
Views: 33,359
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Best Military Bolt action of all time?

Serious military history supports Jacks description of events at Singapore. The fighting men were very effective, but they were ordered to withdraw and left their supplies for the Jap to use...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-28-2010, 10:52 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 33,359
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Best Military Bolt action of all time?

There is always somebody who wants to think something is "BEST" and in terms of intrinsic quality the Rem 40 series are excellent. but he said "military bolt action" and in terms of ability to win a...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-28-2010, 04:20 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 7,845
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Why weren't diesel engines used in tanks and trucks in WW2?

Highlander

The English (US) definition of one hosepower is a force of 550 pounds operating over a distance of one foot in one second, or if you prefer a different but identical definition, it...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-27-2010, 08:44 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 3,622
Posted By Old Steve
Re: wonder what will be the best battle rifle of

I recall reading about the poor Afgans having to fight the Russians with obsolete British 303s, and thinking that in the mountains of Afganistan it would have serious advantges over the AK47. In...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-27-2010, 08:37 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,167
Posted By Old Steve
Re: US weapon systems cancelled or to be cancelled

Well. I designed the prototype power converter for the Longbow seeker for the Hellfire missile, and in the course of testing that got to see all the components of the millimeter wave seeker. The only...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-27-2010, 07:52 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 7,845
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Why weren't diesel engines used in tanks and trucks in WW2?

Interesting comments, Highlander hasn't got it figured out that horsepower is measured in feet-pounds per minute (time). If you have a high-reving engine with lots of horsepower, and need more...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-26-2010, 04:14 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 7,845
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Why weren't diesel engines used in tanks and trucks in WW2?

The Russian diesel tank engine was a very refined design, and in the Soviet way several design teams were given the job, and the winner was the one selected, it was the only design they built. Being...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-17-2010, 12:32 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,641
Posted By Old Steve
Re: M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

The real problem militarily for the BAR was the weight and the lack of a field replacable barrel, I guess they get shot out fairly fast in combat, but it sure would be fun to have one.
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-17-2010, 12:24 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,059
Posted By Old Steve
Re: WW2 Balloon bomb attacks on the US

I do recall a school assembly where they discussed the balloon bombs and advised us to avoid and report them. I lived on the west slope of the Cascade mountains about 30 miles north of Portland Ore...
Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum 11-04-2010, 10:52 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,329
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Civil War Landmines

And some Naval mines

While brousing the library at Naval Electronics School at Treasure Island,CA in 1950, I came across an article in the many volume Naval History by a lieutenant CSN, written in...
Forum: Technical Questions & Information 11-02-2010, 04:10 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 897
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Arquebus

Pegler put the effective range of the arquebus at about 20 yards, the difference wasn't so much the difference in capability as the powder. The "corning" process for making desirable grain size was...
Forum: Technical Questions & Information 11-02-2010, 03:54 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 961
Posted By Old Steve
Re: Good info on cut vs button rifling

Thanks for the post. Detailed reason for doing things one way or another is often hard to find.
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