my U.S. military collection...

[citydesk175]

Springfield 03 and more (gone)
But This thread takes me back to Nam and I wondered what I could get besides the M3 grease gun I kept in the arms locker.

I figure I could have signed out A deuce and a half with 45, m16 and M60 any time I wanted to volunteer for officer of the guard and maybe get 20 troops similarly armed to fill up the truck.

Actually I got that once a week at Bien Hoa Army Base in 1971 after 2 brigades of the First Cav rotated home leaving more and more guard duty to the remaining units. The ultimate insult came when the Gary Owen Brigade of the Cav left and the Base was shrunk down to the perimeter of our BN and the BN CO became Base CO too as well as having charge of all Guards for the perimeter. Sigh, He fooled all of them by making LTG eventually (Thomas Flynn for those keeping score)

BTW in those days ammo was free, beer was a dime and Martell was $4.00 a fifth.

Regards to all
CD175

[Teejay9]

Originally Posted by citydesk175

Springfield 03 and more (gone)
But This thread takes me back to Nam and I wondered what I could get besides the M3 grease gun I kept in the arms locker.

I figure I could have signed out A deuce and a half with 45, m16 and M60 any time I wanted to volunteer for officer of the guard and maybe get 20 troops similarly armed to fill up the truck.

Actually I got that once a week at Bien Hoa Army Base in 1971 after 2 brigades of the First Cav rotated home leaving more and more guard duty to the remaining units. The ultimate insult came when the Gary Owen Brigade of the Cav left and the Base was shrunk down to the perimeter of our BN and the BN CO became Base CO too as well as having charge of all Guards for the perimeter. Sigh, He fooled all of them by making LTG eventually (Thomas Flynn for those keeping score)

BTW in those days ammo was free, beer was a dime and Martell was $4.00 a fifth.

Regards to all
CD175

That's funny, my buddy did bring back an M3. When we took it out back home and fired it, we got so paranoid about having a pilfered, fully auto grease gun that neither one of us wanted it at our house. I guess DHS is right about vets. TJ

[paddywonka]

Colt 1911,Black Army 1918
S&W Victory Model
M1 Carbine,Underwood 1943
M1 Garrand,Winchester
1903 Springfield Sniper Rifle

[Fordmechanic]

2 M1 garands, Mauser 98K Russian capture,Mauser 98k soldier bringback,2 M1 Carbines, Lee Enfield, Swiss K31,Swedish Mauser, 91/30 Mosin sniper /w PU scope, 91/30 hex head, 91/59 Mosin carbine, 03 Sringfield, M1917 Rifle, Tokarev SVT 40, 1952 Tula SKS semi auto. OHHH , and about 6000 rds of mil surp ammo.

[uzim16]

is there any gov owned factory still making small arms?

[Smoke Rise'n]

1903 Springfield
1903A3 Remington
M-1 Garand Springfield
M-1 Carbine Winchester

[22shot]

Originally Posted by uzim16

is there any gov owned factory still making small arms?

If you mean U.S. gov: No.

[warriflefan]

The russians did some prototype M95's with a gas piston for automatic fire. You can see some similarity between the designs of the rotating bolt head with a non rotating bolt carrier between this and the russian semi auto rifles.

http://www.hungariae.com/Mann95Ru.htm

[marlin795]

Originally Posted by Xracer

Sorry John, I think you misunderstood me.

During WWI (1917-18) The Springfield Armory manufactured approx. 25,800 M1911 pistols.

The REAL Springfield Armory (the United States Armory at Springfield, MA) was established by the U.S. Government in 1777 and operated thru the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, and Korean War....and finally was closed in 1968.... http://www.nps.gov/spar/history.html

The Springfield Armory was noted for producing the Springfield Rifles of Civil War fame, the "Trapdoor" Springfield of the Indian Wars and Spanish-American War, the U.S. Army Krag Rifle & Carbine, the Springfield M1903 of WWI, the M1 Garand of WWII & Korea, and the M14 of early Vietnam fame.

About 1970, a commercial company bought the much of the surpus parts, machinery, and name rights to the name "Springfield Armory".

The current Springfield Armory pistols may be copies or clones, but they're not military M1911s.

FYI.....military M1911s and M1911A1s were made by:

M1911 (WWI - 1917-1918) were made by:

Colt, Springfield Armory, and Remington-UMC.

M1911A1 (WWII - 1941-1945) were made by:

Colt, Singer, Union Switch & Signal, Ithaca, and Remington-Rand.

Hey, is my 1887 Springfield trapdoor a rare collectors item? What's it worth?
Sorry I have holding out on you guys about this piece of history on my mantle.