Lets see your Guns.

[Johnsond]

16 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

If they are aircraft guns,one will feed from the right,the other from the left.

 

1919s and M2s eject vertically.

 

You don't wear out barrels fast in a slipstream,plus they fire from an open bolt,plenty of cooling at 250 mph

 

I am very familiar with 1919s and M2s.Some more pictures would have been cool.

There’s not that much of the fine detail left Mike, if the round wasn’t in the chamber we would have been ok to break them down but health and safety et etc 🤷‍♂️

Those might help Mike, the shrouds are a bit different than what you see online.

There was Anti Aircraft towers in this area during WW2 and I think that round may well be an incendiary type according to a bit of online mooching. If you have any ideas it would be interesting to know for sure what they were off. 

 

Edited May 7 by Johnsond

[Mike Hill]

Yup they are 1919s.

 

I can't tell for sure what's going on in the back where the spade grips/ solenoid/ air actuator should be.

 

A buggered shroud or barrel is a hallmark of a crash but those shrouds do look like water jackets and some were water cooled but obviously not on aircraft.

 

I will send the pictures to a guy who will know for sure. He is in another timezone so might be 12 hours or so

 

Round in the chamber without a primer strike is weird for a open bolt gun but who knows? 

[Johnsond]

2 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

Yup they are 1919s.

 

I can't tell for sure what's going on in the back where the spade grips/ solenoid/ air actuator should be.

 

A buggered shroud or barrel is a hallmark of a crash but those shrouds do look like water jackets and some were water cooled but obviously not on aircraft.

 

I will send the pictures to a guy who will know for sure. He is in another timezone so might be 12 hours or so

 

Round in the chamber without a primer strike is weird for an open bolt gun but who knows? 

Is the open bolt an RAF only thing  or were all brownings in UK usage the same. I’ve seen a couple of water cooled twin aa set ups online. 

[Mike Hill]

42 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Is the open bolt an RAF only thing  or were all brownings in UK usage the same. I’ve seen a couple of water cooled twin aa set ups online. 

 

I'd say it would have just been the aircraft guns.

[Mike Hill]

The trigger bar on an open bolt gun would have been quite a bit shorter than a closed bolt gun because it releases the bolt into battery and not simply the striker.

 

It's been years since I have opened one up and then it was trying to get it to fire attached to an air compressor.The seals in the actuator were buggered and we filled it with O ring grease to get it to seal.

 

Sometimes I really miss New Zealand.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMljA1wm0FY&pp=ygUYT2VybGlrb24gZ3VuIG5ldyB6ZWFsYW5k

 

[roys]

I’m impressed Mike

[Mike Hill]

1 hour ago, roys said:

I’m impressed Mike

That's not me shooting BTW, there was a film of them shooting feral goats with an Oerlikon but it got taken down or disappeared. 

 

Tonight I tried my new old  barrel on my Krag Jørgensen from 1897. Shoots really good .

[Johnsond]

7 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

That's not me shooting BTW, there was a film of them shooting feral goats with an Oerlikon but it got taken down or disappeared. 

 

Tonight I tried my new old  barrel on my Krag Jørgensen from 1897. Shoots really good .

100m ?

If it is that’s not a shabby group for irons 

[Mike Hill]

55 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

100m ?

If it is that’s not a shabby group for irons 

Yes 100m

 

First time out with that Rifle and just some random old reloads 

[Joe Newton]

11 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

Yes 100m

 

First time out with that Rifle and just some random old reloads 

What size target, Mike?