Firearm of the Day.

[sdmc530]

Originally Posted by Caleb

Glad you guys like it, I was considering stopping the daily posts if no one was interested. I don’t mind rotating shifts as long as it’s coordinated well. We might get 3 firearms of the day if not, lol... I have 2 more in line for this weekend, after that either I can keep going or someone can pick up on Monday.

I will attempt to do a Monday gun of the day.....I don't know if I can do nearly as well as you do but I will give it a try. I think this post is awesome!!

[MajO]

Loved the P38 ever since it was "featured" on the 1960s TV show "The Man From Uncle. Never owned one, but did have a P5; the successor.

[Caleb]

Today’s Firearm of the Day is......

US Rifle, Caliber .30 / M1 Garand:

The M1 Garand is a .30 caliber semi-automatic rifle that was the standard U.S. service rifle during World War II and the Korean War and also saw limited service during the Vietnam War. Most M1 rifles were issued to U.S. forces, though many hundreds of thousands were also provided as foreign aid to American allies. The Garand is still used by drill teams and military honor guards. It is also widely used by civilians for hunting, target shooting, and as a military collectible. The M1 rifle was named after its Canadian-American designer, John Garand. It was the first standard-issue semi-automatic military rifle. By all accounts the M1 rifle served with distinction. General George S. Patton called it "the greatest battle implement ever devised". The M1 replaced the bolt action M1903 Springfield as the standard U.S. service rifle in the mid 1930s, and was itself replaced by the selective fire M14 rifle in the late 1950s.

Although the name "Garand" is frequently pronounced /ɡəˈrænd/, the preferred pronunciation is /ˈɡærənd/ (to rhyme with errand), according to experts and people who knew John Garand, the weapon's designer. Frequently referred to as the "Garand" or "M1 Garand" by civilians, its official designation when it was the issue rifle in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps was "U.S. Rifle, Caliber 30, M1" or just "M1" and Garand was not mentioned.


This one is dedicated to the late but Great......Dave Waits. You are missed brother.


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[sdmc530]

classic!

[Caleb]

Good morning!

Today’s Firearm of the Day is....

The SKS:

The SKS is a Soviet semi-automatic carbine chambered for the 7.62×39mm round, designed in 1943 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. Its complete designation, SKS-45, is an initialism for Samozaryadny Karabin sistemy Simonova, 1945 (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова, 1945; Self-loading Carbine of (the) Simonov system, 1945). The SKS-45 was manufactured at Tula Arsenal from 1949-1958 and at Izhevsk Arsenal in just 1953 and 1954, resulting in a total Soviet production of about 2.7 million carbines. In the early 1950s, the Soviets took the SKS carbine out of front-line service and replaced it with the AK-47; however, the SKS remained in second-line service for decades. It is still used as a ceremonial firearm today. The SKS was widely exported, and was also licensed for production by then Eastern Bloc nations, Romania and East Germany, as well as China, where it was designated the "Type 56 Carbine". The East German version was known as the Karabiner S, the Albanian as the Model 561 and North Korean as the "Type 63". The SKS is popular on the civilian surplus market as a hunting and marksmanship semi-automatic rifle in many countries, including the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Its age and numbers make it relatively inexpensive to purchase, and steel cased 7.62x39mm ammunition is one of the least expensive center fire cartridges currently on the market. The SKS was the second firearm to be chambered for the 7.62×39mm M43 round, with the first being the RPD.

History:

During World War II, many countries realized that existing rifles, such as the Mosin–Nagant, were too long and heavy and fired powerful cartridges that were effective in medium machine guns with a range in excess of 2,000 metres (2,200 yd), creating excessive recoil. These cartridges, such as the 8×57mm Mauser, .303 British, .30-06 Springfield, and 7.62×54mmR were effective in rifles to ranges of up to 1,000 metres (1,100 yards); however, it was noted that most firefights took place at maximum ranges of between 100 and 300 metres (110 and 330 yards). Only a highly trained specialist, such as a sniper, could employ the full-power rifle cartridge to its true potential. Both the Soviet Union and Germany realized this and designed new firearms for smaller, intermediate-power cartridges. The U.S. fielded an intermediate round in the .30 (7.62 mm) U.S., now known as the .30 Carbine; used in the M1 carbine, it was widely used by American forces in WWII but never replaced the .30-06 rifle cartridge.

The German approach was the production of a series of intermediate cartridges and rifles in the interwar period, eventually developing the Maschinenkarabiner, or machine-carbine, which later evolved into the Sturmgewehr 44, which was produced in large numbers during the war, and chambered in the 7.92×33mm Kurz intermediate round.

The Soviet Union type qualified a new intermediate round in 1943, at the same time it began to field the Mosin–Nagant M44 carbine as a general issue small arm. However, the M44, which had a side-folding bayonet and shorter overall length, still fired the full-powered round of its predecessors. A small number of SKS rifles were tested on the front line in early 1945 against the Germans in World War II.[4]

Design-wise, the SKS relies on the AVS-36 (developed by the same designer, Simonov) to a point that some consider it a shortened AVS-36, stripped of select-fire capability and re-chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.[5] This viewpoint is problematic, as the AVS uses a sliding block bolt locking device, while the SKS employs a more reliable tilting-bolt design, an entirely different style. The bolt mechanism is one of the defining features of a rifle, having a different bolt means the SKS and AVS merely appear similar in layout, while differing vastly in bolt lockup, caliber, size, and that one has a fixed magazine and the other has a detachable magazine. It also owes a debt to the SVT-40 and M44 that it replaced, incorporating both the semi-automatic firepower of the SVT (albeit in a more manageable cartridge) and the carbine size and integral bayonet of the bolt-action M44.

In 1949, the SKS was officially adopted into the Soviet Army, manufactured at the Tula Armory from 1949 until 1955 and the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant in 1953 and 1954. Although the quality of Soviet carbines manufactured at these state-run arsenals was quite high, its design was already obsolete compared to the Kalashnikov which was selective-fire, lighter, had three times the magazine capacity, and had the potential to be less labor-intensive to manufacture. Gradually over the next few years, AK-47 production increased until the extant SKS carbines in service were relegated primarily to non-infantry and to second-line troops. They remained in service in this fashion even as late as the 1980s, and possibly the early 1990s. To this day, the SKS carbine is used by some ceremonial Russian honor guards, much the same way the M14 Rifle is within the United States; it is far less ubiquitous than the AK-47 but both original Soviet SKS rifles and copies can still be found today in civilian hands as well as in the hands of third-world militias and insurgent groups.

The SKS was to be a gap-filling firearm manufactured using the proven operating mechanism design of the 14.5×114mm PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle and using proven milled forging manufacturing techniques. This was to provide a fallback for the radically new and experimental design of the AK-47, in the event that the AK proved to be a failure. In fact, the original stamped receiver AK-47 had to be quickly redesigned to use a milled receiver which delayed production, and extended the SKS carbine's service life


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[sdmc530]

Nice bud, I really do like these. I will do Monday version to give you a break. I love reading this post ever day. Nice work.

[Caleb]

Originally Posted by sdmc530

Nice bud, I really do like these. I will do Monday version to give you a break. I love reading this post ever day. Nice work.

Roger that, you have the wheel.

[sdmc530]

Originally Posted by Caleb

Roger that, you have the wheel.

I can't wait to show you my favorite shotgun ever!!! Its an oldie, but I love the thing!!

[Caleb]

Originally Posted by sdmc530

I can't wait to show you my favorite shotgun ever!!! Its an oldie, but I love the thing!!

Can’t wait to see it.

[sdmc530]

Monday 10/30/17 firearm of the day!! I am a bit early but wanted to get it up tonight before I head off to bed. Been working nights so its pretty close to Monday anyways! (pictures are stock, not of mine)

One of my favorite “unique” shotguns. I own one of these and it’s in excellent condition, with nickel finished chambered in 12g. Just beautiful stocks back then. Never fired it because, well, I am terrified of it!
I know what you are thinking,” a Winchester 1911? Winchester didn’t make a 1911 you ignorant dope.” But they did. The 1911 SL shotgun! John Moses Browning was also responsible for this 1911, but in a different way than you might think.
The 1911 SL (self loading) shotgun was Winchester’s first attempt to enter the auto loading shotgun market. It was designed to compete against the Browning Auto-5, but failed. It was a flawed design that could cause serious injury; it even earned the nickname the “widow maker.” Winchester made about 83,000 of the model 1911 SL and they are still fairly common in guns shops and at shows. They were made in 12, 16, 20 and 28 gauge.
About a decade before the introduction of the 1911 SL, Browning offered his Auto-5 shotgun to Winchester, but they not able to reach an agreement and Browning took his design to FN in Belgium and later Remington and Savage in the U.S. The Browning designed Auto-5 was a huge hit becoming the second bestselling auto loading shotgun of all time. Winchester designed the 1911 SL to try and get a piece of the action, but you could say it was too little, too late.
Winchester’s attempt to design an auto-loading shotgun was troubled. The main problem was to get around John Browning’s patents. Browning had been meticulous in securing patents on his design. Ironically this is something he had learned to do while working for Winchester in the past — notably designing the 1894 lever action rifle and the 1897 pump shotgun. T.C. Johnson was the main designer that worked on the 1911 SL. He once said, “It took me nearly 10 years to design an automatic shotgun which would not be an infringement on the Browning gun.”
The Browning Auto-5 uses metal recoil rings that control the action when it is fired. These were patented. Winchester uses two fiber washers instead. Over time these break down and cause excessive recoil. This has resulted in a lot of cracked or broken stocks. This was one problem with the design but not the most significant.

Like the Auto-5, the 1911 SL is a long recoil action shotgun, meaning the barrel and bolt are locked together while moving to the rear after a shell had been fired, ejecting the spent shell, then chambering a new on while returning to battery.
The Winchester 1911 SL holds five shells in a tubular magazine located under the barrel. Around the magazine there is a coiled spring that brings the barrel back into place after the gun is fired. This is all very similar to the Browning Auto-5, but this is about where the similarities end.
The biggest difference is how the 1911 SL is loaded. One of the parts John Browning patented was the charging tab on the bolt of the Auto-5. That is a pretty important part of the shotgun and Winchester couldn’t use one. To charge the 1911 SL the shooter had to cycle the shotgun the same way it worked when fired — by compressing the barrel to work the action.
This is not easy to do. Winchester put a checkered area on the barrel to act as a grip. The shooter grabbed the barrel, placed the butt of the shotgun on something hard and pulled. Depending on how it was gripped, this could cause the muzzle to be in an unsafe place. This is how she earned the nickname “the widow maker.”
If you do a search on some of the popular firearm forums for the 1911 SL you will undoubtedly find some references to the widow maker taking a life or causing serious injury. It was pretty common for a hunter, not wanting to get the shotgun muddy, to use his boot when charging the gun. This could put the muzzle right in the face of the rocket scientist loading it. Hopefully they knew a brain surgeon that was actually smart.
Even as recent as 2005 some Oklahoma police officers were hurt while trying to unload a 1911 SL.
To clear a round from the chamber you have to pull the barrel back just like if you were loading it. This is the most dangerous aspect of this shotgun.
The Winchester 1911 SL is an interesting shotgun to say the least. There are still some people using them but most are considered a curiosity. Around 2005 4 people in the US shot themselves with this weapon.



See it in action:









www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1zadbdIbCw