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A Thing of Beauty

Posted on 14 December 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

May I Present and Stay Tuned! More to Follow!   The following are pictures of Big Country’s FINISHED & RESTORED 1939 Short-Magazine Lee-Enfield #3. Proudly Made in the BSA Factory in Birmingham, Small Heath, Great Britain.                  

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Milsurp Corner: 9mm Makarov Cartridge

Posted on 30 April 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

The 9mm Makarov Cartridge This article brought back some very fond memories of my Curio and Relic Days when the Big Brown UPS truck of joy would deliver fully functional long rifles and handguns right to my door! But alas those days are long gone so all I have are memories and archived blog post…

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Curio and Relic Corner: The Zastava M48 Mauser

Posted on 2 July 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Zastava M48 Mauser: Milsurp Gem   It’s articles like these that make me want to get my C&R FFL03 License renewed so I can have that Big Brown truck of Joy deliver mil-surp weapons direct to my doorstep but I know I will never again see the glory days of ample supplies of Yugo Mausers,…

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Know Your Weapons: The Cap and Ball Revolvers Prior to the Peacemaker

Posted on 28 January 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Prior to the Peacemaker The Revolvers that ‘Really’ Won the West   Before the Colt Peacemaker? Before the Colt Peacemaker there was a whole boatload of other Colt single action revolvers. And in truth they had a lot more influence in the Old West than did the Peacemaker because the wildest and woolliest times had passed by…

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Know Your Weapons: The Astra 600 – Old School Cool

Posted on 10 May 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

The Astra 600 – Old School Cool   In my 20 or so years collecting I only came across an Astra  600 once, and I passed on it because the guy was way too proud of it and would not budge on the price, primarily because of the German markings. I regret that now. This…

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Know Your Guns: History of the East German Makarov

Posted on 10 May 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

HISTORY OF THE EAST GERMAN MAKAROV   When I was hot and heavy into Curio and Relic collecting fifteen or so years back I had several different flavors of Makarov, including a true East German PM (with original DDR markings) a Polish P-64, A Hungarian FEG PA-63 and a very rare Bulgarian PPK clone. As…

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Know Your Weapons: The .30-40 U.S. Krag-Jorgenson in Combat

Posted on 23 April 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

THE .30-40 U.S. KRAG-JORGENSEN IN COMBAT I had a couple of Krag’s I traded for over the years but I never really cared for them. They were too long and the action was not near as smooth as a Mauser. Caliber wise they are like shooting a .30-06.  

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SKS Collecting And Identification: A Buyer’s Guide

Posted on 9 April 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

SKS Collecting And Identification: A Buyer’s Guide   I had a C&R License (FFL 03) for around twenty years off and on back in the “golden era” when you could find plenty of German and Yugo Mausers, Lee- Enfields, Mosin-Nagants, Swiss K-31’s and Norinco and Russian SKS’s all for very reasonable prices. It was a…

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Know Your Weapons: Mannlicher M1895 Rifle

Posted on 31 March 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY’S M-95 Rifle   “The M95 proved itself one of the finest battle rifles of the First World War. It weighed around a pound less than its equally lengthy peers and was slim and almost delicate by comparison. The soldiers who carried it appreciated its light weight but the Allied soldiers facing the M95 in…

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Know Your Weapons: The SKS Carbine is Still Viable After a Quarter Century

Posted on 9 August 2021 by The Tactical Hermit

The SKS Carbine is Still Viable After a Quarter Century   For the doubters out there my kids when they were 12 years old could hit 5 gallon buckets with open sights at three hundred yards with every flavor of SKS: Norinco, Russian and Yugo. That’s minute of man accurate packaged in a tough, dependable…

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