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Picked this up for what I would call cheap. In pretty good condition. Was able to pick it up instead of ship which was nice as I was able to visit a great bullet maker supplier which turned out was across the street. Crest is a faint ETAT BELGE BIRMINGHAM.

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The 765 family and reloading supplies

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Got the full tour of the place and they had the bullets I was looking for. Highly recommend them. The make their own pistol bullets

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Gee, that looks familiar.

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Excellent grouping of rifles!

Very cool!! The bore and crown on this one is awesome. First thing I thought is that some reloading will occur in short order...

willyj73 wrote:Gee, that looks familiar.

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I'm well traveled in my old age

qz2026 wrote:Very cool!! The bore and crown on this one is awesome. First thing I thought is that some reloading will occur in short order...

Thanks Tom, I was looking for projectiles to use for French 7.5. Have some testing to do for differences in boat tail verses flat base 150s. I have heard bad things about the boat tails being all over the place in mas36, but first up is mas49/56. Got one of those starmetal gas valves for it.
I did also pick up some 150s .311 which is the small package there for the Belgian/argy/peru family

Quite common on these to find them in matching except bolt. This is one of those as you can see the stock was a repurposed long rifle stock. Originaly a Birmingham long rifle that was redone as a 1916 (carbine) short rifle. The band spring was plugged and the bottom nose spring was also plugged when added and the stock was stamped to match. This was advertised as having a stuck slider, which it did and that is why the wetness around the sight. However it was just a little rust and has been fixed rather easy with a little pb blaster and a brass bore brush. I guess the stuck slider scared all the bidders away cause there was only one other bidder. Some good buys are out there if you are lucky.

Very nice, Brad! I have one that looks like its cousin. Haven't shot it yet though. Have you had a chance to slug the bore yet?

Nope, down the road for this one. Right in the middle of French testing and getting ready for hunting so it will be a while till I get to this one. What did yours slug out to?

.311"

TulaTom wrote:.311"

And that's what I expect. I just acquired some 310-312 at the bullet shop 150gr so I will load up some testers

Nice bunch Des.

took the rifle apart and it is just like new inside

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