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  1. WebleyGreene455

    For Sale Rifles & Militaria

    Good afternoon, everyone. I'm trying to raise some cash for a new rifle and downsize my collection a bit, and so I've got some items up for sale here. Anything can be shipped (firearms to FFL, of course) but I'd very much like to try doing local sales to members if at all possible. PMs are open...
  2. WebleyGreene455

    Best Place to Sell Firearms etc?

    Hi y'all, If this is in the wrong place, maybe someone can move it and I apologize in advance. I need to raise a little capital for something else and I want to sell off a couple of firearms and perhaps some other related items, but I don't know the best place to do it. I have a GunBroker...
  3. WebleyGreene455

    Martini-Henry Gunsmithing

    Hi everyone, I'm revisiting an idea for a project I've had in mind for a while and I'm in need of suggestions for a gunsmith to help me out with it. At the moment, the project can take one of two paths: Either rebore or rebarrel a Swedish Remington rolling-block from 8x58 Krag to .405...
  4. WebleyGreene455

    A Different Kind of Hunt

    Folks of AH, This is a difficult topic for me to bring up but I think it'll help me to do it. In May my father died after around a month of being in and out of the hospital, the poorest excuse for a physical rehab facility I've ever seen, and a couple of weeks in hospice. Not long after, we...
  5. WebleyGreene455

    What's up with this compass?

    Hi folks. What's the deal with this compass? It's apparently a forestry compass, so I understand why having the clinometer would be useful. Tree heights and slopes and so on. But reversing East and West confuses me, and I can't figure why North is apparently placed at 180 degrees instead of...
  6. WebleyGreene455

    Something New From Nepal

    Received this in the post today, all the way from Kathmandu and made to my request: It's a slightly-modified version of a 19th-century military-issue khukuri, one of the first standardised patterns issued to soldiers and in service from at least the mid-1800s up through WWI. If anyone can...
  7. WebleyGreene455

    How much is a custom rifle going to set me back?

    Hi y'all. Ever since I joined AH.com, I've had one particular kind of firearm in my mind whether I needed it or not. A vintage-style single-shot big-bore rifle. The exact type of rifle has varied a bit, as has the calibre, but the basics have remained the same. At first I thought about a...
  8. WebleyGreene455

    Identifying Mauser Model A vs B vs...?

    Good evening y'all. I'm looking at a trio of Mauser rifles in the hopes of getting one and using it alongside my .303 BSA sporter in the future. Rifle #1 is advertised as a circa 1928 sporter. 8mm Mauser, 22" half-octagonal ribbed barrel, pear-shaped bolt handle, has a dovetailed claw mount on...
  9. WebleyGreene455

    Rebuilding a 8mm Mauser

    Good evening everyone. A couple of my other threads on here have intimated I want to have a rifle done up for me in 9.3x62mm. The good part is, I think I've found a suitable donor rifle. It's a late-'20s/early-'30s Mauser sporting rifle currently in 7.92x57mm, has claw mounts (but no rings)...
  10. WebleyGreene455

    Friends in the UK for a new shooter?

    Hullo everyone. I've got a friend in the UK who's never fired a gun before and wants to give it a go. Unfortunately, aside from being in the UK (I don't live there and don't really know gun rules or locations), he's got scoliosis and is worried about being able to hold a rifle and deal with...
  11. WebleyGreene455

    Vintage German Versus British Batteries?

    Good morning everyone. So this is just something I've been musing over a little. Let's say the year is around 1924 or so. How comparable are the following batteries in terms of energy and velocity, particularly the last two? Br: .303 Lee-action sporting rifle De: 7mm Mauser 1895/96 sporting...
  12. WebleyGreene455

    BSA Sporter .303

    Morning all. Back in July, I celebrated my 30th birthday and received this rifle as a gift from my family. Thought y'all might like to see it. Based on the proofs, I date it between 1904 and 1925 and a marking on the receiver suggests it was sold out of service in South Africa or thereabouts...
  13. WebleyGreene455

    Antler knife handle?

    Hello all. I've gotten it into my head that I might like to try assembling a knife from some assorted parts and I'd like to use a section of stag antler for the handle. My question is, do I have to drill out the centre of the antler or is there another way? I've read I can boil the antler to the...
  14. WebleyGreene455

    Fijian War Clubs?

    Good evening everyone. This is kinda a long shot but since we've got people from around the world here, does anyone know anything about Fijian war clubs? I'm looking around for some (relatively) inexpensive ones and could use some info on them, especially on how I can tell an actual war club...
  15. WebleyGreene455

    Sharps Rifle: .450 BPE vs... ?

    Good evening everyone. Waaay back, I mentioned (I'm pretty sure) wanting to have a rifle made in some big-bore cartridge using either a modern-made Sharps 1874 or Winchester 1885 as the base. While I don't necessarily see myself using this rifle in Africa (unless I find myself able to hunt lion...
  16. WebleyGreene455

    ID this rifle?

    Hello everyone, I've offered to help someone on another forum with ID'ing a rifle he wants to purchase and was hoping y'all can give us a hand. A bolt-action chambered in .257 Roberts, with a (presumably aftermarket) Winchester 70-style safety. Me and a couple other fellows think it might be a...
  17. WebleyGreene455

    British Cavalry Swords (Victorian through WWI)

    Good evening everyone. Bit of an odd question but does anyone know about these? I saw a bunch of WWI-era (well, early 1920s) British (Irish, apparently) cavalry officers on TV with an unusual sword I've not seen before and can't quite place. Now, I thought I could at least identify the rough...
  18. WebleyGreene455

    Advice needed before buying

    Good afternoon, everyone. Some of you might remember a thread I made a few months ago. I purchased a rifle with the intention of using it as the basis for a rebuild project, the rifle turned out to be pretty much unsuitable for what I wanted to do, and has been set aside pending a resale or...
  19. WebleyGreene455

    M14 birch stock + water/humidity

    Good evening all. I need a little advice on something, if you please. My absolute favorite rifle in my collection is my M14. It was my college graduation gift, built on a new-made receiver and barrel from USGI parts with a M14E2 Automatic Rifle's pistol-gripped stock. Alas, a few of its...
  20. WebleyGreene455

    Camo patterns (pics please)

    Good evening everyone. This is kinda an odd question for this site 'cause it has little to do with hunting (and I'm not sure it belongs under this category but since it's technically gear-related, I figured why not?), but I figured some of y'all might be able to help anyway 'cause I've seen a...
  21. WebleyGreene455

    .35 Whelen conversion/rebore/rechamber

    Hi y'all. Just a quick question. I'm looking at a Mauser rifle that used to be 8mm and got converted to .35 Whelen and I'm wondering if there's a way to re-convert it to 9.3x62. I don't think so, 'cause the Whelen is a bit longer overall and the bullet diameter is only .2mm larger on the 9.3 (so...
  22. WebleyGreene455

    Advice Needed

    Good evening, everyone. This is going to be something of a long post, I reckon. It's as much a request for help and advice as a way to get my thoughts down on "paper" so to speak and lift some weight off my chest. So please bear with me if I seem to ramble a little bit. Here goes. Simply put...
  23. WebleyGreene455

    Visiting Egypt before/after a hunting trip?

    Good afternoon everyone. Sooner or later I'll be able to go to Africa on a hunting trip. Where and what for, I have plenty of time to figure out, but a thought struck me today. Has anyone visited Egypt before or after going on their hunt? I've always wanted to go there and it's one of the...
  24. WebleyGreene455

    Vintage Falling Blocks!

    Let's see some pics and info! Your own rifles, ones you've found for sale, ones you just like, all sorts! I already made a thread about this one I found: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/steyr-falling-block-8mm-guedes.55673/#post-633216 Here's another nifty one I've never seen before...
  25. WebleyGreene455

    Steyr Falling-Block 8mm Guedes?

    Found this rifle on OldGuns.net on my usual trawl-through of the stuff for sale. Has anyone ever seen one of these before? I've copy/pasted the listing and included their little photo gallery. PORTUGUESE 8mm GUEDES BUILT IN AUSTRIA AND LIKELY USED IN BOER WARS - Serial number 6398 matching on...
  26. WebleyGreene455

    My New (Old) Rifle!

    Bought this Mauser 98 sporter last Friday, picked it up at my gun shop yesterday. 7.92x57mm, spoon/knife bolt handle, objective-type scope mount. Scope's a single-post-reticle, 4x magnification. Front sight seems to have a silver bead on it. Pretty much zero markings on it, so I don't know how...
  27. WebleyGreene455

    Freighter Travel To/From Africa

    Has anyone here ever done this, looked into this, considered this, or anything? I thought maybe it would be a fun alternative to flying, since even though I've been on a heap of transatlantic flights since I was 4 years old, I just really do not like being on airplanes all that much. After...
  28. WebleyGreene455

    Can I just say...

    ... that I'm happy to be on this forum? I've only been here for just a few months, I haven't really posted a whole lot, and I highly doubt I'm ever gonna get to go to Africa before I'm 40 (or after, for that matter), but I'm happy to be here. I've joined a few forums in the past year, trying to...
  29. WebleyGreene455

    U.S. Gun Inletting & Stocks (or alternatives!)

    Has anyone ever heard of these folks before? Here's their website: http://gunstockinletting.com/index.html They've got a style listed that's close to what I'm looking for in a stock for a Mauser rifle want to build (I think they can modify it slightly to fit what I'm after), and they seem to...
  30. WebleyGreene455

    What do you use for carrying your ammunition etc?

    This doesn't just apply to hunting, I'm curious about anything from hunting to hiking to just going for a walkabout on your property if you have some. I'm a fairly traditionalist person, so I like wood and steel rifles and leather equipment, and at the moment I'm thinking (at least for the...
  31. WebleyGreene455

    Springfield '03A3 Calibre Options

    Hi everyone. This is just an idle thought at the moment, since I have some other stuff planned for the near future, but here goes. A couple years ago I picked up a sporterized Remington 1903A3 (pics will be added later, I'm writing this at the gym). It's not a pretty job but it's not the worst...
  32. WebleyGreene455

    Old-fashioned Mauser Stocks? (help needed)

    Hi everyone. Edumacate me on something, please. Per a bunch of my other threads, I've been interested in rebuilding an old Mauser 98 sporter into something a little... sexier. On the one hand I've been thinking about putting a Kar98k barrel and a shortened Gewehr 98 military stock on it for an...
  33. WebleyGreene455

    9.3x62mm Mauser Rear Sight

    Hi everyone. I'm wanting to start working on a 9.3x62mm Mauser as a sort of medium-long-term project. I want to use a Kar98k/military-style tangent rear sight on this rifle, but I can't find one and don't really know where else to look. Obviously a sight designed for 8mm Mauser won't work with...
  34. WebleyGreene455

    Mauser 98 Barrel Profile

    Hello everyone, Per a couple of my other threads, I'm interested in building a Mauser 98 in 9.3x62mm. The project has suffered a few setbacks but I'm still determined to go through with it and I wanted a little help. Here's what I'm going for: Military (preferably German) large-ring Gew98...
  35. WebleyGreene455

    Mauser Rifle Repair vs Restock

    Hello all, I'm hoping to get started on a custom, or semi-custom, rifle build before too long once I've purchased the donor gun. What I've got in mind is converting a worn-out, inexpensive Mauser G.98 from 9x57mm to 9.3x62mm. Along with the rebarrel and bolt modification, the stock (which I'm...
  36. WebleyGreene455

    Pancontinental hunting list?

    This is my first proper thread, so please bear with me. These are what I've settled on acquiring/building for an all-around hunting "arsenal" that would be at home here in the USA as well as Africa, should I ever manage to get there, and I'd like to have y'all's thoughts on how viable it is...
  37. WebleyGreene455

    New Member from GA

    Howdy all. New guy here from the state of Georgia. Hunting in Africa has been something of a dream for me for a while now; I'm not sure I'll ever get to but I figure there's no time like the present to get started on setting myself up for the opportunity. Or, for that matter, the backup option...
 
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