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| Can you guess the make of the rifle? |
| 2022-08-15 |
| Took me until five minutes before I remembered. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-15 16:53 |
| #9 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-15 16:48 |
| #8 Nepalese-Gahendra? Nice restoration for an old rough-looking rifle. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-08-15 15:56 |
| #7 So, a Martini-Henry. For me, the giveaway was watching the restorer cycle the action Same here, one of my all-time favorite movies is Zulu(1964). |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-15 08:55 |
| #6 Much like yourself, my memory is a random collection of unrelated diddle-facts... this wasn't one of them.... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-08-15 08:45 |
| #5 Yes, essentially the same weapon, just locally manufactured. I stumbled around for quite a while on that on. The tiny writing on the cocking lever was the key. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-15 08:35 |
| #4 #1 .577x470 caliber Napalese Gehendra. So, a Martini-Henry. For me, the giveaway was watching the restorer cycle the action |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-08-15 07:25 |
| #3 Thigh holster, fashion appliance. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-15 06:33 |
| #2 Gen. Gahendra Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana liked to invent stuff. He was an artificer and armourer too. He basically reverse engineered and altered stuff from all over the world to suit his army's style of fighting, like importing cars and modding them into technicals, tinkering with the design of machine guns, etc. He took apart a British Martini-Henry Mark II, one of the commonest rifles around at the time and made this one. In Nepal it's also still called the Gahendra-Martini. This is basically |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-15 03:41 |
| #1 .577x470 caliber Napalese Gehendra. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-15 02:32 |