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2022-08-15 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2022-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 .577x470 caliber Napalese Gehendra.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-15 02:32|| 2022-08-15 02:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-15 03:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Thigh holster, fashion appliance.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-15 06:33|| 2022-08-15 06:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-15 07:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-15 08:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-15 08:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-15 08:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Nepalese-Gahendra?

Nice restoration for an old rough-looking rifle.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-08-15 15:56|| 2022-08-15 15:56|| Front Page Top

And if he runs out of ammo....

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-15 16:48|| 2022-08-15 16:48|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-15 16:53|| 2022-08-15 16:53|| Front Page Top

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