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If those Colt grips are original and uncracked, that's a heck of a deal.

If you ever find yourself in Hendersonville, let me know. I'd be more than happy to show it off

The one that gets me is the .30 Carbine Mann Accuracy Device, because it's also built on a 03A3 action.. which just seems weird to me

If you'd be willing to ship, I'll take them. I've got a parts kit and a semi-auto receiver that I'm going to build out. Could use more than the 2 mags the kit came with. I also get that I'm a new user, so if you don't want to sell to me I get it. Though, I can assure you that I'm in Hendersonville and not Lagos, Nigeria

So I got into collecting C&R stuff in the late 90s. Not quite the good-good old days, but there was still plenty of cheap surplus on the market. Enfields were 100 bucks. I once scored a Hungarian M44 for 30 bucks as an 'add-on' when making a SOG order. There were also still a lot of oddball firearms floating around at that time and this is one of them. The Mann Accuracy device was designed to help test ammo accuracy. The device was fitted into a tube or a v rest (also known as a Mann rest). Ammo to be tested off the line was then loaded and fired. Provided the correct number of rounds hit the fixed target down range, the batch was considered good to go. Over the years these were produced in '06, 7.62x51, .30 Carbine, and 5.56mm. They even made them in some non-military cartridges like .22 Hornet. A lot of them 'went home' with their owners and they largely vanished from the market for a spell. The CMP came up with a bunch at one point in .30-06 (which this one is) and I was quick enough to grab one. If you search around for these, you'll find some folks have leveraged that super heavy barrel to turn them into target rifles. I'm curious if anyone else has one, especially if it's in a different caliber.

I'm also new here and also a Ross MkII owner as well. I ended up getting a beautiful example that also came with the bayonet and it's frog. There's US ordnance markings on mine indicating that it was one of the rifles that was sent down from Canada to the US Army for training purposes. I never quite understood the logic. Imagine being a US soldier in WWI. You've spent weeks being trained on the straight pull action of the Ross only to land in France and be handed a Springfield 1903 rifle

Howdy folks, I actually joined this site over a year ago and then completely forgot that I did. I moved here 2+ years ago from Washington state. After spending 20+ years fighting the good fight for the 2a in WA, my wife and I threw in the towel and headed east. We still had plenty of fight left in us, but it became pretty apparent that we were in the minority. I'm a C&R collector with a penchant for .32ACP pocket pistols, British/Commonwealth firearms, and inert ordnance. I also enjoy long range rifle shooting and 3-gun. I'm a member of the Tennessee Military Collectors Association and the Ohio Valley Military Society. Outside of that I like offroading, fishing, BBQing, and weird microelectronics projects. I joke that I'm a high-tech redneck. Just happy to be here