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A WAG contest.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:40 am
by Mossdancer
Hi;
No prizes, no points, no prestige just try to be right. I will give the answer in a few days. Take a guess or try to figure it out.
What year was the Christmas depicted in these photo's celebrated. There are a couple of clues.
wb
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:05 am
by jonet143
english band leader ray noble played during the thirties.
rca victor introduced the d-22 in 1935, i think.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:11 am
by El Lobo
I'm going with 1929.
Bill
Sorry...typo
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:20 am
by Hukk
jonet143 wrote:english band leader ray noble played during the thirties.
rca victor introduced the d-22 in 1935, i think.
I'll go with 1935 for the RCA D-22.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:13 am
by MITCH RAPP
Put me down for 1945
Wag
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:05 am
by Mossdancer
Great investigative skills displayed by Jonet and Hukk;
It was from a Christmas issue National Geographic 1935.
Ready for the next.
What is this a breakdown picture of. There is one glaring clue.
If you want go ahead and make a guess what the document is out of.
wb
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:50 am
by jonet143
mauser action. have no idea as to what publication.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:13 pm
by Hukk
Mauser Action, publication well, I'd have to guess, either Gun World or American Rifleman.
wag
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:18 pm
by Mossdancer
Check the manual pull back cocking mechanism. Its not mauser.
wb
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:37 pm
by SFC ADP
Guessing an M1903 Springfield,
Photo from Military Manual
Wag
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:00 pm
by Mossdancer
Great ID Adam. The book was close also. It was from the 1940 Bluejackets manual.
wb
how about this hog
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:40 pm
by Mossdancer
Give it a go. Check out that price.
wb
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:32 am
by jonet143
1966.
Wag
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:12 am
by Mossdancer
Johnnie;
You definitely have as much spare time as I do.Popular Mechanics
wb
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:33 am
by justold52
I really had one of these. It was a BLAST, untill I got my 305 scrambler.
Then to the dirt track and time to RACE.
