Shipbucket

I will post banter in my thread if I feel like it.

Oh, got my Springfield today. Beautiful rifle. Shot 3" groups at 100 yards offhand, not great but pretty good for never having shot it before.

I wish there was a 300 yard range around here!

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VP70M! I hope it is up to Gunbucket standards!

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Nice try but the scale is wrong: the gun should be about 1 inch shorter. Also it's facing the wrong side.

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Darn.

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The star on the grip is kinda meh but the other details are alright.

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Once again, the gun is almost 2 inches longer than it should be. There's definitely something wrong with your scaling technique.

Here are a few tips for you.
The GunBucket scale is 239 pixels per 1 foot (1 foot = 304.8 mm).
Wiki says the QSZ-92 is 190mm long.
So all you need is to convert millimeters into pixels. Here's how I do it:

1. convert mm to feet: 190mm = 0.62335958 feet
2. multiply the result by the GunBucket scale: 0.62335958 * 239 = 148.98294
3. round up the result to the closest integer: 148.98294 -> 149
4. and here you go: the gun should be 149 pixels long.

I hope that helps.

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I own 11 Enfields from a 1916 BSA to an issued 1955 No. 4/2...It's good to see a real gun so beautifully drawn

And one 1903A3...moment of weakness

I wouldn't call it a moment of weakness... it's good to be educated on other platforms so you can compare them in a non-biased way. I feel I can speak from experience about handling and shooting all the war weapons (of WWII) in many different conditions and at many different ranges (from point blank to 500 yards). I can appreciate being an "Enfield collector" but IMO you should have a well-rounded collection!

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Colosseum, I agree.

The great part about collecting Enfields was their price when I started. I had a .303 sporter I used for deer hunting back in Tennessee and I hated that it had been cut up. So when I got a few dollars under my belt I started hitting gun shows. The rifles went for $100-150 depending on condition. Now they are all worth at least three times that. They go to the range pretty regularly and as you can guess are far and away my favorites, although the 1916 BSA has shot corrosive ammo since then and is now a wall hanger. The others shoot great and I have lots of milsurp in hand. I prefer the Enfield action to the Mauser since when you get just a little wear on the bolt it moves very rapidly. Plus, it has a 10-round magazine versus five for the other bolt actions.

I collect other bolt-action weapons, including an 1895 straight-pull Mannlicher in 8mmx56 (kicks like a mule but fun to shoot), an 1891/30 Mosin Nagant (quite accurate and ammo is readily available as the Russians still use it) and now thw M1903A3 Springfield (diito to available ammo). Very accurate weapon once you get the hang of the battle sights.

China - Type 88 Hanyang

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- Victorian Navy - LINK
- ROC/Taiwan - 中華民國空軍 / 陸軍航特部 / 海軍航空兵 - LINK
- RHKAAF / HKGFS - 皇家香港輔助空軍 / 政府飛行服務隊
- Gunbucket - LINK

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