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Time for a Whatziss!

By The Armorer on April 19, 2007 | | Comments (29)

It's Patriot Day - let's see who knows their firearms parts...

So, whatziss?

This is reader-submitted by a young deployed Marine who hangs at the Castle when the bandwidth allows. The focus isn't the best, but doesn't really detract that much. Give the guy a break - he's deployed!

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By BillT on April 19, 2007 9:17 AM
The carrying handle-cum-soap dispenser for BCR's Death Ray.
 
By Mike Lehnherr on April 19, 2007 9:29 AM
Today is my 27th wedding anniversary (okay - with an asterisk). We've become accustomed to having our anniversary week surrounded by the horrific acts of cowards - OKC bombing, Columbine, and now this. One can't help but wonder what's going on in the "heavenlies". "Happy" Anniversary. ML
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 19, 2007 9:57 AM
Um, I'm guessing wrong post, Mike - but, Happy Anniversary(*)!
 
By Were-Kitty on April 19, 2007 10:00 AM
As the old Wendy's commercial used to say about other restaurants' chicken nuggets... "parts is parts, right?" Using that logic, I'd say it's a whoozywhatzis scopamatic.
 
By MajMike on April 19, 2007 10:14 AM
tough to tell w/o a pink quilt behind it for scale, but i would say it appears to be a board from a tree that was at least 26 years old when it was cut down. tight grain pattern in the bolus at upper right quadrant indicates a couple of relatively dry seasons.
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 19, 2007 10:16 AM
Heh. 10,000 stand-ups out of work and youse guys are auditioning!
 
By Pogue on April 19, 2007 11:28 AM
It looks maddeningly familiar - an operating rod/bolt assembly with kind of a warsaw pac flavor - lot's of milling. That's not from an RPD, is it?
   
By Oldloadr on April 19, 2007 1:49 PM
OK, I don't know the nimenclature on this, but I think it's the part of the M-2 just forward of the butterfly trigger...
 
By MajMike on April 19, 2007 1:54 PM
if it's from a M2, then i would need to turn out the lights and drop it on my foot to get a positive ID.
 
By Oldloadr on April 19, 2007 1:55 PM
nomenclature - in a hurry should have used spell-check... sorry Maggie :(
 
By Biggame223 on April 19, 2007 4:02 PM
PKM carrier group
 
By Sigivald on April 19, 2007 5:58 PM
All I can tell is that it's definitely a bolt-lookin' thing and thus the rest is presumably a carrier. Not something I've ever field-stripped, but that's not saying anything.
 
By Blackhawk on April 19, 2007 8:11 PM
AF Sis: 'field stripped' usually refers to disassembling a weapon in the field. Just thought I'd clear that up. Is this off of a recoilless rifle? Just a swag... Or it could be a random war-trophy from Akmed's Souvenirs.
 
By AFSister on April 19, 2007 9:10 PM
damn. and here I thought it meant this (insert picture of topless gorgeous gun-toting wimmins that i can't find right now, but i'm sure Bill and John are VERY familiar with).
 
By Richard on April 19, 2007 10:40 PM
I'll take a shot(sic), Feed bolt for lets say...30mm anti-aircraft...(crystal ball) Russkie type 1950" Just too much machining to be anything but cold-war red. Not bad for a friggin corpsman? but then again.... Best richard
 
By BillT on April 19, 2007 10:56 PM
For the newbies, AFSis is referring to the Third Squad, First Platoon, Delta Company, Third Battalion of the Sugar Buttons Brigade. Not particularly work safe, especially if you work with -- or for -- GFWs.
 
By sandman6actual on April 20, 2007 12:03 AM
"Oooooh, ooooooh, Mistuh Kottuh, Mistuh Kottuh, I knows dis one!!!" (*end really bad John Travolta impersonation*) But I'm ineligible, as I'm the "young" (*28*) Marine referred to.
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 20, 2007 6:43 AM
Sandman, in *this* crowd, yer young. I'd been wearing a uniform for 4 years when you were born, Dusty about the same. Since Bill is well-known to have given God the recipe for mud, if we accept Bishop Ussher's dating of the world, Bill had been in uniform circa 6 millennia (give or a take a century or two for breaks between enlistments) when you were born. Bill is *auld*. Oddly enough, of the three, he was the first to join and last to retire, too.
 
By Oldloadr on April 20, 2007 6:54 AM
Heh, I was a SSgt (E-5) with a year in grade when Sandman was born, of course that is nothing compared to BillT. (LOL)
 
By MajMike on April 20, 2007 8:05 AM
i certainly hope it isn't a carrier group from the People's Kollective of Manchu. that would be the last thing we need: blue water naval action from those inscrutable bastages!
 
By Maggie on April 20, 2007 10:42 AM
I will not involve myself with this undignified discussion regarding age. I will not say what I was doing the year Sandman was born. OldLoader - The spell check thing was aimed at Ry. But it's good to fear me anyway. I am a fan of Machiavelli. Blackhawk - You suck the fun out of everything. You could have let us run with it for a bit.
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 20, 2007 11:05 AM
Snerk. Watch your back, 'Hawk.
 
By AFSister on April 20, 2007 1:42 PM
Yep! That's the picture, Bill! I knew you'd have it... hehe
 
By BillT on April 20, 2007 5:47 PM
I knew you'd have it... Yeah, still *got* it after all these years. Just don't *get* it as much. In *any* interpretation...
 
By Maggie on April 20, 2007 6:06 PM
Just don't *get* it as much
. God!!! I hope I never *get* that old!
 
By Blackhawk on April 20, 2007 7:56 PM
Hmmm...how to address Maggie... What have I lurned in the year or so I've lurked here: Maggie is a Princess. Maggie has sumtin to do with Boston. Maggie is crabby. And I believe she has sumtin to do with the moat. Hawks fly over moats....but is that moat AAA capable? So... Quick trip to Wal Mart (sorry, only thing open on short notice). Gather flowers, chocolates, card with sweet nuthins...and mace. Durn background checks... Don body armor. Mount trusty steed. Approach cautiously. (Clear throat)...”Let everyone in the world halt, unless the entire world acknowledges that nowhere on earth is there a damsel more beautiful than the Empress of La Moata, she who has no equal, Princesa Malhumorada, Maggie”. Howl at the moon... Drop drawers... Pop flowers and chocos like chaff... Escape and evade, escape and evade, escape and evade...man this armor chafes.
 
By AFSister on April 20, 2007 8:57 PM
LOLOLOLOLOL.... nice, Blackhawk... verrrr nice. oh, and Bill darlin'.... I'm sure we could find plenty for you. durn that KtLW..!
 
By Maggie on April 21, 2007 10:13 AM
I had to think about the cranky part.....but I guess you're ok.
 
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