mawkie
C&R Whisperer
Thanks! I kept getting up and going to the rack to check this puppy out because I couldn't wrap my head around the difference in barrel length. I knew it was correct, no Bubba product, but had never heard of such a critter.
Now it seems that this was a prototype and we'll probably never know how many were produced or survived. I've never seen one in a photo or the flesh and nobody else up on Gun Boards has one.
I checked out the inventory of some European museums but none of them have one either. Considering that there are about fifteen M27 rifles accounted for in the US out of an estimated 1,200 produced there's a very good chance this could be the sole surviving example of the mousqueton version. Uber rare and probably the find of my lifetime.
Now it seems that this was a prototype and we'll probably never know how many were produced or survived. I've never seen one in a photo or the flesh and nobody else up on Gun Boards has one.
I checked out the inventory of some European museums but none of them have one either. Considering that there are about fifteen M27 rifles accounted for in the US out of an estimated 1,200 produced there's a very good chance this could be the sole surviving example of the mousqueton version. Uber rare and probably the find of my lifetime.