Breechldrs Carbines for viewing

[Patio]

For your Saturday morning viewing pleasure. Hope you enjoy.

 

[UCVRelics]

Nice grouping. Love the S&H naval carbine.

 

[captaindrew]

Nice collection! What is the 4th one down?

 

[Patio]

Nice grouping. Love the S&H naval carbine.

Thank you. Only one of the group that I haven't shot.

 

[Patio]

Nice collection! What is the 4th one down?

2nd model Merrill.

 

[JOHN42768]

Nice assortment

 

[captaindrew]

2nd model Merrill.

Thanks, I really like the lines of that one and wasn't familiar with it, nice piece.

 

[Patio]

Thanks, I really like the lines of that one and wasn't familiar with it, nice piece.

 

[captaindrew]

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Very nice, thanks for the extra pics

 

[scooter748driver]

Nice collection. My first one was a Smith.

 

[504PIR]

My first was a Smith as well. Next thing I knew………..

 

[plymouthairrifle]

Patio. I sure wish my Merrill was this nice!!!

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

My first was a Smith as well. Next thing I knew………..View attachment 552132View attachment 552133

Admit it - as nice as firearms are - the woobie is the one thing in the photo you wouldn't part with!

 

[R. Porter]

Admit it - as nice as firearms are - the woobie is the one thing in the photo you wouldn't part with!

I was unfamiliar with the term, "woobie", so I had to look it up. I found out that it is a term applied to an object that is used for its comforting characteristics. That means you were referring to the bottle of Old Grandad sitting in the gun cabinet in the background; which I found a little confusing since there is also a Model 1913 Patton Saber and a Model 1860 U.S. Light Cavalry Saber in the background that I would consider as woobies before the Old Grandad or that other bottle hiding on the other side of the cabinet.

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

I was unfamiliar with the term, "woobie", so I had to look it up. I found out that it is a term applied to an object that is used for its comforting characteristics. That means you were referring to the bottle of Old Grandad sitting in the gun cabinet in the background; which I found a little confusing since there is also a Model 1913 Patton Saber and a Model 1860 U.S. Light Cavalry Saber in the background that I would consider as woobies before the Old Grandad or that other bottle hiding on the other side of the cabinet.

Close - 'woobie' is military vernacular for the poncho liner - used as a field expedient blanket.

You'd be hard pressed to find a GI that would part with his woobie - typically, it followed him through every field problem, deployment, etc.

Arguably the greatest piece of military issue ever implemented, along with the 'smokers jacket' (field jacket liner) the 'commando' or 'jeep' sweater (GI brown wool sweater) and the ALICE buttpack, in my opinion.

 

[vmicraig]

Admit it - as nice as firearms are - the woobie is the one thing in the photo you wouldn't part with

Let's admit facts - it's poncho liner, not woobie. Pffft Army.
USMC retired!

Big carbine nerd, by the way. Nice collection

 

[MRB1863]

Very nice assortment!

 

[R. Porter]

Let's admit facts - it's poncho liner, not woobie. Pffft Army.
USMC retired!

Big carbine nerd, by the way. Nice collection

When I was in Scouts there wasn't a poncho liner. The official Boy Scout poncho was a thin rubber-like sheet that tore easily so serious scouts got a Korean War vintage army surplus rubberized canvas one that didn't breathe. Water would condense on the inside surface making you just as wet as if you had no poncho at all. We knew nothing of woobies.

 

[vmicraig]

When I was in Scouts there wasn't a poncho liner. The official Boy Scout poncho was a thin rubber-like sheet that tore easily so serious scouts got a Korean War vintage army surplus rubberized canvas one that didn't breathe. Water would condense on the inside surface making you just as wet as if you had no poncho at all. We knew nothing of woobies.

Perhaps some lucky scouts with veteran fathers have used them, but certainly as blankets and not as poncho liners. The vernacular is an Army vs Marine thing and the Army still refers to it as a woobie based on a the name of a child's security blanket from a 1983 movie. We expect cutesy names from the Army, but the men of the Marine Corps simply refer to it by its nomenclature - a poncho liner. No need for nicknames in the Corps....Just sayin'. Allegedly first issued in the late 60's, I've yet to meet anyone from the Nam era or even the mid-late 70's who had one, but maybe someone on our forum had one back then? They were indeed an issue item in '83 when I first went in and are still issued (and sold) today, although nobody uses it as a Poncho liner, because nobody really ever used the poncho except as a makeshift lean-to, a waterproof cover over over top of your canvas shelter half (no longer issued) or a ground cover under your sleeping bag.

Getting back to carbines.....here's a carbine pop quiz for carbineaholics....what carbine is this? US Surcharge just in front of the patchbox. Another near to toe on the left side. HINT: it has an obturator. Can you identify this rare-version carbine based only on that info? Sorry plymouthairrifle you are not allowed to answer

 

[vmicraig]

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Good Looking Merrill. 14,0000+ fielded, yet it received more complaints than praise from the field.