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I’ve done what amounted to a duffle cut repair on a buds Krag sporter, wasn’t that hard but don’t know about mausers. I’ve remilitarized two sporter 1903s too. Good BAMM rifles. We’re doing a BAM match in November I believe. Depending on the weather I’ll either shoot Krags in my Spanish American uniform or if it’s cold I’ll wear my Punitive Expedition outfit as it has a tunic and shoot these.

Or try a nickel 1911. Cimarron makes a nice one.

I did my own 6 shell conversions on my marlins and winchesters by trimming springs and shortening followers depending on what was bottoming out.

I use my campaign hat with googles if I’m in my Punitive Expedition tunic. Use a 1911 leather drop cavalry holster and web gear pouches on a web belt.

Don’t get one from Dirty Billys in Gettysburg. Hard place to do by mail bizness with. I eventually got a nice Span Am hat that fit after 2 that were the wrong size. Drove up there from the Thurmont regional to get measured. Still have it. I like the DI Montana peak better.

He’s still working. Call The Cowboy Shop. Last month he swapped barrels on my 45 colt uberti 1873 and slicked it up. Very fast turnaround too.

Certainly doesn’t look anything like an 1897 Winchester trenchgun. Guessing the bs name was just clickbait to get you to at least look. It surely wouldn’t fool anyone with good eyesight and a little knowledge of military history.

Bought one last year and have used it in several club WB/cas shoots with no issues. Bigger sights than my heinz Colt 1911 with the original 1911 slide. I shoot duelist.

Shot my Auto Ordnance 1911 today at our WB/CAS match. Nothing fancy, a good solid 1911, shot it duelist, fed 200 gr long nosed swc loads perfectly. Came in second overall [out of 15] with 5 misses but in all honesty there were a lot of rifle problems for some of the other shooters. A little over half were cowboys. We had a good time. BAMM/CAS next month.

Much better. The hat makes the man.

Seriously you might want to try a Zoot Suit Shoot. Gangsters carried 1911s, 1897s and Thompsons. There’s a Zoot Shooters sub forum at Cascity, check it out. We do a 2 inch snubnose cas match at ECSASS where a DA snubnose is shot along with our main match guns for 3 stages. I put on pinstripes, my fedora and a nickel 1911. Maybe WB needs to broaden its palette and evolve to attract some new shooters. Same thing sass needs to do. I have photos but your forum won’t let me post them.

FYI, Chinese screws are metric. Had a shell stop screw come out of my Norinco ‘97. Finally found a metric replacement, the corresponding winchester screw was a hair too small.

Isn’t the flagged carrier supposed to aid in feeding or is that negated with the op’s gun being a 3 inch goose gun?

We do simultaneous monthly WB/Cowboy shoots with no problems with either regimen. We all use the same steel, same courses of fire [first 10 pistol] with the only difference being WB will have 5-10/stage more rds to fire. We will have one or two stages where we advance downrange to the rifle targets to engage with those extra pistol rds. WB also load their sg’s at the loading table. As a WASA club we allow self loaders at our monthly shoots, I’ve shot my 9mm Astra, a bud shot his Luger, another a C96, shot one match with my Webley Fosbery and a MkVI . It’s supposed to be for fun. Next month I’ll don my RE tunic, pith helmet and shoot 2 Webleys and a 1866 musket with fixed bayonets on the anniversary of Rorkes Drift.

I would also agree with Doc and don’t see a dif between Norinco putting a heat shield on a riot gun or a shooter doing it. Just about every ‘97 or M12 riotgun in use in cas is a modded field gun. None are stamped with flaming bombs or US. So what.