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jet3534
03-22-2017, 06:55 PM
Gun appears at 5:14 for only a second or less - looks to me like a black powder double barrel or some kind of an Elephant gun. I am thinking the soldier is possibly a Gurkha. I was watching this video on the allied attempt to recapture Burma in WWII and when I saw this gun I thought WTF?
https://youtu.be/Gbyz53ivu3A?t=314
raxar
03-22-2017, 07:11 PM
I think your eyes are bad, the gun at 5:14 is either a p-14 or p-17 enfield.
jet3534
03-22-2017, 08:46 PM
I think your eyes are bad, the gun at 5:14 is either a p-14 or p-17 enfield.

Maybe they are bad but I just looked again and see two external hammers. Maybe what I am seeing is background vegetation. An enfield would make sense.
Schuetzenman
03-22-2017, 09:11 PM
Totally a P14 in .303.
l921428x
03-22-2017, 09:20 PM
What you see are the ears on the rear sight .
jet3534
03-22-2017, 10:10 PM
What you see are the ears on the rear sight .

Thanks.
tank_monkey
03-23-2017, 02:03 PM
I think your eyes are bad, the gun at 5:14 is either a p-14 or p-17 enfield.

THIS. Raxar is correct.
l921428x
03-23-2017, 06:47 PM
Then your eyes are bad also but you're correct that raxar is correct.
tank_monkey
03-23-2017, 07:14 PM
Then your eyes are bad also but you're correct that raxar is correct.

How are MY eyes bad when I said Raxar was correct? :think:
l921428x
03-23-2017, 08:42 PM
Double bbl, black powder, 2 external hammers, rear sight ears. i think op was wondering why he thought
he was seeing 2 hammers. spoke of it in the op and on a post later. Now i on the other hand could
not, in my wildest dreams, have told you what the rifle was but i did tell him what he saw. You agreed with what raxar said and
while several were correct on the rifle, that was not what jet was looking for.

While maybe your eyes are not really bad you all didn't see the question.
tank_monkey
03-24-2017, 01:10 AM
Double bbl, black powder, 2 external hammers, rear sight ears. i think op was wondering why he thought
he was seeing 2 hammers. spoke of it in the op and on a post later. Now i on the other hand could
not, in my wildest dreams, have told you what the rifle was but i did tell him what he saw. You agreed with what raxar said and
while several were correct on the rifle, that was not what jet was looking for.

While maybe your eyes are not really bad you all didn't see the question.

Still don't know what your issue is, but okay. Raxar was correct. The OP's eyes were bad. My guess would have concurred with his regarding it being either a P14 or a 30-06 chambered P17. That's what I said. nothing wrong with my eyesight. :D
l921428x
03-24-2017, 05:04 AM
Yeah and you prolly never will. I was seeing the tree not the forest. As I said jet was asking about seeing
double triggers a 5:14. Nevermind.............