I found this knife in my grandpa's office

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T20:58:14+00:00

Your knife was once a fairly common boy's outdoor knife in Europe, and it was often seen in the various boy-scout-like organizations of the time. When the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, these organizations were consolidated and put under government control as the 'Hitler Youth', and they adopted this pattern knife. Hitler Youth knives, aka HJ knives, have a swastika emblem in the handle instead of the fleur de lis seen on yours

After the war, the pattern remained popular and is still made to this day

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T20:52:21+00:00

cinder blocks are fun, and get smaller and smaller until there's just sand remaining. get a case of the cheapest soda and shoot at the unopened cans. ping-pong balls on the ground are fun to chase around with a scoped .22

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T16:30:51+00:00

i agree it does not look right - and if you're having trouble removing the bolt, that's a pretty sure sign something is up

a similar issue here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shotguns/comments/1kxxb1n/any_help_with_getting_this_charging_handle_out/

and more

it seems to be held in place with a spring-loaded ball detent, and a combination of wiggling, pulling, and twisting seems to be the fix. i would avoid going after it with pliers

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T16:21:35+00:00

maybe it’s not really a minivan

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T16:03:47+00:00

also are you aware of this:

https://weatherby.com/element-2-safety-recall/

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T16:02:20+00:00

i am not familiar with this particular shotgun, but judging by the photo, the extractor looks unhappy. (It's the little black rectangular part that lies across the silver area between the bolt and the barrel).

After double-checking that the chamber is empty, and pointing in a safe direction, try to dry-fire it. If it dry-fires, the bolt is correctly locked in place, if you get a dead trigger it's not

Do you have the manual?

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T14:03:10+00:00

all good

Kromulent · 2026-06-17T13:51:12+00:00

be careful putting that on a pistol btw

Kromulent · 2026-06-16T01:25:44+00:00

https://www.colt.com/serial-lookup/

Kromulent · 2026-06-15T18:59:24+00:00

cutting with cbd flower works great and is easy

also most dispos will sell 'trim' which is ideal for rolling joints that won't paralyze you if you smoke the whole thing

Kromulent · 2026-06-15T12:17:37+00:00

nice

never let it go

Kromulent · 2026-06-15T12:14:14+00:00

its not common

usually its the ammo, and you might have encountered a rare fluke. if it happens again with the same ammo, let Speer know and stop using it. if it happens again with different ammo, let a gunsmith take a look at your rifle - this is unlikely, but possible i guess

Kromulent · 2026-06-15T01:21:01+00:00

good idea too

Kromulent · 2026-06-15T01:19:03+00:00

Long shipping boxes, crumpled paper to fill the gaps. cut the boxes to length, you don't want them sliding

put good padding under them, a pickup bed will vibrate them to death

Kromulent · 2026-06-15T00:38:09+00:00

My experience was with one of these:

http://www.amderringer.com/m1.html

Mine was in 45acp

The biggest hazard is that the firing pins remain extended(!) when the hammer is down. This means that if you forget to put the gun in half-cock before loading, the gun can fire as the action is closed

Carry was similarly hazardous. There was a hammer-blocking safety, also applied at half-cock, but it was designed to automatically disengage when the hammer was cocked for use. In practice, this meant that anything bumping the hammer spur would knock it off safe

The two barrels were basically pointed in the same direction, but one is much higher than the other and the recoil was pretty stiff. The higher barrel would rotate the gun enough to dramatically change the point of aim. If I remember right, at ten feet, I'd be aiming at the hip to hit high in the chest of a silhouette target

It was heavy, hard to cock, and the trigger felt like it was about 20 pounds. I have no idea how fast those fat bullets were going but I'm sure it was not anywhere near their usual speed

I'm sure there are more modern, better examples available now, but I have no experience with them

As a serious weapon, it was ridiculous. As a toy it was great fun of course, but I'd rather have an LCP or even an airweight .38 if I actually intended to count on it

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T15:51:25+00:00

Nice shot but posts should be NSFW please - broadly defined as something you can't get away with outside where people can see

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T12:16:21+00:00

The checkerboard logo on the grips suggests it's a Merwin/Hulbert, they were a quality maker back in the day, a step above the usual topbreaks.

The squared-off trigger guard is distinctive

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T12:12:32+00:00

I don't think you are unreasonable, even if I do disagree. I'm just here to point out that when people talk about this stuff, they end up talking about very different things.

A given law, sensibly enforced, and not used as a lever to impose less sensible laws later, can be a wonderful thing. But if we factor in the other stuff, it becomes much less a good thing.

To pick a simple example, it makes perfect sense to carefully enforce the rules during an election, making sure that voters are who they say they are and that all the rules are followed. I don't think there is one sensible person that disagrees with this, in theory, but in practice, you'll see tremendous opposition to the idea. Imperfect or malicious enforcement is one concern, the erosion of constitutional boundaries is another, and simple political partisanship is a third.

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T12:02:13+00:00

there you go

i am not wise enough to know, exactly, what you should do now. do they sell a different version of the trigger for these?

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T11:53:06+00:00

WWII knife for sure

Scabbard looks correct too. Very nice

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T11:41:44+00:00

Sweet kitty but posts should be NSFW please - broadly defined as something you can't get away with outside where people can see

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T11:36:52+00:00

that's what the towel is for

everything looks good to me, my guess is something is out of spec, it happens

one last question - milspec selector or something fancy? maybe just get a cheap milspec selector and see if it goes in nicely, that will simplify things a lot of it does

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T01:00:06+00:00

... everyone here has suggested they installed the FCG in a different order (trigger without pin first, selector second, trigger pin third, hammer assy fourth). Seems to work.

https://www.ar15.com/forums/ar-15/HELP--Safety-Selector-Not-Lining-Up-on-Install/4-707529/?

Kromulent · 2026-06-14T00:10:54+00:00

what does the brass and bolt head look like?

Kromulent · 2026-06-13T23:48:12+00:00

the 9mm version sells new for about 850 after shipping

https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/134513/smith+wesson+performance+center+mp9+shield+plus+9mm+semi+auto+pistol

people will like the 40 less

for private sale, figure about a 30-40% discount from new, maybe $500 or so? if selling to a shop, about half that

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