ammo Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Where is a good place to buy parts for a 1918 BAR? Also who has nice mags? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leid Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Which parts are you looking for, just shooting spares? Do you want blued or parked mags? NIW or just good shooters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratemaker Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 I'd love to find a good supplier of blued mags. The parkerized ones don't seem to go in/out of my gun as smoothly. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leid Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 Parked mags are not as smooth to insert because of the rougher texture of the finish, but they require little care. The blued mags look much better with a blued BAR, but you have to remove the fingerprints. Blued mags are available: used-NIW. Which grade do you want? Carey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammo Posted December 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Who has NIW blued mags? When would they have been made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leid Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Hi ammo, I thought I would have a few NOS or NIW blued mags left over to share. But I could only find enough to fill the BAR pouches and put one in the BAR. Could not even find the same manufacturer for all the mags I needed: some are Seymour and some are the "H" marked mags in the red celophane wrapping that no one seems to know anything about. And I saw no NOS or NIW blued BAR mags at the SAR show. Kent Lomont had a couple of vg-exc blued mags for $40 each and that was it. Not a good sign at all! I am trying to buy a nice BAR pouch with "H" marked blued mags still in the red celophane. The problem is I don't know what is inside the red celophane wrapping. They could be used mags that were repackaged. All the mags made in WW1 were blued. But some of the mags issued during WW2 were leftover blued mags from WW1. So a mag can be marked 1918A2 and still be a blued mag. The Seymour mag pictured in "Rock in a Hard Place" on p312 fig.440 is one of those blued mags. I have several of this type still in the original wrapper. Carey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammo Posted January 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 I am looking for a 1918 spare parts "survival kit" so if something breaks at an event I can get it back up and running. I don't know what generally breaks extractors etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkyardslug Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Item # BAR004 BAR Ordnance Support Kit, $59.50 or Ohio Ornance 1918a3 support kit Just get OO to substatute a real BAR firing pin for the Semi firing pin. George WWII BAR Man Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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