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- 2007
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- 4.0 V6
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- 4.0L SOHC
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- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 2WD
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- I need more sleep.
Today I was upstairs at the ranch helping out with the computer up there. And the 2 cats were going crazy. They ran under the bed and I looked under it to see what they were doing. I noticed a rifle sitting there, it looked very old so I pulled it out and low and behold it was an old rifle. I went down to ask my grandpa what it was and he told me it was a 1888 Chinese mauser and said I could have it. On some research I found it was a Hanyang Type 88, a copy of the Gewehr 88 made by the Germans. It fires the 7.92x57 cartridge out of an 5 round en-block clip. Now I'll throw some pictures up tomorrow since it's late, but this thing is in rough shape. Its not really rusty but it's old. Everything works on it, the firing pin and the springs, and the internals look decent. It's pretty gunked up but I can clean it up nice. I would really like to shoot this, I've been reading around and plenty of people have said its junk and don't shoot it. And its old and dangerous. But I believe, recently I pulled out that old Arisaka and it looked like junk, but it fired and functioned just fine. But we will see, nonetheless its still cool, and is over 100 years old. It's also possible it takes the rimmed 8x57, but I think I'll put a round in and see how well it fits and cycles.
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