Nitpicky Question About The Bag

[Walt Cakebread]

Which Carcano? Yours?

Why argue and make a bigger fool of yourself?.... When you can go to any gun shop and look at the old WWII military rifles....NONE of them have "ROUGH" wooden stocks....None of them have highly polished stocks ( because that surface would reflect sunlight and that could spell disaster for the soldier carrying the weapon.)
 

[Martin Weidmann]

Why argue and make a bigger fool of yourself?.... When you can go to any gun shop and look at the old WWII military rifles....NONE of them have "ROUGH" wooden stocks....None of them have highly polished stocks ( because that surface would reflect sunlight and that could spell disaster for the soldier carrying the weapon.)
 

When you can go to any gun shop and look at the old WWII military rifles

You don't really expect that Chapman would do some actual research, do you?

[Walt Cakebread]

When you can go to any gun shop and look at the old WWII military rifles

You don't really expect that Chapman would do some actual research, do you?

No....That was silly of me.    But I felt compelled to refute the statement that the stock of the carcano was ROUGH wood.....  when in fact it is SMOOTH.

[Walt Cakebread]

It's sad to think that poor little Hungarian boy had to take the rap.

-- MWT   

It's sad to think that poor little Hungarian American boy ( Who fancied himself to be a budding Herb Phibrick , and thought that he was working undercover for the FBI)  had to take the rap.

[Walt Cakebread]

But that is overruled by advanced conjecture, expert guesswork and professional speculation.

You forgot pompous arrogance...... which allows the elitist to believe that he is far superior to the average person.....which LBJ called piss ants. 

[Walt Cakebread]

Nothing to discuss. They are undated. Period.

 

They are undated....But that doesn't prevent us from determining when the original inventory list (Document "A") was created..... As a matter of fact it is rather easy to determine when the Original evidence list was created by comparing the original List "A" with the photo copy "B" which is altered.

[Bill Chapman]

I own several....And I've seen hundreds....

What's important is what you can do with these rifles that actually contributes in a real way to the forum.

Meanwhile, do you have an MC stock you can sell me? (Just the stock; the 34.8" thing). I'm serious. I need one for the next stage of a project I'm working on.

And just wiping the stock would be more than sufficient to smudge/smear fingerprints.

And as far as that goes, even just handling the rifle would cause overlaps, yielding smudged/smeared areas one would think.  Authorities on the subject say there's about a 5% chance of finding usable prints on a murder weapon anyway.