To add a bit, the cups are probably still available from Springfield Sporters. I paid $10. They came from India and were part of the martini device used on armoured vehicles. Springfield Sporters got burned on the deal as when they arrived, the martini actions turned out to be of new stamped steel manufacture that were not reworkable to a firearm. The Feds stepped in and said the actions with three inch??? barrels were illegal short barrelled rifles and had to be destroyed. After the dust settled, all they had left were the cups. I got to handle an action prior to distruction and it would not have made a decent gun.
A cup, a junk gun and some work can lead to untold profits. Not only Skunks smell.
Never heard of the martini type actions you speak of. If they even resembled the old Martini Henery actions they might have been usable for construction of blank firing prop rifles.
I did a quick check of the images and while they are full of artifacts I can't really spot a photoshop pattern to them.
I can download then into one of my editors and do a closer examination.
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Could that discharger be a line throwing set up?
The scoped rifle, the more I look at it, seems like it might be a photo of a work in progress.
The mount doesn't look like its engaged and a non adjustable scope like that may have been used by the fellow trying to regulate the mount by making any adjustments necessary to the mounting so that the fixed reticle would line up with the bore, then an adjustable scope of the same tube diameter could be exchanged for it and be easier to zero in.
I'm not up on these scopes, but saw some advertised that had no post but a fixed horizon wire.
A friend had a damaged scope and mount, the horizon wire was loose at one end but the post still worked, and those scopes similar to the one above that I saw advertised were recommended as a source of parts to repair the regular sniper scope.
Don't know if that would work or not.
I've cleaned, repaired, or rebuilt a few scopes and telescopes and binoculars over the years, so the friend asked me to look around for replacement parts, but that was long ago. My hands aren't up to that sort of fine detail work these days.
These may be stuff someone found among a deceased owners effects, with no explanation of what they are or where they came from.
In recent years several people have brought this sort of find over.
Not long ago a fellow brought over a pistol he'd found on the table next to his brother in law's corpse. He'd at first believed the man had committed suicide and on the spur of the moment pocketed the pistol to protect the family, not at all a smart idea but he was in a very disoriented state of mind at finding a corpse. Turned out the brother in law had a heart attack while examining or preparing to clean the antique, which hadn't been fired in decades, so it never became an issue. On my advice he gave the pistol to his wife to see it got back where it was supposed to be.
Had it been a crime scene he could have been in a world of trouble for even touching the pistol. But people don't always think straight when faced with a dead body out of the blue.
