Something different: The Barong

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Very nice Barongs Nepki and Wayne (kronckew). Your Philippine blades seem to lean more toward the fighting weapon side of the Barong design than the tool part. No wonder the Moro and others were feared like the Gurkha and "the world's best slashing knife" (thanks knifekateer).
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Great painting. Love seeing Colt 1911s, Springfield 1903s, Mausers, and spanish armor juxtaposed with native weaponry and dress.

ive long wondered if the American falling back just left of center fell to one of the rifle armed Moros or the one with the Barong.

thats a hell of a reach to get past an 18 inch bayonet and 1903 with any bladed weapon.

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Very nice Barongs Nepki and Wayne (kronckew). Your Philippine blades seem to lean more toward the fighting weapon side of the Barong design than the tool part. No wonder the Moro and others were feared like the Gurkha and "the world's best slashing knife" (thanks knifekateer).
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more artistic licence: the colt 1911 was not issued during the moro rebellion. it was approved march 29, 1911 by the army, the rebellion ended in dec of 1913 before they reached the troops. the .45 acp was available for civilians however, and the colt 1905 auto was available for private purchase, so some of those may have been used by the one fortunate enough to have their family send them one. the auto in the painting is thus an '05 not an '11 - note also the 1911A1 didn't come along for a few years after the 1911 acceptance (in 1924) as they did a bit of bug fixin' in-between. the painting is of the very last battle at bud bagsak in 1913 where the americans were led from the front personally by pershing, with him dodging thrown spears and barongs.

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Excellent facts and knowledge of the great Colt 45 (semi) Automatic pistol. Just think that could have been a Luger in the picture.
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"The DWM Model 1900 American Eagle Luger (.30 cal. Luger) manufactured by DWM in 1901 as part of an order for 1000 pistols by the Army for troop tests with the U.S. Cavalry. The Luger passed all of the tests but was rejected due to its small caliber. Fifty more pistols were submitted in 9mm cal. for Trials in 1904 but again the caliber was deemed unacceptable as too small."

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In 1907 the Luger pistol was re-designed to shoot the required .45 caliber cartridge. Georg Luger (American by birth), worked really hard on this re-design, he felt that if the Luger pistol was adopted it would be a great honor from his home country.

I love the 1911 but if the US Army had picked the Luger that would have been something.
 
the .45 acp luger is a holy grail of collectors. there were very few made, so finding one would make your day. i'm surprised no one has made a replica yet. it'd be really cool to own one. even the 9mm ones are outrageously expensive now. i almost bought a cased 9mm naval luger in 1970 for a couple of hundred dollars in san diego (it had a couple of mismatched part no.s) while i was there on a navy training course (in turbine engine maintenance). sadly i found it 4 days before i was to leave for alaska, and it would have taken 5 days to go thru the paperwork bullpoo.

In 1906 and 1907, the US Army held trials for a large-caliber semi-automatic. DWM provided two sample Luger pistols chambered in .45 ACP for testing, with serial numbers 1 and 2. The fate of serial number 1 is unknown, as it was not returned. The serial number 2 Luger .45 passed the tests, and survived to be traded among collectors. Its rarity gives its value of around $1 million US dollars at the time the "Million Dollar Guns" episode of History Channel's "Tales of the Gun" was filmed, recheck by Guns & Ammo as of 1994.

At least two pistols were manufactured later for possible commercial or military sales, and one is exhibited at the Norton Gallery, in Shreveport, Louisiana. The other was sold in 2010 and remains in a private collection. After initial trials, DWM, Savage, and Colt were asked to provide further samples for evaluation. DWM withdrew for reasons that are still debated, though the Army did place an order for 200 more samples. A single .45 Luger carbine is also known to exist.
 
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"I'm surprised no one has made a replica yet" I agree with you Wayne. I think the Luger is a classic and great gun like the 1911 which as you know is copied by everyone and his brother. Sorry you missed that buy before getting up here to Alaska.
Looks like the .45 caliber Luger was only made for evaluations so we won't see any of those.
I'll check out "Million Dollar Guns" episode on the History Channel. Thanks for the tip. I remember AIM Surplus rifles and handguns had some $500 to $700 USD Lugers for sale about 7 years ago. Many were made outside Germany though but that sale is over of course. I just looked and German made Lugers cost between $1,500 to 5,000 USD in working condition. Still collectable but hard to justify buying in this economy.
 
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STOP THE PRESSES!

just found this by accident:
[video=youtube;zaQBxn34N9E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaQBxn34N9E[/video]

i'm drooling!
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and my keyboard is soggy.

apparently they're making 5, have that one (serial no. 1) completed and a navy version also ready for sale at the time of the video. they're likely all gone by now tho.
 
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