Thye world must have come to an end, because ten years ago EVERYONE just KNEW those Turks would take half-a century to learn how to build guns - if ever even those heathen savages could do so.. Of course, the Italians and Czechs and other Euro-financiers/suppliers/engineers who really kicked the Turk gun industry into gear didn't know anything, either.
That plain scalloped boxlock is a nice-looking practical piece, and thank you for posting those great world-wide hunting pics.
And, Korean War Turks: a single squad of them armed with Enfields, assigned as forward observers, once held a roofless, stone-walled-hut all night long against a mass-wave attack on the Allied lines. Eventually, the North Korean/Chinese advancing masses split around that stubborn lethal bunch and just left them alone -- continuing the Communist attack on the UN forces, which were located well behind the outpost.
