I have a buddy that was born and raised in Turkey and he told me the following about what the note said: It is a kinda funny note. First line is like a riddle basically saying "90 days of stupidity just remember to keep your distance." Bottom writing is like a complaint saying "What type of service is this, all I do is sit down and stand up this not being a soldier."

Hey guys I have almost never had a rifle I ever found anything this interesting in, BUT with that said I bought a Radom V35 Nazi made pistol from a friends father I believe its dated 42 and this pistol came with a sheet of paper that explained how the gun was acquired in Germany by a P47 pilot who was shot down. The pilot explained that he got out of the plane ok but all he had was hi 1911 and about 8 miles to walk to get out of Germany before he would be captured, somewhere along this walk he heard one gun shot and a bullet hit the ground in front of him and then he saw the German who had fired the shot at him and the pilot shot the German with his 1911 and killed him. As he walked by he grabbed the Germans pistol which was the Radom V35, the one I now have. The pilot walked himself out of occupied territory and was picked up by a good guys patrol and continued the war. Well he got home and told his wife that should anything happen to him that he wanted the V35 to go to his best friend. Well time keeps moving and our pilot passes away and his wife gave the V35 to his best friend who had it for another 10 years till he also passes away, well the gun came back to the pilots wife. My friends Father finally bought the gun and got the paper describing all this stuff and I ended up buying the V35 from him. I read the letter the gun is about 85% I think it was an early war gun because it still has a nicely blued finish. Well one day I loaded up the magazine and this is where EVERYTHING SUDDENLY all came together. The gun fired one shot and jammed, I cleared it and fired it again and after the shot the gun jammed again! I am thinking I need to look at that letter again and the pilot said when the German shot at him he only SHOT ONE SHOT! I took the gun to a gunsmith and he verified my thought that the gun had been sabotaged when it was built by forced labor Poles!!! How incredible is THAT, and I am not even remotely creative enough to come up with something like THAT!!!! I still have the gun and the papers it came with!

In 1976 I was doing renovation work on an old church in Baltimore Maryland. I was removing hand cut woodwork that was to be reinstalled later. On the back of one piece I found written with a pencil, the initials "J. D." and the date "1897." I often wondered who that craftsman was, so I decided to start signing my own work. But, I signed my whole name and date and added my current address as well. I did that for over 40 years in four different states, until retiring. So far no one has tried to contact me, so maybe my work is still standing to this day!

İt says 90 days gone keep your distance 88.1 slm means hi all you have to do is stand up and sit down all day thats millitary service here

"Sit down and stand up". Reminds me of US Army's, "Hurry up and wait". Cool find of the note. Congrats on the historic rifle. Thanks for sharing.

Its a rifle from turkish navy basic training camp. I had the same rifle when I was in navy. 14. BL. means 14th company other number is the rifles armory code. 87-4 means that soldier was there 1987 in the fourth conscript group means he was there between november-february . he says hello to the next group 88-1. 4 digit number at the bottom is his military number which is 4 digit number at navy. Muğla is where he comes from not where he made his military service. Theres no basic training camp in Muğla anyway. Probaby he was at Iskenderun navy training regiment where I did my basic training . My rifle is identical except the numbers on it . I can send a picture if u really wanna be sure of the origin

The 90 qún boru means 90 days in Boru (a place) Protect the distance Swearing about the warfare that is going on and that he is in a bad situation. 48 is his age Mugla is a city in Turkey.

Thats a great find. I had had a coworker I gave a ride to work & home everyday cause hed lost his license. After he got them back he had no ride so I said I have a old S10 that runs & drives good just a old work truck ill sell you. He was excited & said ok, & to thank me for the rides & selling him the truck on payments he said he had something for me. His uncle had owned a pawn shop & had been a prepper after his death the family found stuff hidden everywhere. When I got to his house be brought out a old early 1970s AR,it was wrapped in 10 pounds of was paper & packed with grease. The upper showed signs of use & the lower witch was fairly new was a custom built DPMS (i know but a Colt lower is so high) 20 inch barrel,🔺 hand guard crazy handle etc this is the rifle everyone is going for in retro builds. He told me it was mine for all the help id given for him, he still owed a little on the truck but I just gave him the title & called it even. When I took it apart to clean up I found 4 He'll Notes in the butt stock folded up in some yellowish plastic wrap. I still have the rifle its a great shooter the iron sights arent the best but I'm not going to put any optics on that rifle except maybe the old type scope that mounted on the carry handle.

As a former soldier I can translate the message. It says being a grunt sucks and I hope I live through this hell on earth. Signed- GI Joe. Every soldier from every country can relate that

I had a similar experience with my Swiss WWII era K31. A small note with the soldier’s name, address and rank was folded under the butt plate. This is typical of these (superb) rifles. I was very lucky regarding my M1.... Purchased it from a WWII combat vet who was a friend of my father’s, shortly before he passed away. He had acquired his Garand thru the CMP in 1960, because he “wanted to keep close the object that repeatedly saved my life in the war.” The astonishing thing about this 1943 Springfield-made rifle is that it is all matching, with the exception of the stock which was replaced by the San Antonio armory after the war. This pristine specimen takes your breath away.

go gun barw go gun bar mesafayi koru keep your distance burda tak yapma don't plug (stop) here gereken stan kalk stand up required burda askerlik bu here is the military sezgin intuition This is a 'phrase short-list' for someone serving in a Turkish speaking area, that didn't natively speak Turkish...quick phrases he kept in the buttstock to make sure he was saying the correct phrase (go, gun barred in this area, or don't stop here, or standing is required...no sitting)... Sezgin meaning 'intuition' is the give-away...so he could say 'I THINK...' possibly, prior to searching someone at a perimeter. We used such 'cheat cards' in the U.S. Marines in various war zones.

My CMP H&R M1 Garand had an old, fat used cigar tucked away in the stock's cleaning kit storage area. I put it right back and left it in there, imagine the stories this rifle could tell, probably from late Pacific WW2 to Korean War era.

I left a note of encouragement in the buttstock of my m16a2 before i turned it back in at the end of basic training. Fort sill fall/winter cycle 2012-2013

in 1997 I was working on the start of a P-40 restoration that had been retrieved out of Northern Russia , up near Finland. As I was disassembling what was left of the plane, I found notes from the young ladies at the Curtiss factory in Buffalo New York that had been scribbled on various parts as the plane was being assembled. Many years later it was discovered that it was was only 5 serial numbers away from the lost P-40 flown by RAF F/O Dennis Copping in the Sahara desert.

For translation it says, "We've been trying to get hold of you about your car's extended warranty."

That’s cool, the rifle has a story now. Only thing I found in one of mine was an armorer tag 🏷 from a Veterans post north of Atlanta. But the serial didn’t match the rifle, so my guess is the stock was changed out at some point.

I just remembered that my dad made me write a note and screw it behind the butplate on a Marlin .22 that my uncle gave me in 1975. My little sinister inherited the farm, so I’ll ask her to see what it said!

Friend recently bought a Winchester M 37 red letter. Shotgun had a chipped but plate so we remove it....There was a roll of newspaper dated 1940 in the stock , before the USA entered WW2.

Yeah. In 1971, when I was a sentry doing base security, the Marine CO at the base had bought an old '03 Springfield. He had the Marine Armorer look it over to clean it up and fix anything wrong with it - and the guy found a note in it. The Note said that it was being written on a cold winter night when the guy was on sentry duty at an Air Force Base, some time in I believe the '50's and he had included his home address - saying that if anyone ever found the note - to let him know. So - my CO did. Something neat all around. .

Always like it when u can get some insight into the history of old surplus rifles.

my translation of that note . 87-4 ( that number is a kind of identity of a soldier , he was joined at 1987 at the 4th group ) . 90 days waste of time keep the distance. 88-1 hello ( he says hello to the next group and giving his advice to them ) in here only thing u have to do is sit down and stand up . thats how being a soldier in here. Sezgin (his name ) his military number and muğla , the city where he come from.

Great rifle. Awesome to find the note inside. I have 3 M1 Garands myself. All Springfields.

You sure it doesn't say "ouch this darn thing almost took my thumb off"

Thanks for showing and sharing this interesting provenance with all of us. This hand written note adds much to the history and story of this rifle, it should be preserved. Thanks again...

The Turkish Air Force Guard who did security on our bus to and from Diyabikir, Turkey. I don't know if his M1 was loaded or not. But one afternoon leaving Pirinclik Air Station on the bus. The Guard was impressed with his M1. He held it out at a sitting port arms. The lock work fell out of it. You could tell he was embarrassed. He tried to put it back together but wasn't having any luck. A Tech Sargent I worked with was a former USAF CATM Instructor. He held out his hands and the Turk gave him the M1. He put it back together for him. My question to my Sargeant was it going to stay together if he needed it.

One of my mosin nagants had tally marks on the side. Had over 28 cuts on the wood.

I never found anything in my M1 but I did find an identification card under the buttplate of my Swiss 1911. Amazing bit of history.

“We would like to talk to you about your cars extended warranty” I’ve never been to Turkey, but plan to dine on some tomorrow so you can be confident that my translation is accurate 😎

Very cool! “…if guns could talk….” Well, this one did.

Nice rifle with a cool find.👍😎 This is still an item on my ever growing Xmas list 😁

Your Garand has the square cut receiver (op-rod area) which is somewhat rare. Springfield later cut a radius area dues to cracks at the 90* area. Lucky find.

Jeez thats a dream rifle. Man, your a lucky duck!

This Rifle is super interesting. The provenance of the Rifle is shown clearly. So cool.

Well that’s interesting. The rifle is sweet! Maybe Sezgin will see this.

I bought a Yugo SKS 15+ years ago. Inside the leather ammo pouch I found an old Yugoslavian 50 'dollar' bill a soldier had left and forgotten. Gave it to a collector friend of mine. Only cool thing I ever found like that.

When I left home with orders for Vietnam my WW2 veteran father hugged me and whispered in my ear "Remember son butt down, heads up". An old soldier's way of saying don't be an easy target and stay alert to everything happening around you. I wonder if this is not a closer interpretation.

Thanks for sharing the weapon and note with us. Sometimes it is easy to forget weapons are attached to people. Without the person, it is an expensive paperweight. I have to wonder how many people carried your rifle before it ended up with you.

Pretty cool, I also have an battlefield pickup AK with trench art, thing is beat up but works like it’s new.

In 1974 we took a squadron of Marine Corps F4J Phantoms to Izmir Turkey for Operation Deep Furrow. A Turkish officer was in conference with our C.O. Some of the guys were tossing a football around and the Turkish officer's adjutant made the mistake of laughing out loud. That officer bitch slapped him until his face was bloody. We were impressed

I guess you don’t know, the Turkish Army was largely conscript. The discipline was fierce. Beating of soldiers for almost. Any infraction, real or imagined, was common. Suicides of conscripts was common. The Turkish Army hierarchy is very strict. If there are 3 privates, their respective rank is easily determined, absent any other rank, date of service, if same date, hour or mi Ute of enlistment. If you’ve ever seen the film “Zulu”, the date of commission thing. The Turkish Army performed valiantly in the Korean War. The Garland has properly been the weapon of more than a dozen Turkish conscripts, it may have been used in one or more coups in Turkey, it may have been used in one or more pogroms against the Kurds.

The Garrand was big and heavy but one hell of a weapon...ALWAYS WORKED no matter what...

Has more on it than my note had that I found in mine. The note in mine only said "post 297 Saint Francis"

I honestly expected that note to be from 1Lt Milo Minderbinder's "M&M Enterprises". =P

One of my garands had a note from Audie Murphy… another had “PFC Lee Marvin” carved into the stock.

Thanks for the info and sharing now it makes sense why there’s ammo for the garand from turkey going Around with a date of 1964

The M14 I was issued had a paper with the range dope...

no telling how many times this wonderful piece of metal saved the handlers life or his buds life,what a machine

Exactly this is why I always check the stocks of my rifles. I even have a note in one of my family heirloom guns, from my great grandfather.

It says "we've been trying to reach you about your tanks extended warranty"

Translation: “This MRE needs soya sauce”-signed Happy Lucky Joe.

Father in law "liberated" a Schmeiser sub machine gun, and an "Eagle". Italy, WW2. Stuck his M1 into the seat springs of his duce and a half. Last he saw of the truck, getting loaded onto a boat....

sounds more like a note to read to your enemy or military partner from a another country

“Sit down and stand up” is probably synonymous with the US Army’s “Hurry up and wait” that we used to say. Kinda a service joke about the catch22, oxymoronic or sometimes ridiculousness of how the military seems to do the things that makes no sense.

WOW!!! Five digit M1...you got lucky!!! That note is so cool to find/have. The Swiss K31 rifles usually have/had the addresses of the former soldier/owner under the buttplate...I found one in mine..

the grunts when he pulled the lever back and placing the gun on the bed.... easy killer, gonna snap them twigs off.

Pretty Interesting. It was a Time Capsule of sorts. 👍🏻

I put it through my translator, it's saying "I'm sacrificing myself so men can walk free back home hope no one does anything dumb that ruins that haha"

My Danish Garand I got quite a few years back had a sight-in card in the buttstock with the number of clicks for zero at various ranges specified and the soldier's ("Soldat's") name.

That's so cool man I finally got my email notification That they received my order I sent it in July 2nd And I'm hopeful they will fulfill my request because they listed them as sold out.

This channel is gonna blow up

Well now we know what the Turkish guy who works at CMP does all day.

Hey guys a little update on this Radom I have in my possession it is SN F7436 I field stripped it today and all the numbers are matching and it does have a holster, it sure looks to be original. The holster is a flap type holster sealed at the muzzle and has a pocket for an extra magazine for the gun. The holster is brown leather is pretty decent shape but it sure loos original to the gun, I cannot find and numbers on the holster or the magazine for the gun I went online today and all the Nazi acceptance markings are on the gun where they should be and the frame, slide and barrel number all match. The P47 pilot who "acquired" the rigs name was Captain John Glaws he graduated flight school 10/10/42 and he flew P-47 with the 57th fighter group in the European theatre of operations. He was shot down 3 times over the war all in P47s it one of these times that he "acquired" The Radom! In reading his letter more and another letter from his wife Captain Glaws passed away in 1994. Its a hell and I feel very fortunate to be a tiny tiny little part of it! This next part hurts a little bit to say and many of you have given the same extremely good suggestion to donate this gun, holster and the letter that is with it to a museum, like I told Mr. Burns, sometimes our collectibles can outgrow us the collectors and that is my heavy hearted feelings about this gun! On Monday I am going to start to look for a very good museum Like the NRA museum or the WWII museum in New Orleans to donate the gun to, it does nobody any good locked up in my safe till I die and then heaven only knows where it will end up. Thanks to all of you for the good very knowledgeable comments concerning this piece, I will tune in again when the gun is gone and let you know where it went to! Thanks again! Karl

Years back - a friend and I would drive over to the CMP North store (once to the south store). Hand pick Garands off the racks. Great Greek returns and some pretty minty ones at that. Think they where $595 back then. Most gauged a 1 / 2 on the service gauges. The .22 training rifles and carbine releases where also great. CMP had millions of rounds of Greek HXP ammo back then also. Those where the days and long gone now.... thank you for the video. Brings back memories of those long 8 hour trip to the CMP north store.

WOW! That's a time capsule.

Interesting... thanks for sharing.

I am surprised the Civilian Marksmanship Program still has rifles for sale after being around all these years. That's pretty neat that you found a note in the butt stock though. Oh and I subscribed to your channel.

From some research I’ve done on Turkish mausers, they leave notes in rifles sometimes.

I put a note with my name, address and signature in the butt stock of all my weapons, just in case they are stolen. Something my dad told me to do years ago.

As a Veteran Soldier who did a tour in Turkey, I saw many Turkish Soldiers with M-1 rifles as well other WW 2 US weapons...

Super informative and just well done video Mine is a 1944 re barreled in 1945 Posted it on My KZfaq today Its interesting but no note Thats just Epic!!! Great video

Very cool.

What pisses me off is the prices the CMP wants for these weapons. Literally hundreds of thousands of pistols and rifles and wanting over a thousand each depending on grade.

I found one used earplug in the side pocket of a Hungarian AK mag pouch once…..

interesting piece of history.

"We fought the wrong enemy just like General George Patton said before the small hat tribe whacked him for speaking against them!!" - That's what should have been on that letter.

I brought a Remington model33 single shot 22 here in Australia. Removed a sling swivel from the bottom of the grip on the stock and found the first initial and last name of the original owner 25/05/34

My father-in-law gave me a P-38 that he brought home from Germany with a holster. Inside the holster there were 6 names, all were crossed off except the last guy. Pretty sobering when u see stuff like that inside the holster.

I found a price tag for 25.00 in my buttstock of my garand lmao

What we used to say was... Hurry up and wait. If you had a mission for 10 o'clock then we would have been woken up at 2am to get ready

Very cool

Basic training October 1962. M1 Garand. my issue weapon . would love to have it now.

Hey Omelette I got a question. My barrel has a lime green more turquoise color inside of it near the end of my rifle? Is this rust or something bad?

i once bought a BDU flak jacket and found a old ass wrapper for a jawbreaker in it.

I don’t know where you live but, I’m sure you could do a simple search and find a Turkish club or church or other group in your area for a translation or maybe a University language department that might be able to help. Nice story!

That's really cool! Find the guy that wrote it and give him a reward for taking good care of it for ya brother lolz!

Wow, what a fantastic find. Have you shot it much?

Bunda, mean( mother) atur mean (organise)

SOUND is so low ,it is impossible to discern what is being said. I was very interested but I now disenguage, and move to a different site.

The letter word like in Asia region can be sound Indonesia word or Philippines deep in rural area

In the 1950's I placed a note inside the tubing of a floor lamp that I had in my bedroom. I believe it was bronze or copper a decorated screw was on the top Many years later while on leave from the Marine Corps the lamp was moved into the kitchen next to where my father always sat and I remembered the note and while we talked I unscrewed the cap and handed the note to my dad. The look on his face was surprise and joy. I will always remember that event. I hope he never found the nude art book of woman I had hidden under a panel in the clothing cabinet in my old bedroom. What would he of thought of me. LOL.

i wish i could afford one of these.

Awesome ! How much you want for it ?

Thats cool.. would have really been cool if it said "its fukn cold here in Belgium "!!! Thx for sharing.

Hurry up and wait ...soldiers age old gripe

I found the soldiers zero card in mine, 8 clicks up, 0 clicks left.

Back in the 70's for 30 bucks I bought a 8mm 1888 gehwer (spelling?) that was a Turkish army rifle.

if you live near a local college maybe there is a turkish student that goes there and he can interpret the note.

the date is April 1987

87/4 main apx. 2009

I noticed, on the stock was an engraving of initials. Either MH or HW. I wonder... any way to research who the rifle was issued to?