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Re: Impressive weapons
Bob,
>>At 08:03 AM 12/30/2002 -0600, you wrote:
I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I was pretty impressed with
those "inferior" weapons because I was damn near killed by them several
times. A man killed by an 82 mm mortar is just as dead as one killed by a
240 mm mortar.<<
True. But Cookie was using "2nd and 3rd rate" as judged against more
modern weapons. Most of the Mosin-Nagant bolt action Russian (long)
rifles I saw were in pretty bad shape because of old age. The "carbine"
(short rifle) version generally was in better shape but many of these were
close to being worn out. And so on.....
Ed
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