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I've got a few of those. They aren't painted Olive Drab and don't have broad arrow C markings.
I handled hundreds of them.
Actually, no paint at all.
They were all certified as being exactly 50 pounds, give or take a tenth of an ounce.
We used them to calibrate industrial commercial beam balance scales for the component hoppers required for making up the mixture needed for commercial glass containers.
They went to electronic load cells for the final years before closing, because the required a lot less maintenance.
When we purchased replacement weights, appx 20 years ago, the cost was around $100 each/delivered/certified.
When the plant sold them a few years later, they got the price of scrap iron. Not much demand for them.
I kept some to add weight in the box of my pick up.
I handled hundreds of them.
Actually, no paint at all.
They were all certified as being exactly 50 pounds, give or take a tenth of an ounce.
We used them to calibrate industrial commercial beam balance scales for the component hoppers required for making up the mixture needed for commercial glass containers.
They went to electronic load cells for the final years before closing, because the required a lot less maintenance.
When we purchased replacement weights, appx 20 years ago, the cost was around $100 each/delivered/certified.
When the plant sold them a few years later, they got the price of scrap iron. Not much demand for them.
I kept some to add weight in the box of my pick up.
Dark Alley Dan
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Happy April Fool's Day, lads. Any of you familiar with Bing Coughlan's Herbie?
Sadly, not amphibious.
This RCAF Douglas Digby Mk. I (serial 738, PB-N) ditched in Freshwater Bay, Newfoundland on 2 January 1942 after an engine fire. Here the crew and local Newfoundlanders are recovering the Digby to shore.
'scoped (?), suppressed and back in action, SVT-40 in use on the UKR side.
Dang bubba, always has to wreck milsurps...
One of the side benefits of being the bread basket of Europe.
There were a lot of them destroyed when the salt mines they were being stored in, were blown up in 2014. There may also be a very real concern about ammunition supply.
The rifles you mentioned are all still using currently made ammunition and is used by both the Russians and Urkainians in their machine guns, as well as the Dragunov sniper rifles, which don't seem to be in wide usage, from the videos I've seen.
Maybe the journalists haven't been given the opportunity to photograph the rifles being carried or in actual use???
Thanks, that was very good.
Donny Fenn1
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Maybe they want to hit what they're aiming at?
Why would you carry an SKS when you could carry an AK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDd8NFftuXI
Link above is a video by noted historian, Mark Felton regarding WWII weapons currently being used in Ukraine.
Link above is a video by noted historian, Mark Felton regarding WWII weapons currently being used in Ukraine.
Dark Alley Dan
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Trigger by Shimano. And at long last, the Venn diagram of bicycles and guns overlaps just a titch. But it wasn't always this way:
"MUSH, you huskies!"
This is stylish and fanciful:
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Having owned , and shot , both alot , there isn't much to choose between them accuracy wise . I think the poster was referring to the fact that an SKS would be preferable to a MN or SVT etc .
