German guns
- Thread starter Big Bad
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No not true. They just speak the same language.
It’s like calling a Canadian an American.
The German ethnic and cultural diaspora once extended from Germany into the three Baltic republics, also into Silesia (now in Poland), Austria, Switzerland (Switzer Deutsch) Czechia (Sudeten Germans), Hungary (Ungarn Deutsche), Romania (Transylvanian Saxons), Russia (Volga Germans) as well as North America (notably Pennsylvania, the Mid-West and Texas) and several countries in South America. (There was some geographic contraction following the expulsion of the Germans during and after WWII and again after the end of the Cold War, when for example the Saxons of Romania were allowed to emigrate to Germany.) To claim that they "just speak the same language" diminishes the fact that there is a relatively consistent and recognizable world-wide German culture, one main basis of which is the German language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-dkWkGCSMs
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- Location
- Saskatchewan
Thanks for that Rob. I'd add significant amount of German culture exists in much of the Canadian Prairies, ( Hutterite, Mennonite, and German Catholics and Lutherans) and a few in southern Ontario. Also Namibia has a strong ethnic German population. I've been to Oktoberfest in Kamanjab, a Namibian rural town founded by Germans. I've hunted in Germany several times, and used many of their methods and German guns here in Canada too. I like German firearms. I currently hunt with a Krieghoff drilling and a kipplauf, a few Anschutz bolt actions, a Merkel double barrel big bore, and a Sauer. My CZ/Brno rifles and shotguns are heavily influenced by German style and design elements. All are wonderful, functional, and effective.
some people at the border speak more austrian or german for some than slovene but still do not consider themselves really german lol ... i spoke mostly german with my grand dad and mostly slovene with my grand mother ...
Agree. Remember, never use one part when you can use five. Just like their cars. Hard to fault a 98 though. Little of their modern firearms appeal to me much. - dan
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- Location
- S. Ontario
Much more than a few. Kitchener-Waterloo was founded by and built by Germans. The nearby counties too.
The city of Berlin, Ontario, changed its name to Kitchener by referendum in May and June 1916. Named in 1833 after the capital of Prussia and later the German Empire, the name Berlin became unsavoury for residents after Great Britain and Canada's entry into the First World War.
New Berlin in Alberta did the same. - dan
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
X2 on that fer me.
Does anyone know if the post war guns from GDR / west Germany on intersurplus are “ over built” like the guns he looks at in the video? Are some of the German guns on there prewar? Anywhere to find a good primer on various German shotgun makers? I always thought they were kind of ugly but the dual use philosophy discussed in the video has me interested in seeing how one shoots slugs.
Read one time that ethnic Germans were and are to the USA what Scots were and are to Canada, a small but strong and vital ethnic group that had similar roles in shaping the country. As for Kitchner-Waterloo, they are for sure the Oktoberfest capital of the east, so many Bavarian bands in so small a space.
i do not know about gdr but the ddr ones made by merkel were very strongly built ...
