No problem, just a little joke and I won't be 90ish for a few years yet. Cheers!Please inform me as to what aspect of your person have I insulted. Doubt you're the guy in the picture, we havn't had dispatch riders for many a years and I would be amusingly troubled that you identify to the name of Vivianne
So if I'm betting with the guy in the picture you're 90ish or more and as such I'll take the bet ( Jerry, however, will be pissed; he had a busy weekend coming up)
Cheers mate
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- Thread starter jwhc
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Likely a confiscation.
Dark Alley Dan
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Meanwhile, 700 yards away...
"Klaus vas saying he likes puzzi. He vasn't schpezifik, und zo ve tried to cover all der bazes..."
"Klaus vas saying he likes puzzi. He vasn't schpezifik, und zo ve tried to cover all der bazes..."
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Wouldn't I love to have one of those......
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indeed, but to be honest I'd be happy with any bike from that time period, especially if it saw service during the war.
Speaking of Canadian snipers, this is an interesting piece of kit...
looks like a 280 ross that he is useing
Dark Alley Dan
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Marilyn had VERY nice pins...
One doesn't often see the Reising SMG in use...
Is good for Comrades, also:
One doesn't often see the Reising SMG in use...
Is good for Comrades, also:
The issues with Reising reliability had to do with how they were used and maintained by the Corps. Reising's were hand fit guns - barrel individually fit to receiver, individually fit to bolt, etc. And all matching Reising is pretty reliable, by all accounts.
The problem stems from how they were maintained by the Corps. The regimental armorers would strip them down to components for cleaning and maintenance (which happened fairly often, given the mud, rain, sand, volcanic grit, etc. of the campaign environment), and clean them in batches... Barrels and bolts would get mix-mastered, and, well... problems.
It wasn't really a bad design, and individual soldiers who had "good 'uns" would swear by them (lighter than the Thompson by a fair margin, and more compact with that collapsible stock). Just the manufacturing never got fully sorted out for mass production - too much hand fitting. In an institutional environment, that's the death knell of reliability. Especially in wartime conditions.
Dark Alley Dan
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Our American Cousins were just about the only wholesale users of combat shotguns in WW2, were they not? There's something strongly motivating about that huge feckin' bore...
