What is the context, and who are these girls?
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What is the context, and who are these girls?
^ Marksmen's festival in Escholzmatt 1939: women in traditional costumes with rifles Marksmen's festival in Escholzmatt 1939: women in traditional costumes with rifles (image meta data)
Googling - Marksmen's festival in Escholzmatt 1939 - gives Schützenfest (a traditional festival or fair featuring a target shooting competition in the cultures of Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.)
6Gun
Googling - Marksmen's festival in Escholzmatt 1939 - gives Schützenfest (a traditional festival or fair featuring a target shooting competition in the cultures of Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.)
6Gun
Dark Alley Dan
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Rifles are Swiss. The woman with glasses is taking this very seriously.
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ah yes the Swiss,
the one on the end looks like a charming Swiss Capt I knew, she was the EA to the Swiss Contingent Commander. Oh she was a real fireball
Let's not forget about our lovely Canadian Girls. Sgt. ### has won more international competitions than most of us even know exist:
Even with that POS optic and Ukrainian no less.
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Hate to break it to you but even the First Nations originally came from somewhere else.
DNA says FN originated in South America.
I guess that depends on which tome you read.
Some say they crossed the land/ice bridge between Asia and North America.
Who really knows?
A couple of Ice Ages could create all sorts of scenarios, most with believable information.
X2, oriental racial characteristics seem to be prevalent. Some claims out there that the Chinese actually ventured as far as South America. Vikings of the East.
Grizz
X2, oriental racial characteristics seem to be prevalent. Some claims out there that the Chinese actually ventured as far as South America. Vikings of the East.
Grizz
Believe it or not, there are 56 recognized ethnicities in what we call Chinese. I'm not wagging a finger in your direction Grizz, just an interesting factoid that not a lot of us know about is all.
Having said that, the ethnic group called the "Han" make up 92% of them. I'll show myself out.
Sure, with the patented rubber band fix to preserve zero it can be useful.
How is that offensive? I was merely pointing out the irony given the present circumstances in Ukraine; where her talents would be most beneficial. The Ukrainians have been employing female snipers to good effect.
UBC DNA research project.... common DNA from South America all the way throught the US to Canada....
