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"A German husband (Junghanns) and wife pose with their 10 sons serving in the military, 1914. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division."

I wonder if poor Mom got any sleep over the next four years. Raising 10 sons to adulthood and then sending them off to the meat grinder, dreading every postman's visit.
 
Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson VC

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On the 5th July, 1900, at Wolve Spruit, about 15 miles north of Standerton, a party of Lord Strathcona's Corps, only 38 in number, came into contact, and was engaged at close quarters, with a force of 80 of the enemy. When the order to retire had been given, Sergeant Richardson rode back under a very heavy cross-fire and picked up a trooper whose horse had been shot and who was wounded in two places and rode with him out of fire. At the time when this act of gallantry was performed, Sergeant Richardson was within 300 yards of the enemy, and was himself riding a wounded horse
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The first VC recipient from a Canadian unit. 4 members of Canadian units would win the VC during the Boer War.

The first Canadian to win the VC was AR Dunn, for actions in Crimea in 1854 during the (in)famous "Charge of the Light Brigade."
 
HI !! guys in your opinions was it for show or they were trying new stuff ??? Anyway I would like to see the horses reaction and the score on the target.
 

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*lawrence said:
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Apparently "early prototype FAL's were designed to fire the German 7.92x33 Kurz round? Only after NATO decided to force everyone into the .308 did the rifle get a makeover and scaled up for the full power 7.62x51 cartridge".
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Actually I believe it should read "only after the United States decided to force everyone into 7.62mm" ..........
 
USS Nebraska (BB-14) in 1918 featuring an experimental camouflage pattern.

Regardless of whether or not it's effective in a modern context, I would love to see a return of "Dazzle Cam."1438118548488.jpg
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Seconds before the rodeo...
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fingers284 said:
Pretty much my experience, I had a horse I could shoot .22 off of him all day with no problem...but grab my 99 Savage (.284) and i ended up on my ass every time I tried it.
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I'm not so sure. By the time the 20th century rolled around, militaries had several hundred years of practice at getting horses used to the sound of gunfire,

At the same time, I doubt there was much combat utility to what the soldiers appear to be doing in those pics. It would have a lot of military utility, though. Have a demo troop touring the smaller villages and towns, showing off some trick riding with shooting combined, would stir up the imaginations of the young lads, get them dreaming of all the daring-do they could get up to, and the local recruiting office would have a busy couple of weeks.
 
Horses can be trained to not move during gunfire. Horses here know what a moving bolt or lever sounds like and they know what’s next. They don’t move. I have shot a coon and they didn’t know so they did run about 60 m and turned and looked to where I was. They will follow and inspect what I shot. If they know what’s happening they don’t move.
 
*lawrence said:
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Apparently "early prototype FAL's were designed to fire the German 7.92x33 Kurz round? Only after NATO decided to force everyone into the .308 did the rifle get a makeover and scaled up for the full power 7.62x51 cartridge".
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I would have thought it would have been chambered for the early experimental .260 and .270 british rounds.
 
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