Politicians will take credit, but we all know that is hot air. So yeah, let's keep this to the tactical aspects as they become clear. .
Similar movements have popped up in other threads, with allied forces intercepting slave laborers and concentration camp prisoners being marched...
Good news this morning, with the death of this bastard. I've learned not to trust anything I hear on the tactics and events of an operation like...
A film that rates right up there with Midway or A Bridge Too Far. .
The cooks on CG Cutters man the guns. And yes, the CG saw plenty of action in WWII. .
The cooks on CG cutters man the guns. And yes, the CG saw plenty of action in WWII. .
I may have taken my son in that plane some years ago when they toured Alaska. He had recently watched Memphis Belle, so crawling around that...
That would be some years after the "40 acres and a mule" delusion. I *believe* the "40 acres and a mule" thing started among veterans of the...
"Prime Minister David Lloyd George had allegedly promised them four acres and a cow to create a land fit for heroes." This sounds like the "40...
Oh, and Poppie asked about flash hider/muzzle brake. It's a ridiculous thing that was only on these early FALs. The later editions had a much...
These prism scopes are like a traditional scope in that it is a nitrogen filled tube, but instead of a traditional crosshair it has a whole range...
So I hear, but I have no desire to shoot into the sky while getting beaten half to death. The FAL in full auto was not controllable even with...
I've had a couple of Swedes pass through my hands over the years and wish I had hung on to one of them. With the Swede Mausers, it was more than...
The wood on this was black with 40 years of embedded oil and dirt when I got it. The trick to bringing wood back to original is to first take off...
I've been playing with my FN FAL in the last week or so. This particular rifle is a G1 model was ordered by the West Germans in 1956, the year of...
Gaines is a former target shooter, so maybe he'll drop in and comment ... on my comment. One of the issues that comes up in reloading for...
This is the film I mentioned, though it only shows the Czech forces in the east, not the American/Aussie/Brit forces in northwest Russia. [MEDIA]
This is how big a 12.7 cartridge is - roughly the size of a .50 BMG. Those are 7.62x54 cartridges in the photo. [IMG]
I have a book on the American experience in that fiasco around here someplace. It's a crazy slice of history. The excellent Russian film...
I'm looking forward to the film, and yes, the SLR. Coincidentally, I've just dug my Belgian G1 FAL out of storage, blown the dust off, and begun...
