Posted on 02/11/2009 8:18:36 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
wow, I want One!
Those are shots of marmot (rock chuck) hunting in the Rockies.
For the original film go here
Or maybe from Prince Alexander Nevsky and the battle on the ice against the Teutonic Knights.
my favourite sniper quote: “It was my first kill. I had a cigar afterwards. I didn’t lose any sleep about it. He was a Taliban commander after all.” - Dallas Turner, Royal Marine Sniper
THANK YOU!
i’ve been sent those videos about a dozen times in email and altho i couldn’t find any proof that they weren’t fakes, i was sure it had to be a much smaller animal.
Interesting article - thanks for posting. Not many are aware of the Winter War.
I wasn’t either until I added a Finnish Model 39 to my modest gun collection. The Model 39’s were built on a Russian Mosin-Nagant receiver, many captured in battle from the Russians. The Finns added a heavier barrel and otherwise modified the Russian design to make a very accurate rifle. It is considered by many to be the pinnacle of design for the Mosin-Nagant variants.
If you look closely at mine, you can make out the faint outline of the Russian Imperial Eagle on the receiver. The Finns ground most of it off. This rifle was around long enough to see action on one of the WWI fronts with the Russians, and the Russian Revolution.
It is very possible that it was carried into Finland by a Russian conscript, taken in battle and modified by the Finns to be used against it’s original owners.
This rifle has more history crammed into it than just about anything else I own. And yes, it still shoots tight groups.
The success of the Finns was also due to Stalin’s secret purges of the officer core of the Soviet army in the late 1930s, which executed 90% of all Red Army generals, 80% of Red Army colonels, and 30,000 officers of lesser rank. The Soviet army sent into Finland was led by communist party hacks - sort of the goal Obama has for the US military.
Interestingly, the success of the Finns against the Soviets caused Hitler to presume he would have similar success against the Soviets, and failed to note the improvements in the Soviet military following the disasters in Finland.
Sorry, I didn't know that.
And Canadians too.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
If someone aint’ out there feeding the hogs RIGHT NOW, then it probably isn’t going to happen this side of getting loaded on to a box car.
They have a lot of them. Sometimes it's frozen rivers. They supplied Stalingrad by moving supplies over the frozen Volga river. The Germans had hoped to take the city before the river froze. They didn't get 'er done and that time General Winter was on the Soviet Side, as he usually was.
I'd say that statement is a little premature. But not much. If HR 45 or a new and vastly improved "Assault Weapons Ban" were to pass and be "rigorously" enforced, then will be the time for that statement to hold.
I wouldn't.
I'd say it was already past due time when the first Brady bill was passed. I'd say it was time again when that bullet separated Vicky Weaver's frontal lobes. I'd have said it was again as Branch Davidians roasted alive or choked to death on CS. It was time yet again when Elian Gonzalez was sent back to a Communist country, when Alberto Sepulveda was shot in the back and killed, when David Olofson was carted off for a malfunctioning gun, when Carl Dregga tried to restore his rain washed embankment and was nearly bankrupted out of his house by capricious officials, when Red's Trading Post was nearly harassed out of business, when the first bank bailout was passed absent Constitutional authority, when Bill Akins device was first approved... then made a felony to own by the BATFE, when Len Savage got that last visit from the Feebies due his testimony in Olofson's trial...
How much more is it going to take? When does that "final line" get crossed? How many times are we going to re-draw that line in the sand one yard back...
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Nice shootin'.In three and a half months of war, the outnumbered and undersupplied Finns inflicted more than 130,000 casualties upon the Red Army while suffering 19,500 themselves.Of course, the Red Army wasn't exactly the best place to be if one was a WWII-era soldier. ;') |
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