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  • The Bolt-Action Rifle from a Dead German Soldier

    09/14/2020 8:29:37 AM PDT · by w1n1 · 12 replies
    Am Shooting Journal ^ | 9/14/20 | F Jardim
    Stolen During The Great Depression - George Irish was an independent-minded man. In 1917, he was 25 years old. He made a living as a jack-of-all-trades in Summers, Conn., just across the border from Massachusetts. He wasn't married and America had just become involved in what became know as World War I. He volunteered for the army. He was assigned to an artillery unit and trained in the Midwest before crossing the Atlantic in an improvised troop ship. In France, he didn’t work the guns, instead he kept the dough boys who labored over them fed. He was a muleskinner,...