WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
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- GeeRam
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WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
Couple of chaps next to us this morning on 300yrds Century using the new electronic targets, one with a nice scoped Mosin, and the other guy inducing much straight-pull envy from me with a lovely Garrand.......
until, the guy with the Mosin put it away and brings out a Stg.44, and I thought "He's being hopeful to get that .22RF at 300yrds"
I was scoring for someone so didn't see him load it, but soon heard the very un-rimfire sound it made - oh my!
It was only one of those straight-pull Sport Systeme Dittrich Stg.44's in pukka 7.92x33 Kurz - first one I've ever seen close up - serious envy time
until, the guy with the Mosin put it away and brings out a Stg.44, and I thought "He's being hopeful to get that .22RF at 300yrds"
I was scoring for someone so didn't see him load it, but soon heard the very un-rimfire sound it made - oh my!
It was only one of those straight-pull Sport Systeme Dittrich Stg.44's in pukka 7.92x33 Kurz - first one I've ever seen close up - serious envy time
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
aaarggh
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools!!
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
Hi, That was our club. Only the second outing for the Garrand. We shot them at 600 in the afternoon
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
There we go a club member who can supply the pics
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
Mail2pete wrote:Hi, That was our club. Only the second outing for the Garrand. We shot them at 600 in the afternoon
It was me that you asked about how to use the electronic machine at the start!
Shame we got a bit busy, as I wanted to come over again and have a closer look at that Stg.44 and your Garrand which looked a lovely one.
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
Does sound very nice - both Garand and Stg! I was firing our clubs M14 straight pull on Saturday and I love that!
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
I've shot an original Stg44 (not mine) back when we could own such things. It was a joy to shoot little recoil when compared with an AK and we were using 1944 dated steel case ammo.
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
This thread is desperately in need of some pics!
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Re: WW2 era straight pull envy at Bisley today
Nice. Very, very nice.channel12 wrote:http://www.ssd-weapon.com/bd-43i.html
I've shot a .22 version, and that was quite fun. The centre fire version must be a joy.
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