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Re: Taliban arms sales
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 9:33 pm
by Pete
I came back with a heavy sheepskin coat that started to smell really bad a year later..........
Pete
Re: Taliban arms sales
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:26 pm
by Dark Skies
snayperskaya wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:33 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:44 pm
I backpacked around Afghanistan in the 70's, and I've seen the workshops in the NW frontier province.
The quality varied enormously.....much of it was poor, but hey, it went bang and the bullet went more or less where intended, so the locals were happy.
Some of the AK's were very good.
Pete
That must have been quite an adventure, any photos?
He would have, but then he stumbled across poppies and hashish and ... :)
Re: Taliban arms sales
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:47 pm
by bradaz11
snayperskaya wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:45 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:01 pm
Only a std 8 movie film spliced up from around 20 spools that I never got around to digitising. (It covers Germany to India).........I still have the Eumig projector somewhere, so maybe a project for the autumn.
As for an adventure, I had the wrong visa... when I tried to leave via Torkham, they took my passport, so my stay was extended somewhat.
Pashtuns were great warm hospitable people, though.
Pete
One of the guys I work with is a Pashtun, he would go back to Afghanistan to see his family every December for about 4 weeks (don't know if he'll go this year!) and on one trip over there he brought me back a 1986-dated Soviet Border Guard winter Afghanka jacket that one of his relatives had tucked away for years, it has a definite "been there, done that" look to it!.
did they sew up the hole in it?