On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 14:51:16 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Thursday, January 1, 2015 2:43:29 PM UTC-8, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:42:17 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 12:19:17 -0800 (PST), John H
wrote:

On Sunday, December 28, 2014 11:00:35 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote:
I enjoyed reading it. Of course it doesn't cover *everything* but is fascinating that is if your into that kind of thing. Some history behind the weapons too. I enjoyed reading about the detail behind the Albanian version of the SKS.

http://www.freeexistence.org/images/guns/

Very interesting! Don't know how I missed that. I didn't know about Mosin Nagants being made by Westinghouse either.

I may have to buy a Mosin Nagant sniper version. Looking at this one: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=461006600

autographed by Vasily Zaytsev it would be really valuable. ;-)

Who knows? Have to buy it first and find out.

I'm tempting you John...

https://www.classicfirearms.com/k31-rifles

Damn, Tim. The Schmidt-Rubens are out of stock. Crap!

BTW, here's a picture of Zaytsev. Note the scope on his rifle. It's
different from the scopes being sold today on the Mosin Nagant.

http://russiapedia.rt.com/files/prominent-russians/military/vasily-zaitsev/vasily-zaitsev_8-t.jpg

However, in the same set is a picture of a sweetheart sniper with the
scope being sold today:

http://www.etoretro.ru/data/media/680/1368886391059.jpg

Both from this set:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Vasily+Zaytsev&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=B-OlVLnKJcPaoATh-oLwCA&ved=0CI8BEIke&biw=1680&bih=904

or: http://tinyurl.com/kkfen64

Interesting.