On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 21:51:05 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Thursday, January 1, 2015 4:22:39 PM UTC-8, John H. wrote:
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.

That one Rubin is available, but most other models are out it seems.

Concerning Russian snipers, most were women it seems due to the men doing the heavy grunt work on the front.


So if I buy the sniper version of the Mosin Nagant I'll be buying a
'girlie gun'?