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2016-03-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Frank G 2016-03-07 10:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Bad, hows your Mosin workin?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-07 11:47|| 2016-03-07 11:47|| Front Page Top

#2 You just have to provide proper maintenance and care to a Mosin.

Step one is having it rearsenalled by Finland.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-07 13:42|| 2016-03-07 13:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Do the Finns have a way to quiet those things down?

Mosins are annoyingly loud, even with ear protection.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-03-07 14:57|| 2016-03-07 14:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Russians invented the first sonic disruptors. The Klingons only copied them!

Posted by Thing From Pavel Chekov Mountain 2016-03-07 15:33|| 2016-03-07 15:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Bad, hows your Mosin workin?

It works.

Posted by badanov 2016-03-07 15:53|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2016-03-07 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 The original Mosin Nagants were excellent and extremely accurate.

When the Boleshiks took over they wanted to continue to use the Mosin but wanted to expunge the nasty old Czarist origins but taking them all in, disassembling them and throwing all the parts into a pile and randomly reassembling. Eli Whitney the early Czarist gunsmiths were not and the results were not so good.

But remember, the Reds used the Mosin as a sniper rifle for a bazillion years for its accuracy.

I agree with all of the rest of the article except the Thompson. What you see in the video is a dumbed down version of the Thompson simplified for mass production and use by the Airborne. So much of what the narrator says is true of the WWII version but not the older versions.

I had a Thompson for a brief spell and I like the interchangability of ammo between my beloved Colt and the Thompson. Besides in the fricking jungle you rarely get to shoot at anything that isn't right in your face and the .45 cuts brush much better than the M-16 or the AK (which I think is a piece of crap). Go tell those Cubans in Angola that the Thompson is an over rated weapon...

Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-03-07 17:19|| 2016-03-07 17:19|| Front Page Top

#7 My bucket list has a Thompson on it.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-03-07 18:14|| 2016-03-07 18:14|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm sure Roland would provide a testimonial about his, had he a head to talk with.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-07 18:27|| 2016-03-07 18:27|| Front Page Top

#9 One can still see the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun.

Posted by Lowspark 2016-03-07 20:41|| 2016-03-07 20:41|| Front Page Top

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