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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #30 on: 29 October 2009, 09:58:00 AM »
if the rations are properly sealed, the nutritional value remains, but Yuck.... the taste

that Germany still had rations from 42 with their soldiers almost starving in 44, is however something different......

war is a bitch....
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Offline Aaron

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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #31 on: 29 October 2009, 01:01:39 PM »
Prolly just my lack of connecting the dots in chrono, but surely you don't mean they had their ammunition cartridges in them for that long, and having been stored as such in the first place?
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I believe the word magazine here is used in the meaning of a place where weapons and ammunition are stored (aka an armoury) rather than the magazine of a weapon.
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Offline answer_is_42

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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #32 on: 29 October 2009, 01:45:32 PM »
Quote from: former user on 29 October 2009, 08:42:13 AM
remember the crimean war

No...I'm afraid I don't. Bit before my time, that...

When I was in Hastings a year or so ago there was an antique shop with a Bren & PPSH41 in the window. Sadly, they were both quite a bit out of my price range...
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #33 on: 29 October 2009, 02:00:25 PM »
« Last Edit: 29 October 2009, 02:02:27 PM by Bungle »
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #34 on: 29 October 2009, 02:32:30 PM »
Quote from: answer_is_42 on 29 October 2009, 01:45:32 PM
No...I'm afraid I don't. Bit before my time, that...

When I was in Hastings a year or so ago there was an antique shop with a Bren & PPSH41 in the window. Sadly, they were both quite a bit out of my price range...


so You remeber Hastings but not the crimean war?  ;)
there was a huge scandal about contractors to the british army shipping rotten food to crimea
thought people might know, sorry :-I

can we stick to the models please?  >:D
there was this site with the lego weapons....
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Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #35 on: 29 October 2009, 03:09:16 PM »
I've always considered myself quite a pacifist (hence the name). However, I remember studying in the Stated in the early 90's and being invited on a weekend trip with a bunch of friends. All of us rather left-wing anti military etc. However, the guys who took us along, had some real gun freaks in their midst. Well, guess who were having a blast with the guns shooting beer cans (after having drunk them, OF COURSE!). So I can at least understand this almsot... sensual pleasure of people shooting or handling them. There is something weird and powerful about the weight, strength and noise of gun being fired. That's why I am glad not everybody in Germany is allowed to have one. There are just too many weirdos around who might have funny ideas.

I do realize it is a cultural thing and this is my personal opinion.

Oh, but seeing this old beauty... it would look rather sharp in front of our fire-place. Unfortunately the right to have a poster of The Who hanging in the living room has already been quite a struggle. I'm not sure about the machine-gun. Maybe if I painted it in friendly colors...? Like pink???
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #36 on: 29 October 2009, 03:15:05 PM »
Quote from: Doomhippie on 29 October 2009, 03:09:16 PM
...Oh, but seeing this old beauty... it would look rather sharp in front of our fire-place. Unfortunately the right to have a poster of The Who hanging in the living room has already been quite a struggle. I'm not sure about the machine-gun. Maybe if I painted it in friendly colors...? Like pink???...

A Hello kitty Machine Gun? You could even paint the logo on the MG's shield! lol
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #37 on: 29 October 2009, 10:10:57 PM »
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #38 on: 30 October 2009, 04:18:58 AM »

The U.S. is made up of 50 states each with its own gun laws, some very loose some very restrictive.  Interestingly those that are the least restrictive about possession and carrying a firearm, are those with the lowest crime rates, those that are most restrictive have the highest crime rates.

The is a web site that I am to much of a luddite to be able to connect, but it has various arms available, as well as numerous assecories.  It is well worth checking out.  It is International Military Antiques - USA  or IMA-USA.  Lots of cool but expensive militaria.
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #39 on: 30 October 2009, 09:37:13 AM »
Quote from: leadfool on 30 October 2009, 04:18:58 AM
The U.S. is made up of 50 states each with its own gun laws, some very loose some very restrictive.  Interestingly those that are the least restrictive about possession and carrying a firearm, are those with the lowest crime rates, those that are most restrictive have the highest crime rates.

Sorry to interupt off topic, but this is an incorrect statement of fact. Compare to Houston to Honolulu, for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

If there is a correlation, which I do no believe there is, it is far from a simple: more guns = less crime.

Moderator: please delete the offending post, which is liable to start a flame war, and this one too, as redundant once the other is gone.
« Last Edit: 30 October 2009, 06:55:03 PM by Mark Plant »
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #40 on: 30 October 2009, 11:29:16 AM »
now, now gentlemen

actually, this topic should have been in the open talk category, since it is not about our hobby.

from what I have understood, no correlation was made between the arms restrictions and the rate of crimes.
just an example given
If it were so, some examples from europe should be given too.

this is a rather controversial matter, and it also scratches at the wargamers' self understanding - keep that in mind

such a topic is likely to raise adrenaline, but also worth discussing (in my very personal oppinion)

so I think if everyone tries to keep on the fact side and maybe the topic is moved to the open talk, we are likely to make a revarding experience...


as to offending posts, from my experience I can offer the insight that one can delete them oneself, at least something like "bollocks"

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Offline Jules

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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #41 on: 31 October 2009, 07:51:55 AM »
Quote from: leadfool on 30 October 2009, 04:18:58 AM
The U.S. is made up of 50 states each with its own gun laws, some very loose some very restrictive.  Interestingly those that are the least restrictive about possession and carrying a firearm, are those with the lowest crime rates, those that are most restrictive have the highest crime rates.

The is a web site that I am to much of a luddite to be able to connect, but it has various arms available, as well as numerous assecories.  It is well worth checking out.  It is International Military Antiques - USA  or IMA-USA.  Lots of cool but expensive militaria.

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Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #42 on: 31 October 2009, 10:19:31 AM »
Yes, I believe this not the forum to discuss laws. As I said before, every country has a different approach to that and every person has (hopefully) some kind of opinion on that question. Let's just leave it at that.
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #43 on: 31 October 2009, 03:15:13 PM »
mg53/42-s-with-lafette-and-optics



They look kind of different in 'real life'.
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Re: Unusual find.
« Reply #44 on: 31 October 2009, 04:01:04 PM »
don't get it sorry
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