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Teach your children well
Grandson Miles enjoyed this before homeschooling became pandemic chic.
No
, srsly. I mean it. He did.

A twee gun post

I used to be a gunblogger – so, here, a gunnie-post

, d-uh).
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Let’s take a nerd break from the Medal posts…
, and would have been used in the Auld Soldier’s Vietnam and Germany artillery battalions.
I like Big Guns and I cannot Lie…
The Castle’s M20 75mm Recoilless Rifle
I had some clean-up and preservation to perform. Built by Firestone Canada, it was left with the Italians after WWII who surplused them out in the late 90’s. The demil process to get it into the US was hard on it (as intended) and the repair work to build it back to a legal display dummy added to the stress on the finish and accelerated the corrosion. Since the firing mechanism is still serviceable, this transfers like a rifle, as you can adapt a sub-caliber device to function in it. You have to be careful – the issue subcaliber devices mimic a complete cartridge. Due to the requirements of the status as a legal dummy, the gun will not chamber a proper round. You have to modify the sub-cal device to work, *not* the gun. Or the AlFabeT Bois will not be happy with you. There are some people who used to do this, though I’m not sure that’s being done anymore, as these have all disappeared into collections and you don’t see them on the market much.

, looking at the breech end.

Remembering how it all got started
…when the government came for the farmers’ arms.
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A good tired
I safed a rifle range today
, in CAT IV heat.
Great folk, no incidents, no injuries. Everyone cooperated with the RSOs. Let people shoot the BAR, Luger, P1, and Inglis Hi-Power. Got to hear a suppressed AR-platform rifle. Nicely quieted. *Not* “silent.” Helped a fellow ID weapons left to him by his Dad.
I.am.knackered.