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Just to wash your eyeballs...

By The Armorer on March 3, 2004 | | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (1)

...from all the political stuff below, a gratuitous gun pic.

Top rifle is a Dutch Beaumont-Vitali, next is a Danish Krag-Jorgenson.
After those are a SMLE with the grenade discharger cup for supporting the rodded Mills Bomb, followed by a SMLE with a .22 cal Morris Aiming Tube (brass bit in the muzzle) training device installed, and on the bottom an Italian Vetterli rifle.

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By The Commissar on March 3, 2004 9:07 AM
Don't those sharp pointy things at the end get in the way when the gun goes bang?
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 3, 2004 9:38 AM
The Commissar had probably better stick to banking and aviation history... The sharp pointy things don't interfere with shooting, though the design of the Beaumont bayonet does reflect the muzzle-loading era when the bayonet had to be offset so that the soldier could load the weapon. No, the only bad ju-ju for the rifles in this pic would be if the soldier firing the rodded grenade got excited and used a bullet rather than a blank. That would cause some excitement, with minimum a bulged barrel, and if the barrel didn't burst (they are pretty strong) the wood might still shatter at the bulge, which would annoy the soldier and his compadres. It happened often enough anyway when launching rodded grenades that rifles no longer suitable for accurate fire were taken and had the stocks wrapped in wire to prevent just that from happening.
 
By Calliope on March 3, 2004 11:30 AM
Oh man. I want one of those with the grenade thing and the bayonet on the end...
 
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