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Topic ID: 102
#0, getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons...
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-06-20 at 03:31 PM
... I have encountered Ian's greatest review ever.

--G.
"As 1917 came and went, supply issues really became quite dire."
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#1, RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons...
Posted by MuninsFire on Feb-06-20 at 04:23 PM
In response to message #0
That's a --

Ah. He does a -very- good presentation on the subject given the...specific time period, doesn't he.


#2, RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons...
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-06-20 at 04:27 PM
In response to message #1
>Ah. He does a -very- good presentation on the subject given
>the...specific time period, doesn't he.

"The use of a solid brass cast handle on what is ultimately a single-use weapon really seems kind of ludicrous to us today, but, that was French munitions in the belle epoque."

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


#4, RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons...
Posted by SpottedKitty on Feb-07-20 at 06:54 AM
In response to message #2
>"The use of a solid brass cast handle on what is ultimately a
>single-use weapon really seems kind of ludicrous to us today, but,
>that was French munitions in the belle epoque."

I read these posts before clicking through to watch the review. I wasn't expecting to see something that looked like (and I'm fairly sure is) an actual door handle...

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#3, RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons...
Posted by VoidRandom on Feb-07-20 at 01:58 AM
In response to message #0
I would love to have seen a technical comparison with its German counterpart.

-VR
"...somehow the GL18 has 3 times the parts and required fine machining, with little apparant increase in lethality..."
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."