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20101 posts		 Feb-06-20, 03:31 PM (EST)
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"getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons..."
 
   ... I have encountered Ian's greatest review ever.

--G.
"As 1917 came and went, supply issues really became quite dire."
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons... MuninsFire Feb-06-20 1
     RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons... Gryphonadmin Feb-06-20 2
         RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons... SpottedKitty Feb-07-20 4
  RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons... VoidRandom Feb-07-20 3

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MuninsFire
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338 posts		 Feb-06-20, 04:23 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons..."
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   That's a --

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

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome
decree,
Where Alph, the sacred river,
ran
Through caverns measureless to
man
Down to a sunless sea


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Gryphonadmin
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2. "RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons..."
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   >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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SpottedKitty
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556 posts		 Feb-07-20, 06:54 AM (EST)
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4. "RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons..."
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   >"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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Unable to save the day: File is read-only.


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VoidRandom
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154 posts		 Feb-07-20, 01:58 AM (EST)
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3. "RE: getting caught up on Forgotten Weapons..."
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   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."


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