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  • motorcarman

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    I looked through my Mosin stuff and found a bunch of 'blanks' and a golf ball launcher that I bought years ago. I don't remember where I got them but it was when the crates of cheap Mosins were for sale everywhere.
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    CodyK

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    How much did you get it for?

    It was about $350 with shipping. I probably put another $75 into replacing a couple parts, buying a bayonet for it (didn’t really “need” one but got one anyway), and refinishing it with some red mahogany stain and 6 coats of tung oil (I didn’t think the tung oil was gonna work, but I sanded down the stain a bit and it started taking the oil). It looks fantastic, but I haven’t been able to shoot it since I put it all back together. Probably Monday before I figure out if it was worth the hassle or it’s just gonna be a pretty wall hanger!


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    Aus_Schwaben

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    They had vodka machines in apartments and othe places. And I read, a time or three, about Soviet Air Force aircraft crashing because someone on the ground crews drank the vodka they used in some of the systems. My favorite was the CGF tank crew that reported their T-55 tank "stolen". During the investigation, a tavern owner was selling high-grade steel for recycling. When the investigators went to the tavern, they found the T-55 in a pig sty out back missing a few parts. The tank crew had traded the tank in exchange for drinking all weekend.
     

    majormadmax

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    They had vodka machines in apartments and othe places. And I read, a time or three, about Soviet Air Force aircraft crashing because someone on the ground crews drank the vodka they used in some of the systems. My favorite was the CGF tank crew that reported their T-55 tank "stolen". During the investigation, a tavern owner was selling high-grade steel for recycling. When the investigators went to the tavern, they found the T-55 in a pig sty out back missing a few parts. The tank crew had traded the tank in exchange for drinking all weekend.

    When Viktor Belenko--who defected with a MiG-25 to Japan in 1976--reached the West, he related how officers and men often drank the alcohol used for the coolant and braking systems in aircraft. In fact, he told John Barron that the MIG-25 base he was assigned to north of Vladivostok was often immobilized, so rampant was the consumption of aircraft alcohol there. Observing that the MIG-25 needs half a ton of alcohol, Barron notes that in the Soviet Air Force it is popularly known as the "flying restaurant."

    Reports of widespread drunkenness within the Soviet ranks have long caused Western experts to ponder Soviet efficiency and reliability. "One-third of the men in the Soviet Army are alcoholics," a congressional source tells the Monitor. Although conscripts are forbidden to drink, second-year soldiers even trade their boots and coats for vodka, he says.
     

    toddnjoyce

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    Patton said a soldier who won’t fûck won’t fight. The Air Force corollary is aircrew that won’t drink won’t fly.
     
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