Having savored a snort or two of rye whisky it struck me as a capital endevour to watch some Disney WWII cartoons. This obscure short about using the Boys Anti-Tank Rifle presented on YT. Our more senior SF members may remember that the NRA American Rifleman circa 1963 advertised the Boys Anti-Tank Rifle for $57.00.
Did you, or did someone that you know, buy an Anti-Rank Rifle?
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
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I had a Lahti 20mm anti-tank rifle in the 1980s. It came with several magazines and some cleaning accessories. Even back then ammo was $40 per shot. I took it to several NFL shoots and it never failed to impress. In addition to the high cost of shooting it, the dang thing weighed about 135 pounds, which has meant it was nice to have a buddy around to help move it around. Sometimes we had to carry it several hundred yards to the firing line. It was a real hoot to shoot. You knew this thing was hammering the target. I started to get nervous because it would not fit in any of my safes, and my son's friends began to blab about it. I eventually traded it for a nice military Thompson.
Never be more than one step away from your sword-Old Greek Wisdom
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