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Who Amongst Us Has Owned a Mail-Order Anti-Tank Rifle?

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June 06, 2017, 12:29 AM
mr kablammo
Who Amongst Us Has Owned a Mail-Order Anti-Tank Rifle?
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?

https://youtu.be/9iL_6IyH9gs


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June 06, 2017, 01:26 AM
CD228
I've signed for two anti-tank missile launchers once.

I thought the ammo for those in now a collectors item?
June 06, 2017, 06:21 AM
bigwagon
When I was a kid in the early 80s I bought a British PIAT at a pawn shop for about $100. My mom sold it at a garage sale when I was in college!
June 08, 2017, 05:44 AM
CQB60
I'd give my left nut (right one is out of the question ) for a M3 Carl Gustav & crate of HEAT 655 CS 84-mm ammunition Wink


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June 10, 2017, 06:01 PM
greco
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.




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June 11, 2017, 11:35 AM
YooperSigs
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.


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