On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:01:03 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus25756 quickly quoth:
Let's pray that if you bought an actual Buck brand knife, it was a very old one. From what I've seen and heard, the new ones aren't even as good as the 10-for-a-dollar knives from China.
I think Searz sells 'em.
-- Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. -- Lin Yutang
Unfortunately, your payers were not granted at the time of purchase, this is a new Buck brand made in the US, not an old one. Seems to be stainless. I think that it will work for me. I am not a very demanding user. I will try to sharpen it as well as I can with that diamond plated flat bar.
Too bad they had to leave so much out. I really wanted to see sniper Tania Chernova crawl in from the river through a sewer pipe and then, still stinking, get a meal in a German mess hall.
Lets make that 3 things....the frog...is the bit of leather than holds the container..the sheath..to ones person. Variations on frogs can run into dozens of different types, materials, colors and so forth.
often times, military sub organizations had a need for something different from the herd for reasons both actual and ego.
for example...a marine group based on a ship, would have a difficult time with a full sized 17" bayonet aboard ship, so they were issued either cut down ones, or something utterly different
and so forth. accouterments and their reasons (or lack of reason) can be fascinating study.
want a simple start...check out a book on American civlil war accouterments....roflmao....
i thought it was a fascinating bit of utter insanity the evil flower uttered, and capturing it for posterity and putting it on display for a short time would be interesting.. it will wear out its entertainment value before long, then ill switch to something else.
Gunner
at yoyodyne they were all veterans of the psychic wars exiled from the eighth dimension where the winds of limbo roar" mariposa rand mair theal
while im a dauber as a welder, and a blacksmith as a machinist..military and geopolitical history are a long term interest of mine. shrug
one has to admire the russian peoples, if one knows their history. And one has to despise the ideology that enslaved them for many hundreds of years..and then things went down hill when communism took them under its wing...... at yoyodyne they were all veterans of the psychic wars exiled from the eighth dimension where the winds of limbo roar" mariposa rand mair theal
Gunner, looks like your life was full bodied! Possible after you walked through Concentration Camps in 70-es you also served in russian (by the way - why not Soviet?) military, I suppose under some pretended name. Otherwise - from where did you get so much knowledge about so obscure matters?
You should understand that nobody was protected when dealing with such evil Communists! Gavin survived just be accident, possible Zhukov did not have hangovers mornings Gavin visited?
For this one I could only add that KGB troops were very bad marksmen! Missed a lot and coz they were firing to the Germans direction this was the actual reason why Soviet Army killed 80% of all German troops in WWII.
Ok, thanks, now I see! This is the source of your knowledge! Very respectable source indeed!
The blocking detachments (zagradotryad) existed, but in relatively small numbers, I believe that it was 3 batallions per front (front is an army group). So while it would not be true to say that all soldiers has to fight with blocking detachments behind their backs, they existed.
The 80% of German personnel killed on the Eastern front, is correct.
From Order #227, it was 3-5 detachments per army, 200 personnel in each detachment. So it was 600-1,000 personnel nominal per nominal about 100,000 of an army.
So I know and you do - not the Gunner. Blocking detachments existed in all armies for hundred years and are nothing new. In Gunner(s) mind those terrible Zagranotryads were tha main instrument used by Soviets to win the war.
Gee, never heard about the Nagant 1895 Gas Seal Revolver?
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I've got one or three or so of them.
Wes
-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller
I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that Gunner Asch wrote on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:54:05 -0700 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
It has been said, that Democracy will bring wonderful things for the Russian people. They just need a strong leader to impose it.
Unfortunately for the Russians, experience has taught them not to get their hopes up. It's almost genetic by now. (In a similar vein, a friend wrote of getting their house built in Greece a few years ago. With over two thousand years of dealing with tax laws, tax avoidance was part and parcel of the planning. Real short form, if you get the county to sign off on the frame of the building, then that is the "final" price of the house, and taxes are based on that. Then you hire someone to finish the work... But they've changed the laws, again, and now everybody is looking for the edge to get around it,)
tschus pyotr
-- pyotr filipivich "I had just been through hell and must have looked like death warmed over walking into the saloon, because when I asked the bartender whether they served zombies he said, ?Sure, what'll you have?'" from I Hear America Swinging by Peter DeVries
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