Sipsey Street Irregulars: Random Hannah moments from the machine gun shoot

Friday, July 17, 2009

Random Hannah moments from the machine gun shoot

Moisin-Nagant carbine.

Here's a few pics from the shoot taken by other folks there. My very sincere thanks to them. I still haven't procured the download cable for Hannah's camera. Oddly, there was another pic sent along with the Moisin-Nagants of her behind a .50 Caliber Ma Deuce and I can't get that one to download. More later.

Mike
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M14 recoil was intially a problem.

Recoil bruised her shoulder for a few days.

4 comments:

Crustyrusty said...: Dang. No fireball pics?

Hey, a girl that can handle 7.62x54R is alright in my book :-); July 18, 2009 at 3:50 AM
pdxr13 said...: I have both an M-44 and an M91/30. They were so cheap, don't choose.

The M91/30 has a "nicer" recoil, and much less night fireball. A little extra weight/length and detachable bayonet make it a favorite of cheap SovSurp rifles.

Rubber shotgun recoil pads help if you can find the rare one that fits the small butt of a M-N.

Thanks for the great screen-saver pix of Hanna and Zoe with weapons. When they pop up on a laptop screen in a cafe, there are some raised eyebrows.

Cheers.; July 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM
tom said...: Recoil pads and buttstrokes don't go together if you're buying one for survivalist purposes. "I want to gently bang you in the back of the head/neck with the part of my rifle with a soft rubber pad on it while you lay sprawled face first on the ground???"

Just sayin....Fighting rifles are made for fighting not people that worry about bruises and combat ain't the same as trap outings.; July 19, 2009 at 5:20 AM
Anonymous said...: If you have a memory card reader, you can bypass finding a cable for the camera.

Just pull the memory card from the camera, toss it in the card reader & copy the pics in "My Computer".

Chris; July 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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"A common language of resistance . . ."

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Random Hannah moments from the machine gun shoot

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