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To: Uncle Jaque
Re: "...a nasty very LOUD and distinct "CLICK!!" when removing the safety!! "

yeah... but Hollywood LOVES it, don't they?

Sort of like the cowboy who racks the lever of his '94 or the Detective cocking the hammer of his double-action .38 when confronting bad guys... it sounds so MENACING!

I was once present at an informal affair when a drunk who had sideswiped a parked car came to advise the occupants that they shouldn't have left it legally parked on the street in front of their home where some poor drunken driver might bump into it. Upon finding out that the car's owner was a smallish female, he began to get really nasty, and I began thinking about the folding stock M1 carbine I knew she had in her bedroom, just in case the guy and his pals decided to push in the screen door.

No need. I was just about to cross the bedroom door threshold, when I heard a very distinctive whack! followed almost immediately by a similar but slightly different snack! And she had the immediate situation taken care of.

No, not a shotgun. One of these. Yes, they do indeed sound menacing. Small wonder Swiss troops haven't been in a shootin' war in some 400 years.


141 posted on 04/17/2006 11:25:10 AM PDT by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
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To: archy

That Sdmidt-Reuben K-31 is reputedly a very well made and accurate rifle for the price.

FFL Holders can still get them for around $100, BTW

http://www.aimsurplus.com/acatalog/Swiss_1931_Carbin_Scmidt_Rubin_K31_7_5Swiss_Cal_.html

The 7.5mm Swiss is sort of an odball Round, but ammo can be had here and there, and some people reload for it.
It's probably about comparable to the .303 British in performance.


153 posted on 04/18/2006 9:45:17 AM PDT by Uncle Jaque (Club Freedom; Dues: Vigilance.)
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