Cool. I watched that WW1 documentary last week “They shall not grow old” where they restored all these movies from WW1, it was wild. They looked like they were taken a week ago, so much detail you could see the rotten teeth of the English soldiers...
https://youtu.be/IrabKK9Bhds?t=56
Is being semi-literate a requirement for "writing" for this august outlet, or does it merely provide a leg up? Consistently awful, no evidence of editing, ever. Pretty bad, even by FR's low standard.
Ok...I want a bayonet on my Mossberg 500.
The trench shotgun never lived up to its potential due to the paper cartridges that quickly ruined in the wet conditions of Western Europe.
I happen to own one of the 1897 models. My dad bought it in the 30s, and used it for pheasant and duck hunting long after that. I used it a few times in the 60s, before I moved away from home. When I moved it from my parent’s home a dozen years ago, it was covered by a newspaper. The front page had a picture of henry Kissinger, wearing bell bottom pants and proudly sporting pork chop sideburns.
I know people that carried a 97 even in Vietnam.