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Fierce fighters...Nor an for ARVN ranger, 1 foot shorter and 100 lbs lighter...
BAR is way too heavy. As a Ssgt. in the Philippines, Gramps was issued a BAR but immediately swapped for a M1 Garand. Up and down mountains, especially jungle mountains, isn't the place to carry a BAR. Since it's 1920, I'd go for a 1903 National Match.
I remember my Dad telling me something similar when he was in Korea. He loved the BAR in a fight, especially when carried by someone else. He liked shooting the M1, but preferred to carry a carbine. And everyone wanted a Tommy gun or Grease Gun (second choice) in garrison where they could look like a badass gangster.
What? You didn't get the memo that Gary Cooper was born in backwoods, hillbilly TN? And that 1911s in .45ACP work great with blanks? Fun fact, the "1911s no worky with blanks" issue also caused Tom Selleck to use a 9x19 Colt Series 70 in Magnum P.I.
Chances are you be waiting a long time in a remote area where few if any get the virus and you would starve to death first.I bring a bottle of hand sanitizer back gloves and a mask and wait for the spanish flu to kill someone with a gun...
Lol I know just a little pandemic humor in lieu of the current one.Chances are you be waiting a long time in a remote area where few if any get the virus and you would starve to death first.
Anyway we can go back in time and bring our current shit with us to 1920???Another coronavirus stir crazy thread. The year is 1920. You've decided to leave dreary old New England in exchange for some adventure in a remote place like Alaska, Southern Rhodesia, Kenya, or Burma. You've sold everything you own and can buy whatever you want within reason. Gun laws aren't a concern. WW1 surplus guns are flooding the used market. But you can only bring one long gun and one handgun.
I'm going with a Mauser 98 sporter in 7x57 and a C96 in 7.63x25.
Anyway we can go back in time and bring our current shit with us to 1920???
I read that York dumped his Enfield for a Springfield because he preferred the open rear sight of the Springfield to the peep sight of the Enfield but who knows.
Somebodys recreation of the Rick O'Connell characters weapons bag in the Mummy movie. Maybe I go back in time with only two weapons but that don't mean I can't get more when I get there right?
Subsequent acquisitions are condoned
Because mag dumps on elephants are unsporting.
There is the theory of time travel that you have to go empty handed and naked. I think that was true in Terminator? It is a popular truism in Sci fi novels.
I would chose the British Enfield and a 1911 also, mostly because i have owned and used both.. A little off track but, were Colt Monitors ever available to the public ?
In 1931 the new Colt Monitor was made available to civilians during the Depression at $300 each, including a spare parts kit, sling, cleaning accessories and six magazines, but Colt records indicate no domestic sales to individuals.