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I suspect the reports of explosive bullets are somewhat exaggerated as the German 7.92x57 S Patrone was often mistaken for an explosive or dum-dum round in WWI due to the "explosive" nature of the...

Rather ridiculous that the Allenberger book has 2500+ reviews on Amazon and the "Voices of Russian Snipers" has precisely one. Allenberger is useful for the window it provides into the typical...

I'll add a caveat to what I said in my last: instead of rebuilding the SMLE snipers with heavy barrels, another and perhaps better option would have been to refit the scopes to more P14s.

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Yes, that's what I referring to when I mentioned the U.K. sell-off as happening in the early 20s; all gone by probably mid-20s at the latest. A few survivors have turned up over the years just as...

Of course, AFAWK we're only talking about experimental work until the PE is settled on circa 1931



My copy is well-thumbed; no mention of scopes being sold in the 1930s that I can recall. Do...

Jamming issue is a subject in itself; no space for that here except to say the design like all straight pulls lacks the leverage advantage of a turn-bolt, but as long as dimensions and case quality...

The forum’s response coding has reached its limit now, so I’ll just put my previous in italics, your replies in normal font, and my lastest responses in bold.

It seems pretty clear that these...

It seems pretty clear that these rifles represent experimentation that was going on. By 1931 had the Soviets not settled on using the Mosin-Nagant as their sniping rifle? I'm not a student of the...

I know the scenes you refer to because I saved screenshots from them a year or two back. ;) As you know there is also a very grainy crop of a photo showing a Mk.III Ross with a severely cut down...

It's good to be sceptical. You are probably right that it would be a subject fairly low on the list of Red Army priorities compared to tanks or gas warfare, but anyone studying war on the Western...

From the existing evidence, circumstantial and otherwise I would say it is a certainty.

Would German firms supply the Soviets with military equipment without clearing that through the proper...

IIRC the Reichswehr under Gen. v. Seeckt began their secret military cooperation with the Soviets around 1923 - once the Russian Civil War and I suppose the Russo-Polish war were well and truly over...

The Reichswehr did a fine job of teaching the Red Army all about sniping in the 1920s, and Zeiss and Busch got them all set up with suitable scopes.

"Cutting off your nose to spite your face".