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[Bill Hollinger]

Syrian rebel utilizing 80 year old technology

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[WarPig1976]

Honestly I don't know if this is a good thing or not.

[bonnie]

Looks like he's about to launch a round. Ready or not.

[Doco overboard]

Still sold out here

[browningautorifle]

Well, as we all know...it'll get the job done.

[Sentryduty]

I would be interested in what the ammo is and who supplied it.

Bottom bandoleer, far left round has a dark colored tip, single AP?

It could be the photo, but the case necks almost look like a lacquered steel composition, Wolf production .30-06?

Ammo sources in hotspots can be hard to trace, in Afghanistan we would recover everything from 1979 vintage Soviet cases to one year old S&B, and stuff in between.

[browningautorifle]

Bottom bandoleer, far left round has a dark colored tip

They could also just be scrubby ratty cartridges that have been around a while...

[Sentryduty]

They could also just be scrubby ratty cartridges that have been around a while...

Quite possible, hard to glean a lot from that photo conclusively.

[Bill Hollinger]

He also has them in backwards making it more difficult to grab with sweaty hands and awkward to load having to turn them.

[browningautorifle]

Agreed, I'd love to lay hands on all that after HE was done...to examine it.