The Negatives of Collecting Milsurps

[Aragorn243]

I found a movie that looked good, had some war movie "stars" I recognized so I started to watch it. It was called a Company of Heroes.

Lots of action right off the bat, a rather bloody affair, a bit excessive IMHO. I'm really not paying that close attention to the rifles at first but there is a sniper and he's carrying something very weird with a weirder scope on it. This catches my attention and I go into ID mode. Appears to be a modified SVT-40 with a cheap 22 rimfire scope and mount on it. So now I'm irritated and start paying attention to the rifles. For the record, this is supposed to be a US infantry outfit in the Ardennes in December of 44 at the start of the battle of the Bulge. They are carrying British No 4 rifles and I swear I saw one with a No III but it was so fast I wasn't sure.

Back to the sniper rifle. He touches the scope with the front of his helmet and the scope moved about half an inch. Did this twice. He then is operating the bolt after each shot. That was it, I turned it off.

Seems I can no longer enjoy mindless military violence.

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