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    Some Pre WW1 Items I picked up yesterday.




















    And what is the 1909 artillery about?
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    Would that be... "The coin that stopped a bullet going through Onkel Fritzi's heart"?

    ..or a coin propped up at the end of the trench and shot at to create a memento guaranteed to rot the knicker elastic of any girl a squaddie decided to make a move on?

    Cynic.... moi?

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    Agree with the cynic.

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    It's surprising what things are supposed to have stopped a bullet a saved a soldier's life.

    Pocket Bible saved life of WWI soldier Leonard Knight | Daily Mail Online

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    Not too surprising.
    I remember at a 300m shooting competition I was having problems sighting in a club rifle. Was driving me crazy until the markers in the butts radioed that all my bullets were key-holing.
    Then I raised the sights a considerable amount until I was rewarded with nice clean holes in the center of the target.
    My first rounds were grazing the top of the target bunkers then impacting the target sideways.

    Whoever used that rifle before me must have been using a centerhold as his aimpoint whereas I used a sub 6 Black hold with the post front sight. That rifle did not have a front ring sight.

    We brought our own target frames to that particular range and they were a bit shorter than what that range used and needed. Bottom of target frames slightly below line of sight from 300m position.
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