Re: Thinking about a Ural

 
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heh, go for it. I haven't the dosh at the moment or I'd get one. Year
round riding is a good thing. 8^) With my FUN FSVOF weather it would
be a blessing to have one. As for upgunning a patrol. Why not get you
class 3 license and have fun.

Hard part in my mind would be scoring the appropriate RPK LMG. It's
nice piece of kit and would be more apporpriate on a patrol than say
either and M60 or M240. Though the german MG42 would be a good
alternate to the M60 imho. 8^) The M2 while sweet would shred the
sidecar mounts in short order...
--
Keith

 Schiffner wrote:

 > As for upgunning a patrol. Why not get you class 3 license and have fun.

I don't know what "class 3 license" means in your jurisdiction, but
here in British Columbia it would let me drive a mobile truck crane
and a few other heavy rigs.

 > Hard part in my mind would be scoring the appropriate RPK LMG.

Although I was an Army brat I didn't inherit much knowledge of weapons
and ordnance. My dad was in the Royal Canadian Artillery and would have
been deployed to Japan if WW2 hadn't ended.

So he was still at CFB Shilo, Manitoba on VJ Day. The troops held
a spontaneous celebration of the event by shooting holes in the two
water towers.

One of them was metal and soon dribbled out all its water. Must have
looked like Jim Carrey in _The Mask_. The other was made of wood,
which swelled up around the bullet holes and closed them.
(I've always wondered if this info would be useful some day,
but not so far).

SQ

 Schiffner wrote:

 > Hard part in my mind would be scoring the appropriate RPK LMG.

Further to my last: once I was a survey rodman and the crew chief
had also been at Camp Shilo. His company was out on some training
exercise in rubber boats, and some guy decided he wanted to have
his Bren gun after the war. So he smeared the thing in grease and
wrapped it a rubber sheet and buried it in the swamp. Later he told
his CO that he'd dropped it into deep water by accident.

Well apparently it's still there. Seems he'd overlooked the fact that
civilians can't just go wandering about on a Canadian Forces Base
digging things out of swamps. Also after the passage of time it gets
hard to recall which dead tree out of thousands sticking out of
the water is the right landmark.

SQ

 On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:13:09 -0700, Sean_Q_ wrote:


Gee, I was looking for a thread to hijack.

Did you know that broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower,
collards, kale, and kohlrabi (in alphabetical order) are all the same
species (Brassica oleracea)?  I did not know that!

That tidbit does sort of fit in with the Russian theme, though,
doesn't it?

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I did not know that.
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Learn something every day.
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Keith