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Posted: 9/2/2004 8:33:10 PM EDT
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:33:39 PM EDT
[#1]
Good Stuff
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:33:53 PM EDT
[#2]
Great photos
Thanks
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:35:53 PM EDT
[#3]
Man, those Russians look like WWII soldiers only carrying AKs.
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:41:24 PM EDT
[#4]
Great Pics Again Lumpy
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:44:50 PM EDT
[#5]


OH MY GOD, its the weird guy at the gunshow who was telling me about his Sniper SKS With The Rare Russian Scope... he really IS an "operator" for the Ossetian special forces!


But seriously, wtf?  Please tell me that guy is an observer only and isn't being counted on to fire accurate shots into a hostage filled environment with that thing.  Even the wooden stocked Saiga is better than trying to use an SKS for a sniper's weapon!
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:47:59 PM EDT
[#6]
Hey Kerry, look!

A "huntin' rifle"!

Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:48:42 PM EDT
[#7]
Everybody and their brother has a rifle pointed at that school building.
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:49:10 PM EDT
[#8]
thanks alot lumpy! good stuff as always!
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:50:26 PM EDT
[#9]
You find the best photos.
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:52:52 PM EDT
[#10]


[soimarriedanaxemurderer]That boy's head looks like an orange on a toothpick[/soimarriedanaxemurderer]
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:56:34 PM EDT
[#11]

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[soimarriedanaxemurderer]That boy's head looks like an orange on a toothpick[/soimarriedanaxemurderer]



Naw, he's just a spaceball.

Cut him some slack already!!!.....

Chris
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 8:59:39 PM EDT
[#12]


Magazine inserterd, finger on the trigger and muzzle sweeping everyone...geeze doesn't anyone know proper gun handling?

Edited to add: Fuck I wasted my 3K post on this, no offense Lumpy, I love these posts, just didn't mean on using the big 3 K post on this.
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 9:11:22 PM EDT
[#13]

Quoted:
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Magazine inserterd, finger on the trigger and muzzle sweeping everyone...geeze doesn't anyone know proper gun handling?
.


i sure hope not!
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 9:26:25 PM EDT
[#14]



"I'm Larry, and this is my brother Daryl, and this is my other brother Daryl."
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 9:39:57 PM EDT
[#15]
Whats with all the ZERO eye relief scopes ?
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 9:49:54 PM EDT
[#16]
Even though I connect at 26.4 (point to point phone system) it's always worth the wait for your pix Lumpy.
Thanks again.
M
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 9:52:30 PM EDT
[#17]

Quoted:
us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20040902/capt.sge.gav20.020904083623.photo00.default-384x254.jpg

Magazine inserterd, finger on the trigger and muzzle sweeping everyone...geeze doesn't anyone know proper gun handling?

Edited to add: Fuck I wasted my 3K post on this, no offense Lumpy, I love these posts, just didn't mean on using the big 3 K post on this.



It's not like post count matters worth a damn. Hell I've been coming here for 4 years now and I only recently broke 1000.

On topic, I never realized how many countries use the M16/AR15 series of weapons until I started viewing these threads.
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 9:55:12 PM EDT
[#18]



Someone please explain to me how one uses an RPG during a hostage rescue.
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 10:01:41 PM EDT
[#19]

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Someone please explain to me how one uses an RPG during a hostage rescue.



"We had to kill the hostages to save them"
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 10:06:54 PM EDT
[#20]
It looks like the door on this van has been hit.

Link Posted: 9/2/2004 10:18:18 PM EDT
[#21]


Since when have they been enlisting monkeys??
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 10:54:48 PM EDT
[#22]
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 11:11:39 PM EDT
[#23]

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It looks like the door on this van has been hit.

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ALL vehicles in NYC look like that, after a week or so.
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 11:29:53 PM EDT
[#24]
Link Posted: 9/2/2004 11:41:36 PM EDT
[#25]
Don't give those guys shit. If SHTF, they will be the first in to witness carnage involving children. I pity the poor bastages.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 12:15:34 AM EDT
[#26]
great pics lumpy
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 1:24:41 AM EDT
[#27]



BESLAN, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 2: A Russian soldier feels the strain of crisis during a siege around the school where some 350 hostages, most of them women and children, are being held by suspected Chechen militants on September 2, 2004, one day after the drama began in Belsan, Russia.. The terrorist attack in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia, near war-ravaged Chechnya in the Caucasus, was the third to hit Russia in eight days, raising questions about President Vladimir Putin's hardline Chechnya policy. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)



<Patton> I'll take russia in two weeks of fighting, with minimal casualties!!! </patton>


Link Posted: 9/3/2004 1:33:42 AM EDT
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: French Defence Minster Michele Alliot-Marie (R) is assisted by an armed guard as she steps down from a French Air Force aeroplane after arriving at Kabul International Airport, 02 September 2004. Alliot-Marie is set to stay in the Afghan capital for a few hours, during which time she will meet President Hamid Karzai and Afghan Defence Minister Mohammed Qassim Fahim. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)



thats an AUSSIE plane... note the Kangaroo on the plain... i know, i load the bastards.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 4:03:51 AM EDT
[#29]

Quoted:
us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20040902/capt.sge.gdk28.020904132746.photo02.default-384x255.jpg

OH MY GOD, its the weird guy at the gunshow who was telling me about his Sniper SKS With The Rare Russian Scope... he really IS an "operator" for the Ossetian special forces!


But seriously, wtf?  Please tell me that guy is an observer only and isn't being counted on to fire accurate shots into a hostage filled environment with that thing.  Even the wooden stocked Saiga is better than trying to use an SKS for a sniper's weapon!



He probably doesn't have any other good optics, he's a militia member... not Spetznaz.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 4:07:55 AM EDT
[#30]


I swear the guy driving the van is that jackass Chevy Chase.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 4:10:11 AM EDT
[#31]


Boy, Martha Stewart gets around.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 4:13:30 AM EDT
[#32]
Thanks Lumpy..  

Good stuff

FMO
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 4:15:24 AM EDT
[#33]
Cool
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 4:42:39 AM EDT
[#34]
SOmehow I missed this yeasterday.

Good job, as usual, Lumpy!
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 5:41:14 AM EDT
[#35]

Quoted:
Even though I connect at 26.4 (point to point phone system) it's always worth the wait for your pix Lumpy.
Thanks again.
M



Ditto!  But high speed is in my future...I think.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 5:41:22 AM EDT
[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: French Defence Minster Michele Alliot-Marie (R) is assisted by an armed guard as she steps down from a French Air Force aeroplane after arriving at Kabul International Airport, 02 September 2004. Alliot-Marie is set to stay in the Afghan capital for a few hours, during which time she will meet President Hamid Karzai and Afghan Defence Minister Mohammed Qassim Fahim. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)



thats an AUSSIE plane... note the Kangaroo on the plain... i know, i load the bastards.



Maybe the French have Kangaroos?
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 7:51:12 AM EDT
[#37]
How much do you want to bet that guy instructing with this finger on the trigger has a ND and blows off the head off one the guys.  Oh well.  One less.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 7:56:14 AM EDT
[#38]
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OWN3D
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 7:59:08 AM EDT
[#39]
Nice pics
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 8:02:23 AM EDT
[#40]


Anybody else see the immediate resemblance?



Edit: Original photo cropped and reversed.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 8:06:45 AM EDT
[#41]

Quoted:
I hope those russian soldiers kick some serious terrorist muslim ass.



+1,000 Kill them all--no prisoners, no wait slit their throats and cut their nads off on camera and ship that to Al-Jezeera.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 8:09:02 AM EDT
[#42]

Quoted:
Hey Kerry, look!

A "huntin' rifle"!

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It's a Saiga rifle.  They put a more classic hunting stock on the AK and sell it to the civilian market.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 8:19:23 AM EDT
[#43]

Quoted:
us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20040902/capt.sge.gdk28.020904132746.photo02.default-384x255.jpg

OH MY GOD, its the weird guy at the gunshow who was telling me about his Sniper SKS With The Rare Russian Scope... he really IS an "operator" for the Ossetian special forces!


But seriously, wtf?  Please tell me that guy is an observer only and isn't being counted on to fire accurate shots into a hostage filled environment with that thing.  Even the wooden stocked Saiga is better than trying to use an SKS for a sniper's weapon!




Dude, a good SKS can do 2" at 100 yards with decent sights or a scope.  It's not going to have the range capabilities of the Dragunov or a rifle firing a full power rifle cartridge, but in this standoff, I bet they're probably not more than 50 yards from the school.  The SKS would be a decent weapon, IMHO.  
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 8:30:43 AM EDT
[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20040902/capt.sge.gdk28.020904132746.photo02.default-384x255.jpg

OH MY GOD, its the weird guy at the gunshow who was telling me about his Sniper SKS With The Rare Russian Scope... he really IS an "operator" for the Ossetian special forces!


But seriously, wtf?  Please tell me that guy is an observer only and isn't being counted on to fire accurate shots into a hostage filled environment with that thing.  Even the wooden stocked Saiga is better than trying to use an SKS for a sniper's weapon!




Dude, a good SKS can do 2" at 100 yards with decent sights or a scope.  It's not going to have the range capabilities of the Dragunov or a rifle firing a full power rifle cartridge, but in this standoff, I bet they're probably not more than 50 yards from the school.  The SKS would be a decent weapon, IMHO.  



While a scoped Saiga is a better weapon for accuracy (especially in 5.56, 5.45, or .308),  we're looking at ranges of less than 150 yards here.  With a scope and a steady hand, the SKS would be more than adequate.  In fact, reading Mironov's account of Grozny, we learn that a single Chechen sniper with a scoped SKS killed over 30 Russian soldiers.
Link Posted: 9/3/2004 8:36:47 AM EDT
[#45]


Whats the guy squatting using?
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