Need to get this off my chest?

[ronterry]

Why in SAM **** did the Russians take captured K98's, daaa completely disassemble them daaa, dunk them in there RED crappy crap soup daaa, and than reassemble them from the pile of bolts and parts they made taking them apart daaaaaa.

I bet many a German gunsmiths shot themselves in the head, when they found out the Russian did to those absolute pieces of HAND fitted art!!!

For the world of me, I can not rationalize the stupidity of this procedure?

Someone please give me a reason, why I shouldn't hate the Russians even more than I already do!!!

[MullahElRon]

Hey, they left us a buncha matching numbered Mosins. It was probably a form of gun rape mutilation. Firearms ethnic cleansing.

[CZ93X62]

Ron--

Russia swapped out S&W #3s for Nagant revolvers, and their fighter aircraft can safely land in corn fields. They's a little different.

[JW6108]

They also took delivery on 290,000+ Winchester 95's in 7.62x54Rmm.

Don't you wish they could "find" a few thousand of those to send over here?

[ronterry]

OK so what I understand so far, is the Russians are retarded, not as bad as are current government but pretty retarded...

[MullahElRon]

Actually, they provided the template for our current government system. Nice knowing how it's gonna work out.

[Boge]

Because the smart Germans realized, as did the Soviets later, that the future was in the Sturmgewehr system. Bolt actions became Stone Age technology circa Nov. 1942 when the Germans first fielded the MKb 42(H) on the Russian Front. The Russians feverishly worked on a system like this after the war as it was an incredible advancement in firepower.

After the war bolt actions were relegated to snipers and non-front line troops as well as Third World exports.

[MakeMineaP99]

Bolt guns were obsolete as a general issue arm once the Garand was formally adopted by the Ord. dept for general issue.

[ronterry]

Most nations didn't go; "Hey dude, check it! Lets take all are guns apart, and put them all back together in the wrong order!" and than store them for forty years?

[Boge]

Bolt guns were obsolete as a general issue arm once the Garand was formally adopted by the Ord. dept for general issue.

And the SVT-40.

[MakeMineaP99]

You're spoiling my centrist fun, Boge! ;)

[creekwalker]

Hey! The US did the same thing on arsenal rebuilds of the 03 Springfield's M1 Garand's, 1911's etc. Just as with the K-98 these weapons were made for part's interchangeability. Matching serial number's after arsenal rebuilds has never been a big deal because arsenals have no concerns pertaining to collectability.

The Russian's took all of these weapon's after they rebuilt them, ratholed them away for lomg term storage and over time forgot about a lot of them. Think of all of those new, never fired 1928 Thompson's we gave them that they sold back to us with torch cut recievers.