Practice it
Remember this pic from last month?I still haven't figured out what sort of ATR it is, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
But, thinking about the caption subtext, I realized that I have a Ruger 10/22 in the back of the gun safe that not everybody has -- a .22 Magnum!
When I'm too old to stomp through the prickly pear thickets, this will become my winter bunny-hunting piece.
20-mm Solothurn...close. Could be a cigar there.
Firehand wins a cigar! It's an Finnish Lahti L-39 ATR.Photo from Wiki.
posted by Cowboy Blob @ 6:13 PM
8 Comments:
At 9:58 PM,
catfish said…
here's my guess on the ATR - a 20mm Solothurn.
At 11:11 PM,
Firehand said…
I think it's a Lahti, Finnish 20mm anti-tank rifle
At 1:17 AM,
AnarchAngel said…
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At 9:52 AM,
shooter said…
So that's what they look like. Damn, I bet that is a blast (pun intended) to shoot!
At 12:11 PM,
Anonymous said…
Please use kbarrett or just my first name when refering to me online.
I would like to avoid becoming as un-employable as KdT.
And yes, I do own a lahti.
At 12:50 PM,
Cowboy Blob said…
Fixtit
At 12:25 PM,
Anonymous said…
Tanx....
At 10:33 PM,
Rivrdog said…
For you history buffs that have archived your REALLY old copies of the Rifleman, go back to the late 50's-early 60's, and turn to the last page in the mag, where the milsurp sales outfit from Fairfax, VA used to always have a page.
You will find these Lahtis on sale (pre-GCA68) for $195, and ball ammo for $0.95/round.
Now, in the early 60's, that $195 represented quite a lot of moolah...my wage as a Western Union (CTA Union wage) Delivery Boy was $1.10/hr, and it was considered a good living wage. That meant over a month's pay for the weapon, and about an hour's pay (after-tax pay) per round.
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