This is strictly speaking true, the Mosin-Nagant used by H?yh? was a Finnish national service variant called the pystykorva or "upright ears" because of the extended front sights, but in all other respects it's the same rifle as the model-91/30 Mosin-Nagant used by the Red Army (except the barrel would have probably been Swiss or German, and parts of the stock which were Finnish-made.) Judging by the OP's picture, it's even the shorter carbine variant favored by H?yh? because of his slight frame.


It's my experience that military people spout out some of the worst cliches themselves, though it's mostly self-referential tongue-in-cheek.

I think it's become sort of a life-imitating-art-imitating-life kind of thing.


Actually, it's more to do with getting Johnny McCivilian to learn to respect his rifle like it was his girlfriend, because if the [censored] hits the fan and your weapon fails because you didn't maintain it properly, people die. You live with it, sleep with it, [censored] with it, and generally are never more than one dive's-length away from taking up arms. Nothing to do with desensitization (we have TV for that) and everything to do with learning the responsibility of being a soldier.

I think that's more than likely the case, especially as I can't remember the last war film the UK produced. I have seen the term creeping into British TV programmes in recent years though. Unhelpfully, I can't actually remember the local terminology for loading and readying weapons. :/

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. I've definitely heard plenty of soldiers say in the Gung-ho cliched voice "Locked and loaded," plenty of times.


Is it "Activated" and "Deactivated"? I know I've heard some Brits use those, to describe if the gun's loaded or not.

No, that's used to refer to whether the gun's live or has been permanently disabled, which for most people is the only legal way to collect them these days. We own a few deactivated weapons but no live ones. For the record, deactivated weapons can't be practically reactivated, whatever the newspapers might say: the job they do on them is pretty thorough.

That's not necessarily true. While states like New York, Massachusetts and California have extraordinarily strict gun laws, it is still possible to own operational firearms. I'm not as familiar with California and Massachusetts, but in New York the rifle/shotgun law is pretty relaxed; I'm fairly sure that the only limitation is a wait period for a few days after purchase. Handguns are virtually impossible to get in the state, however, unless you have a special permit (which is virtually impossible to get unless you know someone or are emplyed in a high-status position).

Either way, most states don't place strict limitations on long guns, and many states have relaxed handgun laws. In Virginia, no special permit is required to purchase a handgun. There may be a short wait period, but as fair as I know it's almost as lax as extreme-south states or select northern states (Maine, New Hampshire etc.).

I don't live in the US.

Touche .

I hate you so much(not really). I have been looking a rifle like that forever. They had one at the AAEFES post exchange one day for $100 and it was gone when I went back later that day. I was very sad.

Anyways you should name it Envy.

There's a reason that those rifles are only $100...there are a ton of them. Go to any gun show and you'll see a bunch of them.

You kidding me.. That's over five times the amount you'd have to pay for a solid BB-gun here.. :/

How about Mule? Because a Nagant kicks like one and the bolt is as stubborn as one.

What the...?

Shukhov sounds good.

The 7.62 collarbone breaker... v2.0
i shot one sitting without thinking once... Never again...
On the bright side, i shot an original 1942 K98K mauser. That was fun.

Sasha?

EDIT: Or how about you'll shoot your eye out.

Ol' Painless

The phrase "Gun Shop" sounds so alien to me you wouldn't believe

EvilFish




If a gun was named after me, I'd die happy.

forget my Idea, ^this, but only if you promise to stop getting on BGSF inebriated...

4 pages and only one Vera post? I'm disappointed...

The sydney sleeper. Go go go.

Boomstick!!!!

There's one in my town.

Skullmasher

Either both of you weren't holding it tight enough against your shoulder, which is very important in not bruising your shoulder or injury in general, or the ammo you shot was higher than the standard (and what was used in WW2), 148/150 gr. bullet. If you hold it properly, and use the right ammo, they don't kick so hard.