Soviet Army WWII, Third Shock Army snipers with Mosin-Nagants.
775 confirmed kills.
Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
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Movie….”Enemy at the Gates”……… 🙂
That one at the right in the front row looks like she’d enjoy shooting you.
Some of them are pretty hot.
Close to 70 years ago. Today, not so much.
Not that one on the right in the first row.
Hey, I’ve got one of those… (the Mosin sniper variant that is)
I see pictures like that in history books (or here at Miguel’s so often) and always wonder about the background of the participants. According to his biography, Zaitsev was a country boy (Audie Murphy, Carlos Hathcock, anyone?) raised by his grandfather, who was a hunter-trapper.
So I see this and wonder how many were raised hunting and farming and planting spuds and scything the hay to feed their animals.
And, yup, Robert, some of them are pretty hot even by today’s standards.
All of them would be a pretty close estimate.
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