NitroX
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| 12/02/19 01:33 AM |
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Re: Africa vintage pic thread
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just see it now that this two pics make an interesting pair
french and german service carbine
it seems they had some value with the short length
Experience in thick equatorial jungles. Or in thorn bush jesse pretty much anywhere in Africa.
Also perhaps those very long rifle barrels on military rifles were perhaps becoming a thing of the past in the start of the Twentieth Century colonial era. IMO a left over from the long BP rifles and muzzle loaders of the past.