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Post by sigurdur on Jan 12, 2020 23:27:18 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jan 13, 2020 0:22:24 GMT
Maybe he had amnesia; he did seem to forget things, like which party he belonged to.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 13, 2020 0:52:48 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 13, 2020 3:05:07 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 13, 2020 11:35:21 GMT
Since the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday fires, only a third of the area earmarked for hazard reduction burns has been cleared and former CSIRO bushfire expert Phil Cheney says there have been “excuses… and Pseudo-science to justify this”. "I Cheered When the Bushfire Came
With the eastern seaboard currently ravaged by bushfires, what sort of an idiot would actually cheer when one worked its way down the peninsular where he lived? I did, and there were a lot of others who did the same. To understand why, we must go back over more than a year when a winter bushfire got going to the west of the town. It did for us what the volunteer firies couldn’t: it got rid of the ground fuel with minimal canopy scorch. No lives or property were lost. Had this ‘good’ bushfire not happened, the peninsular would have been obliterated this summer when a firestorm with winds gusting to 100kph came our way. No fire fuel meant that it burned and went out. Simple as that. Today, as thousands of Australians confront the bushfire threat, we on the Tilligerry peninsular are safe. With only one year of fuel build-up we have little to worry about."More here: quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2020/01/i-cheered-when-the-bushfire-came/
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 14, 2020 11:12:52 GMT
"Blue Mountains resident fought for permission to hazard reduction burn for two and a half years
A property owner in fire-ravaged NSW claims he may have been able to save his property if he had been given approval to undertake controlled burning. Martin Tebbutt's farm in Bilpin was completely charred when the enormous Gospers Mountain blaze ripped through the area on December 21 last year. He said for two-and-a-half years he tried to get permission to clear his land to create a fire break and build a fence so he could run his cattle but was met with roadblocks."www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-fires-blue-mountains-resident-fought-to-back-burn-property-for-two-years/3a406031-5c14-47f9-b5aa-722872fae145
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 14, 2020 11:54:15 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 14, 2020 13:07:22 GMT
You just cannot please some people ..... "Canals in Venice run DRY as 'exceptional' low tides drain the city just two months after near-record floods submerged it
Venice experienced its highest water levels in more than 50 years in November The floods caused more than a billion euros of damage and ravaged the city Now, the canals are almost dry, leaving gondolas and boats stranded in the mud "www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7883939/Canals-Venice-left-dry-low-tides.html
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 14, 2020 18:19:12 GMT
Interesting story Missouri will appreciate it. "According to one story among the many that comprise the Häyhä legend, during his Civil Guard training, he once hit a target 16 times from 500 feet away in just one minute. “This was an unbelievable accomplishment with a bolt action rifle, considering that each cartridge had to be manually fed with a fixed magazine that held together five cartridges,”narratively.com/the-deadliest-marksmans-cold-brave-stand/I think they mean the fixed magazine had to be fed manually using a 5 cartridge 'clip' - Like the Lee Enfield .303
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Post by blustnmtn on Jan 15, 2020 1:02:16 GMT
The Mosin Nagant rifle does use stripper clips. I would like to know his shooting position for that feat as well as what the target was. I don’t doubt that he did it. “Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”.
(Reportedly, when he was once asked how he became such an outstanding sniper, Häyhä simply replied, “Practice.”)
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 15, 2020 3:08:49 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 15, 2020 3:29:22 GMT
Interesting story Missouri will appreciate it. "According to one story among the many that comprise the Häyhä legend, during his Civil Guard training, he once hit a target 16 times from 500 feet away in just one minute. “This was an unbelievable accomplishment with a bolt action rifle, considering that each cartridge had to be manually fed with a fixed magazine that held together five cartridges,”narratively.com/the-deadliest-marksmans-cold-brave-stand/I think they mean the fixed magazine had to be fed manually using a 5 cartridge 'clip' - Like the Lee Enfield .303 Back in the days when ex-Soviet Generals were selling off bunker contents to meet living expenses, I picked up a sweet, lightly used Mosin Nagent stamped 1939 in a sporting goods store in Flagstaff, AZ for $29.95. Nice rifle.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 15, 2020 4:33:13 GMT
Interesting story Missouri will appreciate it. "According to one story among the many that comprise the Häyhä legend, during his Civil Guard training, he once hit a target 16 times from 500 feet away in just one minute. “This was an unbelievable accomplishment with a bolt action rifle, considering that each cartridge had to be manually fed with a fixed magazine that held together five cartridges,”narratively.com/the-deadliest-marksmans-cold-brave-stand/I think they mean the fixed magazine had to be fed manually using a 5 cartridge 'clip' - Like the Lee Enfield .303 Back in the days when ex-Soviet Generals were selling off bunker contents to meet living expenses, I picked up a sweet, lightly used Mosin Nagent stamped 1939 in a sporting goods store in Flagstaff, AZ for $29.95. Nice rifle. There are some old rifles that I used mmmble years ago, that I would really like to have now. The old Lee Enfield .303 (I just missed having a personal rifle issue and locked to my bed and instead had access to a squadron armoury 7.62 SLR I first started shooting with a BSA Martini Henry .22 in my school shooting range - in South London! I would think that one of those in good condition would be worth a lot.
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Post by Ratty on Jan 15, 2020 6:35:03 GMT
{ Snip } Back in the days when ex-Soviet Generals were selling off bunker contents to meet living expenses, I picked up a sweet, lightly used Mosin Nagent stamped 1939 in a sporting goods store in Flagstaff, AZ for $29.95. Nice rifle. Did you check it for listening devices?
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 15, 2020 7:00:08 GMT
{ Snip } Back in the days when ex-Soviet Generals were selling off bunker contents to meet living expenses, I picked up a sweet, lightly used Mosin Nagent stamped 1939 in a sporting goods store in Flagstaff, AZ for $29.95. Nice rifle. Did you check it for listening devices? It used to send out little squeeks occasionally ... but I "muzzled" it.
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