Originally Posted by Norton
But they looked way much cooler.
More of these pictures from the Bundeswehr forerunners, the Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS),
http://www.militaryfirearm.com/Forum...l=1#post257278
FN FAL/SLR
CETME/G3
SIG 510 (Sturmgewehr 57)
SIG 542
M14/BM59
But they looked way much cooler.
More of these pictures from the Bundeswehr forerunners, the Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS),
http://www.militaryfirearm.com/Forum...l=1#post257278
Der Lauf schießt, der Schaft trifft! ~ The barrel shoots, the stock make the hit!
Old German adage.
Great photo, he looks like a WW 2 troop with a 1950s rifle.
I have that shelter half he is wearing, with a set with poles. Four of them make a good sized tent. It is Austrian marked 1959. solid poles huge thick tent pegs.
When the cold war ended, the war surplus gods smiled on Norton. There was a flood of West German, Dutch, Belgian mess kits, tents bags, stoves and of course rifles.
Good thing that Cold War ending
We thought about it for a long time, "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union
M14
Molon Labe
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