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June 26, 2012, 07:20 PM | #26 |
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June 26, 2012, 08:06 PM | #27 |
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There is an interesting story about those Israeli Mausers and the 6-day war. Before the war began Israel had purchased FN-FAL's to replace the mixed bag of mostly 98 Mausers in their arsenals. Their troops rode into battle on the tanks, and in the process the new rifles became so full of dirt and sand that when the fighting started the FAL's fired - once. Literally in the dark of night, the new rifles were pulled back and front line troops issued 98 Mausers, which went bang and didn't seem to care about little details like sand and dirt.
Then came the spin. The FAL's were cleaned up and issued to rear-area troops; the press was told that now Israel now had so many first line automatic rifles that they could even issue them to rear area soldiers. It was years before anyone outside the Israeli and U.S. military caught on. Jim |
June 26, 2012, 09:52 PM | #28 |
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And where did you get that?
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June 27, 2012, 11:03 AM | #29 |
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I'd also like to see a source of that.
If such a thing happened a more likely explanation was that training on maintenance was not yet to where it should be and they simply went back to what the troops were familiar with.
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June 27, 2012, 11:39 AM | #30 |
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Israel started rebarrelling the Mausers in the mid-1950s, the same time they started purchasing (and then producing) the FAL rifle. It was not new in 1967, and I doubt would have been as problematic as that story suggests.
Now, if you had said 1956, there might have been a tiny bit more possible meat to the story. |
June 28, 2012, 06:25 PM | #31 |
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Too bad the OP's Mauser doesnt have a Star of David Crest on it. If so it knocks up the value quite a bit on the Mauser
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June 29, 2012, 02:39 AM | #32 |
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Do jewish guns work on the sabbath?
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July 5, 2012, 09:41 PM | #34 |
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I have been eye balling those 7.62 kar98s but in my findings they have all been beat to hell.
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