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Be safe out there (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Be safe out there

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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

With a bayonet fixed to a rifle that won't exist for nearly a century after his death

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Mfw rifled barrel with cartridge

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you need a rifled barrel to hit your target, you're just a bad shot. Back in my day, we used to shoot cans with our smoothbores from five miles away, in the snow, up a hill, and with 69mph side winds.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Smoothbores? You had it easy. With our 180-degree roughbores we had to be extremely good at dodging to not kill ourselves every time we used them. Now those weapons sorted the men out from the boys.

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