The Three Lives Of A Schmidt-Rubin K00/11
Bloke on the Range
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A philosophical episode, this one - on the many lives lived by milsurp rifles. This one is a Schmidt-Rubin K00/11, a K11 converted from an earlier model 1900 short rifle. The rifle lived a number of lives, and we have a bit of the human history behind the last one.
I promised someone I'd do this, so here it is.
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