Interview with Nicole Wiley: German .22 Training Rifles
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While I was visiting Galesburg, I had the pleasure of meeting Nicole Wiley. She is working on organizing a massive reference book on German .22 training rifles (like the Sportmodell and KKW), and was kind enough to give me a tour of Robert Simpson's collection of these guns. It was a very interesting look into another corner of the gun world that many people aren't familiar with.
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