Trench garble.

[steelbuttplate]

Just caught a Chinese army rifle, maybe an Albanian one ? Anyone make out any of the gobbledygook on it , 1992 and.....???? OK, ELBASAN is the 3rd largest city in Albania. Some knuckle draggin grunt puke soldier boy must have liked it there.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Last bunch did come in from the Balkans if I recall. After they fell out with the Soviets the Albanians turned to China for weapons, and it seems supervision was lax at best given how many of these turn up with carvings on the wood. Given how things go in that neck of the woods the carver is likely ethnically cleansed, and rotting in a mass grave someplace, such lovely people.

[ffuries]

I've got one of those Albanian rifles, they sure do ooze history, oh and grease........

https://www.russian-mosin-nagant-forum. ... 56#p357795

[steelbuttplate]

I've got one of those Albanian rifles, they sure do ooze history, oh and grease........

https://www.russian-mosin-nagant-forum. ... 56#p357795

Enough grease to do a '59 GMC. Mine smoked like a tar kiln the first 6-8 rounds this morning. Smells like victory.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Smells like a Detroit Diesel firing up on a cold morning if you stick your head over the stack. Bag that stock and sweat it out in the sun, fumes probably cause cancer, cheap commie grease from factory in Pripyat Ukraine.

[steelbuttplate]

I smoked a few SKS, but didn't inhale.

[steelbuttplate]

I've got one of those Albanian rifles, they sure do ooze history, oh and grease........

https://www.russian-mosin-nagant-forum. ... 56#p357795

These were probably in the Kosovo war ?

[ffuries]

I've got one of those Albanian rifles, they sure do ooze history, oh and grease........

https://www.russian-mosin-nagant-forum. ... 56#p357795

These were probably in the Kosovo war ?

Never know.........

[SA1911a1]

Where ever they came from, it was a service that had no discipline. If I had defaced my piece like that, I would still be in the galley cleaning garbage cans, if not in Portsmouth Prison making little rocks out of big ones.

I remember one incident where a buddy of mine was working on the bridge while we were underway. The old man handed the kid his empty coffee cup with the comment, "here, do something with this." The kid steps out of the space, and tosses the coffee cup into the Atlantic. He stepped back in and the captain did a double take, and asked what he had done with the mug. My buddy answered honestly and they court martialed him for destroying government property and disobeying a direct order. The threw the whole library at him.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Where ever they came from, it was a service that had no discipline. If I had defaced my piece like that, I would still be in the galley cleaning garbage cans, if not in Portsmouth Prison making little rocks out of big ones.

I remember one incident where a buddy of mine was working on the bridge while we were underway. The old man handed the kid his empty coffee cup with the comment, "here, do something with this." The kid steps out of the space, and tosses the coffee cup into the Atlantic. He stepped back in and the captain did a double take, and asked what he had done with the mug. My buddy answered honestly and they court martialed him for destroying government property and disobeying a direct order. The threw the whole library at him.

Tossed the Old Man's cup over the side? I didn't know the Navy got any of McNamara's Morons, is he out of the brig yet?

[steelbuttplate]

I've got one of those Albanian rifles, they sure do ooze history, oh and grease........

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=25044&p=357795&hil ... 56#p357795

These were probably in the Kosovo war ?

Never know.........

I got to looking at this stock again. The dot writing says "end (ind) G 9" and " ind G 7". How would that apply to which war ?