Weapon and Gear Customization Durring Wartimes

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>>34565721

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>>34565721
and another

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and some trench art

>>34565741
Thats actually really badass

>>34565758
Gotta keep the rifle comfy

>>34565796
Get guard in here. Need to give ak a fluffy sweater

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Bump

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I collect trench art, mostly artillery shells.

I find it truly fascinating trying to imagine the hell the artist may have been going through and how this may have helped.

>Pic related, a couple of my peices

>>34566458
Can you post more?

Looks pretty cool

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>>34566541
Here's a couple of shells I picked up at a market in Paris a few years ago.

It'd be great if any anons can tell me more about the shells themselves

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>>34566630
Bottom of shell with the bird.

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>>34566630
>>34566647
Bottom of the other one. It's smaller diameter than the bird one, but the bottom is pretty marked up from whatever the soldier was hammering it on so I'm not sure about the date and caliber

>>34566458
>>34566630
What size are they? Do you have something for scale?

>>34566723
12" scale rule and 5.56 for scale
Shell on far right is about 3 3/8" diameter at the rim

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>>34566825
Pic

>>34566458
Pretty badass anon...

>>34566647
105mm?

Been a while, i'll go dig out a 105 casing and check

>>34572453
my only guess is 105, there were a few french guns in that calibre around that time. Some others in 155 may have had casings made at the time as well, but I don't think the diameter is right.

>>34566458
how the fuck did they make the one on the left?

>>34566630
>Paris
>World War 1
Report to Ian immediately!

>>34572489
insert shell halfway into anus, clench sphincter muscles, remove and wash thoroughly

>>34565794
No it's not you queer.

>>34565784
Underrated/well done.

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>>34565721

>>34572587
going of homes, pidorusski blyat

>>34565758
>tfw you will never have a wife this supportive

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>>34566347
>EU force
>black guy
Checks out

>>34565784
thats sweet, 22nd Btn CEF Canadian French (Van Doos) its carved with all of the battalions battle honors up to that point.

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>>34572543
If you like WWI, you'd really like the museum they have at the West Point academy. Here's the cannon that fired the first American shot of WWI

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>>34575412

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M2 carbine

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>>34576787
wrong image, but hey it a American 180 in Rhodesia. you cant be mad.

>>34565784
Made me sad. Skilled wood carvers like this probably died by the hundreds in that war.

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>>34577301

>>34565758
Fagpull

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>>34576774
>Not wanting to carry 20 pounds of fragile batteries to power your rudimentary night vision sight to snipe Japs

>>34577072
Wtf is that?

>>34578767

It looks like he took a pistol from or machine gun grip and bolted it to the rifle as a T grip.

Then he welded two magazines together to form one super mag