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Posted: 4/2/2013 5:33:11 PM EDT
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http://englishrussia.com/2012/02/14/the-museum-of-tula-arms/#more-92171 |
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Those are apparently non-firing movie props. A year or so ago I first saw that pic (and other of the same display), and someone translated the sign by the display and said it said they were movie props. |
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Those are apparently non-firing movie props. A year or so ago I first saw that pic (and other of the same display), and someone translated the sign by the display and said it said they were movie props. I wouldn't have guessed that. This is the Tula museum for those who don't want to visit the link |
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Those are apparently non-firing movie props. A year or so ago I first saw that pic (and other of the same display), and someone translated the sign by the display and said it said they were movie props. I wouldn't have guessed that. This is the Tula museum for those who don't want to visit the link Yeah, same here. There is another display of apparent props that includes some really neat looking bullpups made of bakelite. Sort of like the one in the bottom of that pic. |
| Who knows, the bullpups in the pic I'm remembering were similar to these, if not the same things. http://world.guns.ru/assault/rus/korobov-tkb-022-e.html |
| I do not believe that pic above is of movie props. I'm almost positive those are experimental models that never made it to production. The Russians have lost of variants on designs for military small arms over the years that got past the drawing board but never made it to production for various reasons. The Izhmash factory did a lot of the same. If you've ever picked up a book on the history of Russian small arms or Kalashnikovs they tend to have chapters on some of the ones that didn't make it to the field. I've seen some pretty strange concepts that they've come up with over the years. Some of them sounded like good ideas in theory, some of them, not so much. |
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