
Most people don’t know this but the most dangerous African animal isn’t the lion, a lazy cat, or the leopard, or even the elephant, which can get drunk and reckless on the fermented berry of the marula tree, but the hippo, a foul tempered brute that can bite chunks out of a truck cab. I used mostly a custom, scoped Mannlicher that was given to me by someone who saw that without the scope I was a danger more to my party than to the bad guys trying to take our skins, and I used it only as often as my bearer advised me was necessary to impress on the men that I could and would use it, And I had an “elephant rifle”, a Weatherby Magnum, for heavier stuff. I’m afraid I wasn’t really a gun collector. I spent one college vacation clearing the crocodiles out of an African river. It is still produced to this day by Smith & Wesson in both.

Indeed, only recently have some national police departments discontinued their use and, yes, believe it or not Wikipedia still lists the PPK variant as being in service at MI6.Ī third variant, the PPK/S, mates the larger PP frame to the smaller PPK slide and barrel, and has been exceedingly popular in this country since its inception in 1968 (in response to the ill-conceived and poorly written Gun Control Act of that year). What is lesser known is that the PPK, originally produced in 1931, was in turn a redesigned, more compact version of the 1929 Walther PP, and that the Walther PP was one of the most popular police weapons ever produced. are familiar with the German Walther PPK - a very compact, highly concealable handgun originally designed around the. Springfield Model 18 Rifles, Model 1873 Shotgun, Model 1903 Rifle, 1903A3 by Smith Corona Co.Because of the popularity of a certain fictional English spy, many people in the U.S.22, New Departure Safety Hammerless, Ladysmith 1902-1911+ Smith & Wesson - Single Action Pistols, First Model.
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