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Originally Posted By: Utah Shotgunner
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Back in AFG? You hadn't had enough? Looks like you are a contractor this time?


Back here since NOV. not as a contractor but as an LTC advising an ANCOP Kandak (BN) in northern Afghanistan.


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The best gun I saw in Afgahnistan was a Webley Scott BLE in decent shape.

In Iraq I got a chance to hold an Holland and Holland SLE with 12 gauge, 28 gauge (I think), and Double Rifle Barrels with beautiful germanic engraving. It was the only time I have ever been tempted in my career. It went to the shoulder beautifully. Today I believe it is in a display case at the III Corps HQ.


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he proudly proclaimed to me that he used it every year for birds.and he produced shells and offered me the opportunity to shoot it. Needless to say, I politely declined.


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Well, that's not Russian.

I've seen pics of a shotgun made by an "Indian Ordinance Factory" after the independence, and it looked something like that (only a bit better made). So it looks Indian (Pakistani) to me, too.

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Just proves how spoiled we've all gotten. I'd shoot it. I'd like to see shotgunning return to its roots. A tube of any sort stuffed with a handful of gunpowder and anything hard and sharp that can fly. No more of this worrying about choke tubes and drop at comb and whether the gun weighs 1/2 ounce too much. That's sissy shootin'. When that Afghan takes to the field, there's no telling if the gun will take his life or that of a bird. Only then can we truly call it hunting. Why, I'll bet that guy doesn't even squat to pee.

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Probably made in Dara Adam Khel a while back south of Peshawar about 40 minutes, long famous for its arms manufacture.

There's a story about a Brit in the 19th century who had them make a copy of his Holland and Holland double. Beautiful copy; but later when he showed the guns to the guys at Holland and Holland in England they asked him where the original was....

This was a tale that circulated when I was working in Afghanistan in the 60's; didn't get to Dara to shoot a few of the guns until the mid 90's, however.

Actually, most Afghans do squat to pee...at least the ones on our street in Kabul.

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Originally Posted By: Cedar Creek Sam


Actually, most Afghans do squat to pee...at least the ones on our street in Kabul.


They still do!!!


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