Comments on: Prewar Germany went in for shooting https://www.isegoria.net/2019/03/prewar-germany-went-in-for-shooting/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2019/03/prewar-germany-went-in-for-shooting/comment-page-1/#comment-2758434 Graham Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:49:52 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44638#comment-2758434 Ah, apparently he started out with really old surplus, a single shot Berdan which predated the Mosin Nagant. Something from the Krag/Martini/Snider/Chassepot/Gras/Dreyse/early Mauser era of rifles.

And invented by an American. I had never even heard of this rifle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berdan_rifle

]]> By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2019/03/prewar-germany-went-in-for-shooting/comment-page-1/#comment-2758432 Graham Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:45:43 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44638#comment-2758432 I don’t know what the actual laws were, but various memoirs and narrative history accounts down the years seem to suggest there were a surprisingly large amount of firearms in private hands in both Germany and the USSR in the run up to the war.

Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev supposedly learned his skills from his father/uncle/grandfather or some such kinsman, out on the hunt in Siberia both using military surplus rifles. I wonder what registration system they had in place…

]]> By: Lu An Li https://www.isegoria.net/2019/03/prewar-germany-went-in-for-shooting/comment-page-1/#comment-2758387 Lu An Li Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:44:29 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44638#comment-2758387 Airsoft, paintball and laser tag in the USA are modern versions of the old German sport shooting.

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