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- From: bd474@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill McDonald)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: SKS Cleaning Rod
- Message-ID: <1k1ffrINNett@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:51:20 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In a previous article, I asked
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- #I was looking closely at an SKS the other day and wonder how the
- #designer intended the cleaning rod to be used. It's too short to go all the way
- #through the barrel, but has screw threads on one end, as if it was
- #supposed to be attached to another device/rod (perhaps a separate piece of
- #field gear?) to make a full-length cleaning tool.
- #Does anybody know how a soldier in the field made any good use of this
- #apparently too-short rod?
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- #McD
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- In a further validation of the power of internet, I have received a
- number of E-mail replies to my question. In the immortal words of Gomer
- Pyle, PFC, "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!" -- The rest of the gun cleaning
- junk is in the butt of the stock behind a hidden trap door "thingie"
- (okay! I admit my career as a technical writer is limited 8^) )!
- Very Clever, Comrade Simonov! Very Clever, indeed!
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- Thanks for all of the kind, helpful and patient replies.
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- McD
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