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Gun Control & RKBA

virginia mountainman

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11. Hey now! The Soviet SKS would make a dandy club too....Don't forget the folding bayonet it had.

Reply to slackmaster (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:35 PM

Oct 2012

But that would be where I would draw the line for rifles that can be "effective clubs"

The Red Army in WWII also had a penchant for using sharpened entrenching tools (foldable shovels that soldiers used) in hand to hand combat. So much so that the German Army accused the Soviets of war crimes over it.

As for the best rifle that can be used as a club, that HAS to be the classic No1 MkIII Lee Enfield.. With brass buttplate and steel nose cap... Not to mention lots and lots of wood to hang onto.

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