11-01-2020, 01:39 PM | #41 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Illegal WW2 modifications
There was a serious deterrence effect with those. If the other side caught you with such bullets, it was commonly believed, they would not make you prisoner, but shoot you with them.
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11-01-2020, 08:26 PM | #42 |
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Illegal WW2 modifications
Also liable to get you in trouble with the CQMS and/or Regimental Armourer given that home made dum-dums apparently play havoc with the bore of your rifle. Your best bet was probably a privately acquired enemy rifle if you were going to get up to that kind of nonsense.
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11-02-2020, 01:53 AM | #43 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Udine, Italy
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Re: Illegal WW2 modifications
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Indeed, when SS-Ostuf. Knöchlein had some 100 British POWs murdered at Le Paradis in May 1940, his after-the-fact excuse was that he had found a crate of dum-dum bullets in the British position after the surrender. (The British POWs' crime had actually been demonstrating on the badly-trained SS camp goons that shooting at enemies who could shoot back could be costlier than shooting at defenseless KZ inmates). |
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