Operation "Copper Forest" - Botosani 2011

A very good location and a great opportunity to almost have my lungs pried out from me ,due to exhaustion and effort.Nonetheless,a good sporting event.




Location - near the city of Botosani,NE of Romania,near the Ukrainian border.

Pics and vids (1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7).Enjoy!

OVERLOAD 2011 - Sibiu

And then was Operation "Overload 2011" edition,took place in a former Communist military compound near Sibiu (Mirsa,for those of you in the knowing).

Very good terrain,however the vegetation growth made some infiltration missions quite "milsim",if I am allowed to say this.Nonetheless,by and large,a good game,a good weekend spent with my team into the bossom of wild nature.

Photographs here.

Lots of other links in this post here.Enjoy!

Mauser C96 leather holster

I managed to acquire a very beautiful replica of a leather holster designed for Mauser C96 ,regular size.A tad dearer than the "Bolo" type,but this is exactly what the doctor's ordered :-).

"Ostasi,va ordon:TRECETI PRUTUL!"

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Russian War films

These are but a few of the best Russian movies of WW2.Mainly filmed during the Communist regime (pre-1991),they miss nothing of the typical "Motherland and Stalin" attitude to the war.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0073488/
Oni srazhalis za rodinu (1975)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0057717/
Zhivye i myortvye (1963)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212194/
Goryachij sneg (1972)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0063333/
Na vojne, kak na vojne (1968)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088777/
"Batalyony prosyat ognya" (1985) (mini)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167900/
Dom, v kotorom ya zhivu (1957)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/
Idi i smotri (1985)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0151852/
"Osvobozhdeniye" (1970) (mini)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067517/
Ofitsery (1971)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068161/
A zori zdes tikhiye (1972)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144111/
Blokada: Luzhskij rubezh, Pulkovskij meredian (1974)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315844/
Blokada: Leningradskij metronom, Operatsiya Iskra (1977)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0069628/
"Semnadtsat mgnovenij vesny" (1973) (mini)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052600/
Ballada o soldate (1959)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326450/
Zvezda (2002)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070861/
V boj idut odni stariki (1973)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053628/
Baltijskoye nebo - 1 seriya (1960)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054659/
Baltijskoye nebo - 2 seriya (1960)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0059529/
Obyknovennyj fashizm (1965)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0053317/
Sudba cheloveka (1959)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0055181/
Mir vkhodyashchemu (1961)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0050634/
Letjat zhuravli (1957)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0175809/
Khronika pikiruyushchego bombardirovshchika (1967)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049001/
Bessmertnyj garnizon (1956)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0141666/
Normandie - Niémen (1960)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067625/
Proverka na dorogakh (1971)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0062523/
Zhenya, Zhenechka i 'Katyusha' (1967)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0262052/
Torpedonostsy (1983)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0209212/
Otryad (1984)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089828/
Porokh (1985)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0314947/
Zhavoronok (1964)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065507/
Byl mesyats maj (1970) (TV)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040601/
Molodaja gvardija (1948)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051541/
Dobrovoltsy (1958)

Brestkaya Kreposti

Just had a glimpse of this excellent Russian film a few days ago,while in Belarus.It is the story of the Brest Fortress,stormed by the German troops in the early hours of the 22nd of June,1941.

Excellent movie,very well made and actually extremelly accurate,in my opinion.Not just the actual facts,but it misses the whole communist mumbo-jumbo that goes usually with Russian WWII film propaganda.Besides,the story line is accounted to a real survivor of the siege,16 years old at the time.

The fierce combat scenes and ireality of the carnage is hard-hitting the eye of the viewer.It makes you understand somehow the hate that later drove the Red Army in creating the havoc which it did in Germany.In short,this film is worth viewing by those who wish to get a view of what hapenned in the first WW2 days in Russia,Barbarossa plan and all.

For those who wish to download the film,see this link.Enjoy!

Mauser C96 HFC field strip

After I bought my HFC C96,I was pretty stuck on how to dissasemble the darn thing.The reason behind such an operation would have had been the change of the barrel with a tight bore and the hop-up / air chamber upgraded.However,none of these found their way into my busy schedule,so I will leave it to the future (nearest,I trust).

Finding a field strip schematics / exploded view of parts and such proved a pain in the proverbial backside...scarciest information do exist,and I was lucky to find it on the internet.I am addign it here,for any C96 owner to not waste precious little time we have for this good fun which is airsoft.Feel free to use it or disseminate the image as per your liking!