1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training course

[meles meles]

Oooooh, this looks good... and there are some quite reasonable flights from Mancunia to Helsinki too...

*Scurries away to count the pennies in the savings jar*

[saddler]

Looking into lodgings in the area.
One possible option is Marshall Mannerheim's hunting cabin! (It's rented out as a bunk-house/lodge)

There is also the nearby SA-KAUPPA store at Hämeenlinna (The Finnish Army Disposal Shop)
New unissued M91 & M28 stocks, spare parts a plenty & all sorts of other Finnish goodies

[saddler]

Question is what rifle to take.........

Bring EVERYTHING!!

Not given that nice M28 of mine a good overhaul yet?

[saddler]

...and then there were TWO

Blighty will be attending as well now!
We may need to hire a cargo plane for all his kit...

Paging Mizz Badga

[saddler]

Oooooh, this looks good... and there are some quite reasonable flights from Mancunia to Helsinki too...

*Scurries away to count the pennies in the savings jar*

Pennies may not be at as big a risk as I initially thought.
The organisers e-mailed me about an hour ago:

FREE ACCOMMODATION AT THE RANGE (badgers sleep in the wheelie bin shed around the back)

That'll save about 50-70Euro per night, per human....more to spend on horrible tacky Finnish army kit at the SA-Kauppa & the Helsinki flea market.

[froggy]

I could offer a decent home to a M39 bayo if you encounter a lost one...
would help to recover part of the plane ticket expenses in case of ...

[froggy]

Did you guys attended ?
How was it ?

[saddler]

How was it?
Cancelled!!

They needed 12 bookings....they only had 2...so no trip.
Vety annoying. Probably due to not being on a weekend.

However, now have the M91 handbook from 1940.
Just needs some translation in parts...

[froggy]

Ouch ... Bummer ...
Mid week is indeed very difficult for most people . Even at W-E, unfortunatly I know all too well how tricky & stressful it can be to get a bunch of people together to commit in order to organise something.

I really loved the idea of that Finnish trip, in deep winter it would have been even better .
Maybe we could try to get 12 UK shooters together first and then approach the organisators to ask them to put such W-E together for us ?

[RDC]

Enough notice and I would be interested if there was another attempt.