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Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 10:11 am
by 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*
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 4:48 pm
by 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
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 4:49 pm
by saddler
Blighty wrote:Question is what rifle to take.........
Bring EVERYTHING!!
Not given that nice M28 of mine a good overhaul yet?
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:49 pm
by 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
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:58 am
by saddler
meles meles wrote: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.
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:08 am
by 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 ...
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 7:33 am
by froggy
Did you guys attended ?
How was it ?
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 9:46 am
by 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...
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 11:27 am
by 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 ?
Re: 1930s Finnish Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Rifle training co
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 4:36 pm
by RDC
Enough notice and I would be interested if there was another attempt.