Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:10:35 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Why Tony Needed A War




On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Erik wrote:

> So when do i get my personal rocket launcher, carp...

You want to go for one of those old soviet-bloc RPG models.  NATO stuff is
too technical and tends to weather badly in storage.  The Stingers we gave
the afghani mujadeen self-destructed after about a year or so.  

You've got to hand it to the soviets, they knew how to make a weapon that
any mountain goat herder in Kazakistan could keep in a shootable
condition.  My SKS just keeps shooting and shooting.  It's designed to
actually shoot with sand in the chamber.  The M16 or one of your belchum
HKs would jam in a second like that.

Can you buy gunpowder or pyrodex in Belchum?  If you make a potato-gun out
of plastic pipe you can sort of kentucky-rig a passable mortar round if
you've got powder.

Don't ask me how I know these things, I just do.


carp