Short quiz.

[mroliver77]

Can you identify these men?
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[fishhawk]

First is mickial kalisnakov(spelling is off i know)i believe the second is Garand

[Cactus Farmer]

Yep, Micakale Kalashicof and John Garand. Not much into Russian names.

[fishhawk]

wasn't sure if that was stoner i thought he was larger than that picture shows him

[Sprue]

The one on the left is...well....Bill Gates - of another time/era. Don't know the one on the right

[fishhawk]

Nope that's Garand not stoner I was right

[mroliver77]

You guys are too good!Garand pronounced his name air-end like running an errand.
Both of these guys were quite interesting!
From what I read neither really profited from their design aside from wages.

[mroliver77]

http://archive.org/details/ArmaliteAr10PromoFilm
Bad quality but this is a video with Stoner and his brainchild!


Nother version. Still bad quality but worth the watch to see Stoner walking out of the water firing the AR10!
http://archive.org/details/AR10_Promotion

[Hamish]

Mikhail Kalashnikov and John C. Garand.

One was a tanker, the other had a a "tanker" named after him,,,,,

One lives in a country that becomes a skating rink in the fall, the other had a skating rink in his living room,,,,,

[runfiverun]

those videos jay put up are pretty cool.
but definately kalishnikov and garand in the pictures.

[mroliver77]

those videos jay put up are pretty cool.
but definately kalishnikov and garand in the pictures.
I especially liked the belt feed for the AR! Stoner could strip an AR fast! lol

There are quite a few good gun videos on Archive.org. Their book section has a great selection of books from yesteryear from some of the notables of the day.
J