Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Forgotten Weapons"
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My neighbor's dad had two of these when I was a kid. He was one of the soldiers in a unit tasked with inventorying remaining German rifles and other small arms right after the war. As a reward for his work, he was able to bring back two of these .22 rifles. One was a Walthers that, from memory, looked and performed identically to the Walthers model single shot rifle shown in the video. The other was a stripper clip fed semiauto version made by BSW. It had a tiny clip that held, as I remember it, either seven or eight rounds, and it performed the same as the KAR98K stripper clip. I know he had at least 10 of these stripper clips, and my friend and I shot both the single shot and semiauto versions in Boy Scout target matches to get our target shooting merit badges. Both were in excellent condition, never having been issued, and they were great shooting guns. Unfortunately, both my friend and his dad are no longer with us, and I have no idea what happened to these rifles. At the time, we had no idea that these weren't just cooler versions of our JC Higgins .22 rifles.
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@dennisspencer1113 The Solothurn was the Cadillac of anti tank rifles then. Several wholesalers were selling them in the same time period (1960-65) for $150 to $200 including everything - case, optics, bipop, tools, cleaning kit, a couple extra barrels, ten mags, a few practice rounds for dry firing.IIRC, you could get 20mm rounds for about $40 per 50 live rounds. I don't remember the shipping weight, but I know it had to come by truck so there was no chance sneaking it up to my room. I used to sit there panting away over the ads, but I could never convince my mom or dad I HAD to get a 20mm cannon for some reasonable purpose. Back then, you could buy a six year old Ford for $200, and I sure wasn't going to get a cannon that cost as much as a used Ford. Rats!
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