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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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There were so many of them in Eastern Europe that in the 1960s and 70s when multiple high budget epic Napoleonic Era war movies were made in Romania, Poland, and the USSR, film set armorers just removed the magazines on Mosins, glued a steel side plate to the stock around the bolt, and passed them off as 18th century flintlock muskets. And it worked because the Mosins are nearly identical to and still retain most features and outlines of the musket, complete with the tricorn bayonet...
 
There were so many of them in Eastern Europe that in the 1960s and 70s when multiple high budget epic Napoleonic Era war movies were made in Romania, Poland, and the USSR, film set armorers just removed the magazines on Mosins, glued a steel side plate to the stock around the bolt, and passed them off as 18th century flintlock muskets. And it worked because the Mosins are nearly identical to and still retain most features and outlines of the musket, complete with the tricorn bayonet...
I watched a special on the History Channel about Patton's 3rd Army. All of the actors in the shots with Patton were carrying SMLE rifles.
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I gather it's being "towed" (I see the towing rig on the left). I'm curious as to how far away the towing vessel is. :eek:
Just for points of reference. It will need to be towed from Bremerton, through Puget Sound, the Straights of Juan de Fuca and out to the Pacific Ocean (all saltwater). It will be towed down to Astoria, Oregon, where it will enter the Columbia River and make it's (freshwater) journey up the Columbia river to Hanford.

Towing/tug/barge companies tow barges all the time without being "run over". We have a lot of tug traffic going to/from Alasaka and Seattle.