Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 22, 2021 Posted September 22, 2021 This is kind of weird. Supposed to be in Sweden but the narration does not seem to be Swedish. Patton won!
Pat Riot Posted September 22, 2021 Posted September 22, 2021 Looks like they’re shooting .22s and in single action.
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 22, 2021 Author Posted September 22, 2021 25 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Looks like they’re shooting .22s and in single action. Indoors with no ear plugs I think you are right. Almost look like Colt target revolvers.
Pat Riot Posted September 22, 2021 Posted September 22, 2021 7 minutes ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Indoors with no ear plugs I think you are right. Almost look like Colt target revolvers. Yes, they do. At first I thought they were S&Ws. It appeared one gent had a semiauto but the film is too dark to really tell.
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 22, 2021 Author Posted September 22, 2021 I tried to research the film. It looks like it was made in November, 1945 while Patton was visiting Stockholm. One month before Patton died.
Alpo Posted September 22, 2021 Posted September 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: narration does not seem to be Swedish. Don't know if it is Swedish, since I do not speak that language. But the rhythm of the speech definitely sounds scandahoovian to me. Svensk, Norsk, something. Where is Strawberry Lars when you need him?
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 22, 2021 Author Posted September 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, Alpo said: Where is Strawberry Lars when you need him? Have not heard that name in a long time.
Alpo Posted September 22, 2021 Posted September 22, 2021 Actually expected, if I got any response to that at all, it would be "WHO?"
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 22, 2021 Author Posted September 22, 2021 All right if it will make you happy, WHO?
Alpo Posted September 22, 2021 Posted September 22, 2021 How about Swede D, up in Seattle(?) - somewhere in the Great Northwet, anyway. Maybe he would be helpful
Buckshot Bear Posted September 22, 2021 Posted September 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Indoors with no ear plugs I think you are right. Almost look like Colt target revolvers. There's no way my ears could take that.
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 23, 2021 Posted September 23, 2021 Perhaps a replay of the 1912 Olympics shooting competition? He only scored 9 10s because his shot group was so tight they only identified nine hits. I think it was pentathlon.
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted September 23, 2021 Posted September 23, 2021 13 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Perhaps a replay of the 1912 Olympics shooting competition? He only scored 9 10s because his shot group was so tight they only identified nine hits. I think it was pentathlon. You remember correctly, Marshal. His formal protest of the scoring was the reason they now use a moving paper roll behind each target: it unrolls above, rolls up below, and shows whether or not the grouping was as tight as Patton's.
Chantry Posted September 23, 2021 Posted September 23, 2021 Patton probably would have won the Gold Medal for the 1912 Olympic Pentathlon if they had counted the 10th hit. Patton shot the US Service Revolver in .38 Long Colt while the rest of the competitors apparently used .22 LR IIRC Patton had set an unofficial world record the day before during practice.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 23, 2021 Posted September 23, 2021 Just one more reason the man is one of my several heroes.
Patagonia Pete Posted September 23, 2021 Posted September 23, 2021 Don't think anyone worried too much about ear plugs in those days ... I watched another version of these videos and it could clearly be seen Patton firing the revolver double action.
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 23, 2021 Author Posted September 23, 2021 I am glad to see they are following strict SASS costuming rules. No velcro or tennis shoes.
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted September 24, 2021 Posted September 24, 2021 As a tanker, he likely no longer needed ear protection. He was probably deaf to the sound of those shots anyway.
Chantry Posted September 24, 2021 Posted September 24, 2021 50 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: As a tanker, he likely no longer needed ear protection. He was probably deaf to the sound of those shots anyway. I doubt Patton spent a lot of time actually in a tank and even less time in a tank during combat. He was a Lt. Colonel when WWI started and spent most of his time leading the tanks into combat either on foot or standing on the back of the little 2 man tanks the US started with. In between WWI & WWII he went back to the cavalry until just before WWII when he was a brigade and division commander, too senior to spend time in a tank.
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 24, 2021 Posted September 24, 2021 I got to thinking about the Stockholm Olympics. The event was the modern pentathlon. Jim Thorpe won the Pentathlon and Decathlon that year.
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