And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Bore obstruction, I'd bet. Probably rammed the barrel into the dirt and didn't realize it.
ReplyDeleteEnough mud on the exterior of the muzzle end of the barrel to support your theory.
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DeleteIt also looks like all of the rifling is gone as well.
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DeleteNot an Abrams: looks like a T-72
ReplyDeleteNow if it had been in the U.S. Army, there'd be a master gunner doing a classic 'face palm' and repeating "WHY me?"
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Eastern block uniform on the crewman? on the left side of the picture
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