"You'd look at them and think it impossible for a man with a 25-pound pack and rifle to scale that obstacle," he said.
The Germans quickly reacted by introducing the 13-millimetre Tankgewehr ("Antitank Rifle"), a very large-scale single-shot version of the Mauser bolt-action rifle.
He had also stolen a single-engine Cessna plane in 1986 that was recovered "filled with money, a rifle, a set of scales and maps of Mexican airstrips".
The sad truth, of course, is that PTR Industries and the rest of the gun industry have absolutely nothing to fear from Connecticut's tougher controls on military-style assault rifles and large-scale bullet magazines.
We bought a road atlas in Loveland, the Rand McNally large scale, and I'm reading the place names: Rifle, Sunbeam, Severance, Never Summer.
The same high-command recklessness, after all, had been active in our Civil War, where massed rifle fire had some of the effect, on a smaller scale, of machine-gun fire.
Today's financial porn Prechter's predictions of a 1,000 Dow, with everyone urged to head for the back woods, rifle in hand is at the other end of the porn scale from those Caligulan romps of yore.
Other data collection included; demographic data Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS), APACHE II score, acute kidney injury assessed by RIFLE criteria, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), duration of mechanical ventilation, ICU length of stay & 28-day mortality.
Mr. Barta taught Ms. Mitchell -- who had scaled mountains but didn't know how to shoot a rifle -- and her son, Ian, 18, how to hunt.
The Rifle Brigade encircled and, through the achievement of its 4th Battalion in scaling the ramparts that surrounded the town, pushed into Le Quesnoy by the close of the day while the 1st Brigade had established a line to the east.
