authenticating Real Life(tm) [was: More on G3s]

2001-01-15 Thread Tom
ok, let's try to tackle this problem seriously, for the crypto value (or lack thereof): Jim Choate wrote: > > > What makes 'your friend' an authority? > > > > he had the weapon in question in hand pretty much every day for several > > years. > > Yeah, says who? Does your friend even exist? Ev

Re: More on G3s

2001-01-12 Thread Tim May
At 7:39 PM -1000 1/12/01, Reese wrote: >At 09:29 AM 1/12/01 -0800, Tim May wrote: >>At 7:45 AM -0600 1/12/01, Jim Choate wrote: >>>Go back to the archives and you will find Tim May claiming that ANY HK >>>rifle with *3 (eg 93 or G3) is a .223 whereas the *1's (eg 91) are .308. >>>When in fact the

Re: More on G3s

2001-01-12 Thread Tim May
At 7:45 AM -0600 1/12/01, Jim Choate wrote: >Go back to the archives and you will find Tim May claiming that ANY HK >rifle with *3 (eg 93 or G3) is a .223 whereas the *1's (eg 91) are .308. >When in fact the '3 means .223' applied ONLY to the '90' (ie 91 or 93) >class weapons. The reality (which T

Re: More on G3s

2001-01-12 Thread Tom
Tim May wrote: > And as relates to Choate's "I was right" point, repeated again > recently, the G3 in use by the German army was most definitely a 7.62 > mm, i.e., a .308 Winchester. It was _not_ the 5.56 mm variant, at > least not for wide use. (I say this because quibblers like Choate > like to

More on G3s

2001-01-11 Thread Tim May
[Sent this morning, 1/11, to algebra.com address. Not received as of 11 hours later. So am sending out to cyberpass.net address.] At 1:12 PM +0100 1/11/01, Tom wrote: >Jim Choate wrote: >> Up until then I thought I did too...I"m not so sure any more. >> >> It's not a clone of the HK G3 as it