{"id":1950,"date":"2012-09-21T07:50:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2012-09-21T07:59:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:59:06","slug":"truvelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Truvelo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is Ralf Gebert of Truvelo<\/a>. I worked for him, briefly, back in… 1988 or thereabouts — holiday work when I was studying. That’s before they started building these toys.<\/p>\n

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The top rifle is a 50 BMG (although\u00a0 everyone at this show<\/a> calls it 12,7 x 99 mm) and the bottom two are babies — 308 Winchester and 338 Lapua.<\/p>\n

I’d like me some of these but (1) expensive (2) what do I use it for<\/span> stupid question (2) expensive.<\/p>\n

But nice.<\/p>\n

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The biggest rifle on display, in 20 x 110 mm Hispano<\/a>. Longer than the Solothurn (20 x 105 mm), shorter than the Lahti (20 x 138 mm) (for UC<\/em><\/a> fans).<\/p>\n

This would take some serious explaining to CFR to get a licence. I don’t like saying impossible, but in this case the word is probably appropriate.

This is Ralf Gebert of Truvelo. I worked for him, briefly, back in… 1988 or thereabouts — holiday work when I was studying. That’s before they started building these toys. The top rifle is a 50 BMG (although\u00a0 everyone at this show calls it 12,7 x 99 mm) and the bottom two are babies — 308 Winchester and 338 Lapua. I’d like me some of these but (1) expensive (2) what do I use it for stupid question (2) expensive. But nice. The biggest rifle on display, in 20 x 110 mm Hispano. Longer than the Solothurn (20 x 105...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}