{"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":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Truvelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6403r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1951\" title=\"DSCF6403r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6403r-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6403r-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6403r.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Ralf Gebert of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truvelo.co.za\/armoury\/content\/sniper-rifles\">Truvelo<\/a>. I worked for him, briefly, back in&#8230; 1988 or thereabouts &#8212; holiday work when I was studying. That&#8217;s before they started building these toys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6407r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1952\" title=\"DSCF6407r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6407r-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6407r-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6407r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top rifle is a 50 BMG (although\u00a0 everyone at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aadexpo.co.za\/\">this show<\/a> calls it 12,7 x 99 mm) and the bottom two are babies &#8212; 308 Winchester and 338 Lapua.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like me some of these but (1) expensive (2) <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">what do I use it for<\/span> stupid question (2) expensive.<\/p>\n<p>But nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6401r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1956\" title=\"DSCF6401r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6401r-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6401r-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCF6401r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest rifle on display, in <a href=\"http:\/\/cartridgecollectors.org\/cmo\/cmo10apr.htm\">20 x 110 mm Hispano<\/a>. Longer than the Solothurn (20 x 105 mm), shorter than the Lahti (20 x 138 mm) (for <a href=\"http:\/\/thefiringline.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=448354\"><em>UC<\/em><\/a> fans).<\/p>\n<p>This would take some serious explaining to CFR to get a licence. I don&#8217;t like saying impossible, but in this case the word is probably appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Ralf Gebert of Truvelo. I worked for him, briefly, back in&#8230; 1988 or thereabouts &#8212; holiday work when I was studying. That&#8217;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 &#8212; 308 Winchester and 338 Lapua. I&#8217;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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/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}]}}