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| Yevgeny Dragunov and the SVD Sniper Rifle |
| 2021-11-23 |
By David M. Fortier [FirearmsNews] There was excitement in the air at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. The final minutes in the 300-meter Free Rifle event were ticking down, and a crowd was building. Word was spreading that a shoot-off was taking place between Robert Bürchler and an unknown Soviet marksman. Bürchler was one of Switzerland's finest riflemen, but who was this Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov? The last time a Russian team had attended the Olympics was in 1912 when the Tsar was still in power. |
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| #1 Anyone else 'run' the snow biathlon? It's tough at snow altitudes. |
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