War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 206 An interview for a scope
At dusk on the fourth day of the cannon test, with a "boom" gunshot, the last incendiary bomb hit a snowman's body in the middle of the icy lake, blasting a group of extraordinarily dazzling sparks.

Seven 800 meters away from the shore, Wei Ran kneaded his sore shoulders, and then took out the binoculars to look regretfully at the pine tree still wearing a red scarf on the other side of the lake.

In the past four days, he has squandered 80 rounds of different types of ammunition, but apart from tossing and turning at night with sore shoulders and being unable to sleep at night, the only gain is that under the current circumstances, this door The effective range of the amazingly powerful anti-tank gun can only be maintained at a distance of six 700 meters.

Beyond six 700 meters, even though the gun's power is absolutely sufficient for Bi Wei Ran's positioning, it is simply not accurate due to the sights and his skills.Therefore, the pine tree that had been a target for several days at the farthest place was lucky not to suffer any damage.

"Just stand there and don't run. When my buddy comes next time, he will definitely shoot you."

Wei Ran finally put down a harsh word, then put away the binoculars, anti-tank guns, and the bullet casings all over the floor, honestly sorted out all the supplies in the tent, and then, with the help of the reindeer, stacked them with My tent hung all these supplies on the pine trees.Anyway, these things can still be used when he comes to test shooting next time, so there is really no need to bring them back.

Feed the unfinished big Lieba to the spare ration that had been tied for several days, and when the other party was full, he immediately pulled the sleigh under the yell of Wei Ran, along the river connecting the ice lake ran up.Wei Ran, who was on the sleigh, took out his satellite phone and called Alili.

It took only half an hour at most, the roar of the engine came from the sky, Wei Ran immediately took out the flare gun in his arms and pointed it at the top of his head and pulled the trigger, then pulled a smoke bomb and threw it on the river behind him .

Soon, the An-2 plane driven by Alili lowered its altitude, and landed steadily along the spacious river at a position not far from Wei Ran.To Wei Ran's surprise, the reindeer who had been with him for the past few days lay down on the snow before the plane landed, and even buried its big head with a tree branch in it. in stomach.

Obviously, this [-]-kilogram guy took a lot of Alili's planes.And the other party was willing to give him such an experienced reindeer as a spare ration, which naturally made the belated Wei Ran very grateful.

When Aliri's plane completely shut down the engine, the reindeer howled and ran to the cabin door without shouting at all.

"It seems that you have been doing well these few days?" Alili pushed open the cabin door, untied the rein on the reindeer, and let it jump into the cabin by itself, and said to Wei Ran.

Wei Ran helped lift the sleigh, and said gratefully, "Thanks to the reindeer you provided, I would have had a hard time without it."

"Thank you also for not eating my Sasha," Alili said with a simple and honest smile.

"I knew it was Sasha again," Wei Ran murmured to himself, and changed the topic to the guests they received these days with a smile.

During the chat between the two, the An-2 plane that landed briefly along the river took off again, and after lightly crossing the Ural Mountains not far away, it smoothly sent Wei Ran to Inta's airport.

"There are still four days until we have class, and you still have to go back?"

Jima, who was waiting at the airport, asked directly the moment the cabin door opened. When the class ended last time, Teacher Dalia made it very clear that their next class will be held in Inta.

“must go back”

Wei Ran threw the little luggage to Jima directly, "There are still some things in the studio that I need to go back to deal with, but don't worry, I will be back on time."

"I'm not worried about you"

Jima took Wei Ran's luggage, and reminded with a sad face, "I'm worried that because you are late, I will be unlucky with you. I don't want to run around in such a ghostly place wearing only a pair of underwear and carrying a silicone dummy. Quan'er. This is Inta, and I don't want to lose face in my hometown."

"Don't worry, I don't want to either." Wei Ran shivered subconsciously, and quickly made a promise, "I will definitely come back on time."

"I hope so"

Jima said worriedly, although this guy is used to being shameless and skinny, he was outside, and now he is a showman in Inta, but no matter whether he is or Wei Ran, there is no doubt that Teacher Dalia is absolutely possible Let them experience social death in Inta.

After bidding farewell to Jima and Alili who was watching, Wei Ran boarded the flight to Volgograd.

When he rushed back to the studio early the next morning, the blond girl at the Katyusha shooting range had already been waiting for a long time.

"40 rounds of armor-piercing bombs, 40 rounds of incendiary bombs, 40 rounds of high-explosive bombs, and 40 rounds of tracer rounds." The blond haired girl whispered while Wei Ran opened the shutter door, and then consciously pushed the cart into the studio , and put the wooden box full of ammunition in the same position as last time.

"How much?" Wei Ran asked after a rough inspection, and had to admit that the quality of the ammunition provided by the other party was very good, at least there was not a single stink bomb in the 80 rounds last time.

"Including shipping costs 33 rubles, tip [-]." The hairy girl stretched out her hand happily.

After paying the corresponding amount to send the little girl away, Wei Ran locked the shutter door again, took out the empty bullet casings in the food box and those pressed into the magazine one by one, and replaced them with the ammunition he just bought .

Putting the extra ammunition into the safe, and unloading the sight of the anti-tank gun, Wei Ran picked up the plastic bag full of empty ammunition casings, and drove straight to the bridge across the Volga River.

The safest way to destroy these shell casings is naturally to find a shredder to crush them into metal fragments or melt them directly, but he didn't do anything bad with this gun, so naturally he chose the simplest method, throwing it directly into the Volga The river is over.

After finishing the final work, he continued along the cross-river bridge to Volgasky on the east bank, and drove the car into the auto repair shop where Mr. Alexander's gun modification workshop was located.

In just a few months, this auto repair shop in the city center has undergone earth-shaking changes, the most conspicuous of which is the big sign of "Alexander's Private Museum" at the gate.

In addition, the spacious yard is not only paved with clean floor tiles, but also planted many oak trees.And beside each tree are parked all kinds of common war equipment in World War II.

What is quite special is that there is a stainless steel plate on the side of these war equipment, on which the story and service experience about this equipment are briefly written.There is no doubt that this achievement undoubtedly came from Professor Alexey who has become a happy worker.

After strolling around the big yard slowly, Wei Ran lost interest. There are all kinds of common things here, except for those that are either detailed or simple and do not know the truth or falsehood, but each one is more touching. Besides, there is nothing to see at all.

Stepping into the four-story building facing the gate, Wei Ran couldn't help but smile as soon as he entered. On the wall of the first floor facing the gate of the building, there was a picture of a picture he got from himself. The flag-planting photo of the Capitol, directly below the photo, also states the origin of the photo in conspicuous fonts.

After seeing enough new things, Wei Ran walked through the four-story building and found the gun modification studio that was still intact.

Before he could enter the small room, Manager Federer opened the sliding door and said enthusiastically, "Mr. Victor, Mr. Alexander is already waiting for you inside."

"Thank you"

Wei Ran greeted him politely, followed the other party through the room full of various processing machines, and saw Mr. Alexander who had been waiting for a long time in that familiar studio.

"Victor, is there something good for you to find me all of a sudden?" Alexander asked with great interest, "Did you find any precious historical footage?"

"How could I have such good luck?" Wei Ran said with a smile, "Mr. Alexander, this time I came to ask for your help."

"Tell me," Alexander gave an ambiguous response.

It was only at this time that Wei Ran took out the scope that was removed from the anti-tank gun from his bag and handed it to the other party.

After just one glance, Alexander asked with certainty, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the scope used by the S18-1000 anti-tank gun produced by the Swiss Solothurn factory in the early days of World War II?"

"Mr. Alexander has a good eye"

Wei Ran complimented the other party's vision, "This is something from a client of mine. He wants to add a high-magnification scope to his anti-tank gun."

"Use it as a sniper rifle?" Alexander immediately guessed the purpose.

Wei Ran nodded calmly, continued flattering and said, "This customer is very important to me, and among the people I know, only Mr. Alexander has a sufficiently precise metal processing technology, so I have the cheek to ask for your head Let’s see if we can process a suitable base.”

“Processing this is not too difficult”

Alexander looked at Wei Ran strangely, stood up after hesitating for a moment, picked up a screwdriver and said, "Come with me, I will show you something, maybe you can give your client a better choice. "

After receiving the scope handed back by the other party, Wei Ran quickly got up, followed Alexander out of the studio, and went straight to the exhibition hall he had just passed through, leaving only the manager Federer who was about to deliver the coffee behind him, so he looked at them for no reason. .

"Professor Alexei's office is on the top floor of this exhibition hall"

Alexander led Wei Ran to the second floor and introduced, "He always complained to me that he should have listened to you and not come to work for me, and said he was never so tired in college."

"The professor often shows off his museum curator status to us at home," Wei Ran responded with a smile.

"This duplicity old guy"

Alexander shook his head noncommittally, took Wei Ran to a light weapons exhibition hall on the second floor, pointed to various anti-tank guns in the glass cabinet and said, "These are my collections, Soviet, German, British, Basically I have it all here."

Wei Ran looked over one by one, and it was just like what Alexander said, this small exhibition hall covered almost most of the mainstream anti-tank weapons that appeared during World War II that he knew.

Alexander, who was walking in front, stopped in front of a glass showcase, pointed to the exhibits inside and asked proudly, "Is this the one your customer owns?"

Wei Ran nodded subconsciously. In this separate showcase, there is not only an anti-tank gun of the same model as his own, but also a variant of that gun, an anti-aircraft weapon numbered 1100 that can fire in bursts.

The difference between these two types of weapons is that one can only shoot semi-automatically and the other can shoot fully automatically. At first glance, it seems that the latter has an extra base that allows people to sit on it and shoot into the air.

Under Wei Ran's watchful eye, Alexander took out a magnetic card from his pocket and swiped it at the lower edge of the showcase. After a soft "beep", he took out a key and opened the glass showcase.

Under his fiddling, in less than 5 minutes before and after, a weird sight was removed by him with a screwdriver.

"Take it!" Alexander threw the removed scope to Wei Ran, and then skillfully locked the glass showcase.

"This is."

Wei Ran took the scope in a hurry. Compared with his own scope, half of the scope is not much different except that it is slightly thicker, but the other half is connected side by side at the end. On the whole, this heavy Structurally speaking, the scary sight may use the Paul prism structure commonly used on binoculars.

"This is an anti-aircraft scope. It's a fancy gadget designed by the Swiss, but it's actually used. This thing is far less useful than a circular iron sight, so it's relatively rare."

Alexander introduced while walking back, "Its maximum magnification can clearly aim at a mineral water bottle one kilometer away. The only disadvantage is that it is too big and too heavy."

"No, no, I mean." Wei Ran paused, "You gave it to me?"

"It can be understood like this"

Alexander said nonchalantly, "In exchange, I have a TV interview at the end of this month about that photo, Victor, how about you join in the fun as a guest?"

It turned out to be waiting here!Wei Ran immediately understood the other party's plan, and he realized that he had hit the muzzle of a gun!

After hesitating for less than ten seconds, Wei Ran readily agreed to the other party's invitation.He could see clearly that even if he didn't come over and offered to send it to his door, the other party would probably find a way to invite him over through the professor.

Besides, he can easily take out the scope he needs, which in itself is his ability and background. Even if he refuses this time, can he still refuse the next time?
So instead of getting into a stalemate with the professor's boss, it's better to agree to it. This will not only solve the problem of the scope, but also leave a good impression on the other party.

Sure enough, seeing that Wei Ran agreed so readily, Alexander showed a satisfied smile on his face, and forced him to have lunch with Professor Alexei, who was secretly drinking in the office, before letting him go.

Wei Ran, who was drunk, let Federer drive him back to the studio, and then immediately put away his fake drunkenness, locked the shutter door and summoned an anti-tank gun, and installed the scope he just got.

Putting the heavy muzzle on the window sill and aiming at the statue of the motherland on the hill in the distance, Wei Ran was satisfied with the clear image and took it back into the metal book. At the same time, in his heart, he had already given Aries The little devil above has arranged thousands of ways to die.

(End of this chapter)