A Second Rainy Day

It rained practically the whole day today. The streets are no longer full of dust, but instead they are getting muddy, and as a result extremely slippery in some places. A muddy road that is inclined in some direction can be very difficult to navigate with our armoured vehichles, because of their weight.

After the OCCP meeting we paid a visit to the First Police District headquarters. There I let our police liaison officer K do the talking, and stood guard outside for a change. As we were parked inside the compound, I could concentrate on taking pictures. There was a hornet in the yard, that was a little confused from the rain.




As I was watching it, a police officer came and took it in his fingers. The hornet acted very aggressively but it was not harmed, and when the man let it go, it flew away.


Outside the gate of the police compound, there were puddles in the street. An uzbek man was talking on a very strange looking mobile phone, while his friends were waiting.



We spent the afternoon at the shooting range, and finally got the PKM up and running. What a great weapon. We also shot a few rounds with the TRG 42, and K managed to pop five small balloons with five rounds from a distance of 295 to 315 metres (we used a laser range finder). Not bad, although I think anyone of us could have done that. The TRG more of a precision instrument than a rifle. The evening was spent cleaning the weapons and drying and cleaning the equipment from the mud and the rain.