The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

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The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby Aussie TJS » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:11 pm

Yes i know i could Google but why Google when i can ask all you knowledgable expats (try hard and wannabes ignore this topic)

If anyone knows some good stuff to do in Moscow please just post it here.
Just good stuff like firing ranges, warfare or history museums, open military bases or places to blow up ex USSR tanks etc. Anything interesting...

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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby wide.eyed.wanderer » Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:40 am

Aussie TJS wrote:Just good stuff like firing ranges or places to blow up ex USSR tanks etc. Anything interesting...

Cheers, TJS


I would like to know if there is anything like the army training camp in Seim Reap Cambodia where you can fire a whole range of firearms.

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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby Aussie TJS » Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:53 pm

Aussie TJS wrote:Yes i know i could Google but why Google when i can ask all you knowledgable expats (try hard and wannabes ignore this topic)



Did i offend you people? or does no one have any info about this?
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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby marie-angelique » Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:05 pm

sorry, both times i was in moscow i only spent a couple of days and didn't get a chance to see or do much beyond visiting the waxen remains of lenin and visiting the history museum at the kremlin (which is top notch if you are a history geek).

check out the metro. some of the stations are gorgeous.

will be on the lookout for your pix of shooting ranges and whatnot :)
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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby CaF_Phantom » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:43 am

Moscow isnt the place for what you want.
Go to Kiev/Ukraine, there are firering range where you can shoot many differents Eastern firearms from the Skorpion to the Dragunov.
(Check on the internet i found few sites offering these services in Kiev,there was even leaflet at my youth hostel about activities like that)
-There is also a base not far from Kiev where you can drive(T-54/55)and shoot few rounds in a ex-ussr base....
-There is ''The Great Patriotic War'' museum of Kiev (with the Rodina Mat(''Mother of the Motherland'' status) and ect.
-There are also many compagny offering Tchernobyl tour.
(If you wich to visit Tchernobyl, i suggest you http://www.ukrainianweb.com/chernobyl_u ... 5QodP1iS_A )
The site looks a bit ''low quality'' but the offer great support and everything was allright for me (i visited Tchernobyl with them on June 29 2009).


PS: if you wich more intel about Kiev, PM me.
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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby Aussie TJS » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:09 am

Cheers, thanks for the info CaF and welcome to the the BFC. Thats a quality first post

marie-angelique wrote:will be on the lookout for your pix of shooting ranges and whatnot :)


:) I need to put more pics on Photobucket so i can upload them onto here. Cheers

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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby nowonmai » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:08 pm

Aussie TJS wrote:
Aussie TJS wrote:Yes i know i could Google but why Google when i can ask all you knowledgable expats (try hard and wannabes ignore this topic)



Did i offend you people? or does no one have any info about this?
TJS


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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby Stiv » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:56 pm

That's right you aren't allowed to shoot stuff down under!!

If you think those firing ranges are cheap you've got another thing coming, the one in Cambodia in Pnom Penh was expensive for back packers types that skimp on accomadations so they can drink more bad booze.

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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby Aussie TJS » Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:34 pm

Stiv wrote:That's right you aren't allowed to shoot stuff down under!!


I do quite a bit of hunting back home in Australia but all my rifles are single shot bolt actions. Dad owned a semi-auto .22 (oh the power) but even that was crunched by the government after the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. The most powerful i use is a 30.06 single shot so i wouldn't mind having a crack at an Auto such as the AK or whatever else i can. I hear its a complete rip off and no way am i surprised but i'm happy to pay up once for the experience.
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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby Stiv » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:22 pm

If you REALLY want to do some serious shooting you would hightail it to America and hook up with some folks from this board.

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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby lightstalker » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:35 pm

How long are you in Russia for and when do you plan to visit Ukraine?..
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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby vagabond » Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:02 pm

Don't forget to try the local lingo (written in my own phonetic interpretation for you):

yesho peeva pahzhowlsta

yesho vodkoo pahzhowlsta

izveneetiyeh doorak

izveneetiyeh peeduhros

menya nraveetsiya titkaya

Note: The first two are ok, the rest might cause major ''adventure'' in a semiviolent manner

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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby Aussie TJS » Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:49 pm

Stiv wrote:If you REALLY want to do some serious shooting you would hightail it to America and hook up with some folks from this board.


That thought has entered my mind a few times already...

lightstalker wrote:How long are you in Russia for and when do you plan to visit Ukraine?..


Its looking like I'll be in Vladivostok around the 12th of Aug and Ukraine 2 weeks later or so.

vagabond wrote:Don't forget to try the local lingo

...''adventure'' in a semiviolent manner


Goodone, probably can't even pronounce it, i suck at Languages, even English

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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby marie-angelique » Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:14 pm

Aussie TJS wrote:
Stiv wrote:If you REALLY want to do some serious shooting you would hightail it to America and hook up with some folks from this board.
That thought has entered my mind a few times already...


we should have a BFC shootout in Texas :)
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Re: The more interesting/adventurous sides to Moscow

Postby vagabond » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:46 pm

Goodone, probably can't even pronounce it, i suck at Languages, even English


That's why I tried to spell it out for you phonetically...enjoy the Trans-sib, black bread and vodka.
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