GR translation: the stick-rattle of rifle fire

[Robert Mahnke]

It's something of a cliche to refer to the "rattle" of automatic-weapons
fire.  This phrase uses the word in a way that's new again.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I read that I thought of the noise you make walking along a fence and
> running a stick over the bars.
>
> 2016-03-25 8:00 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>
>> V730.20-24, P744.38-745.3   “There.” Beside the road, a prone body. It’s
>> Mieczislav Omuzire, with a bad head wound. “Get him in, come on.” They load
>> him into the back of the idling truck, and cover him with a shelter half.
>> No time to find out how bad it is. The blackface sentry has vanished for
>> good. From the direction they’re backing in comes the stick-rattle of rifle
>> fire.
>>
>> Does "stick-rattle" here refer to the infant toy?
>>
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