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Post by Ratty on Jun 30, 2020 12:17:27 GMT
[ Snipped Naut's interesting anecdote re firing military rounds thru trees for which I can vouch. ] I fired an slr and SA80 on firing range with CCF. SA80 was piece if pss, SA80 being longer and heavy was hard to aim unsupported, we use beret as shoulder pad as the recoil left you bruised. Sighting in my Remington Model 760 .308 while leaning across the bonnet of a car and not getting the butt firmly onto my shoulder, I suddenly had a cut eyebrow and streaming blood (scope). Lesson learned. |
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 30, 2020 16:49:12 GMT
Perhaps a little easier on the hand. |
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 1, 2020 15:58:11 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jul 1, 2020 17:19:25 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 1, 2020 17:47:42 GMT
Maybe they should try that in Hollywood.  |
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Post by nautonnier on Jul 1, 2020 20:16:05 GMT
Nice one
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Post by phydeaux2363 on Jul 1, 2020 20:50:10 GMT
How dare those violent cops use guns to subdue that poor black man. I'm pretty sure he just wanted to use the rest room.
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 1, 2020 22:53:48 GMT
How dare those violent cops use guns to subdue that poor black man. I'm pretty sure he just wanted to use the rest room. Now he'll get his own little room to rest in.  |
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 1, 2020 23:34:12 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jul 2, 2020 0:30:03 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jul 2, 2020 0:30:52 GMT
How dare those violent cops use guns to subdue that poor black man. I'm pretty sure he just wanted to use the rest room. Now he'll get his own little room to rest in. Maybe. |
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Post by Ratty on Jul 2, 2020 0:36:13 GMT
Spoil sport.
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Post by acidohm on Jul 2, 2020 8:10:50 GMT
Combined Cadet Force.
Ages 12-18 you can join army, navy or RAF Cadets, learn drill, proper uniform presentation, and play with relevant toys/go on exercise.
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Post by nautonnier on Jul 2, 2020 9:53:16 GMT
Combined Cadet Force. Ages 12-18 you can join army, navy or RAF Cadets, learn drill, proper uniform presentation, and play with relevant toys/go on exercise. Those were the days. We had only 'Air Training Corps'. But the school had a basement 50yd range for .22 with what would be now a valuable half dozen Martini Henry rifles. I ran the armoury where we had ~30 Lee Enfield .303, a few Stirling submachine guns and some Bren guns. For a time I was one of the two 'armourers' and many a lunch time was spent blindfold disassembling and reassembling the various weapons for fun. All this in a school in central London. I doubt it is allowed today. |
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Post by acidohm on Jul 2, 2020 10:41:09 GMT
Combined Cadet Force. Ages 12-18 you can join army, navy or RAF Cadets, learn drill, proper uniform presentation, and play with relevant toys/go on exercise. Those were the days. We had only 'Air Training Corps'. But the school had a basement 50yd range for .22 with what would be now a valuable half dozen Martini Henry rifles. I ran the armoury where we had ~30 Lee Enfield .303, a few Stirling submachine guns and some Bren guns. For a time I was one of the two 'armourers' and many a lunch time was spent blindfold disassembling and reassembling the various weapons for fun. All this in a school in central London. I doubt it is allowed today. We had a underground range at the school i went to in Bath, no idea if its still in use. Early '90s 40 or so of us went from Bath to Wales for exercise in a coach with a 4 tonne carrying kit. The CCF officer parked the lorry on double yellows, how are they going to clamp it he said! We had a cadet SA80 for each cadet on back seats of coach. They couldn't fire in auto and required re-cocking for each round, but otherwise were active. While the adults went into a service station for loo break, we kids 'may' have picked some up and pointed at some younger passing children through the coach windows. I can neither confirm nor deny this..... |
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