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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#11 Post by waterford103 »

Polchraine wrote:Bunch of wimps ... have just spent a week fishing. Standing in a cold river, with temperatures -6c at times, winds of up to 40 knots, snow and more ...
Naked as well I suppose ,well hard you are ;)

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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#13 Post by Polchraine »

waterford103 wrote:
Polchraine wrote:Bunch of wimps ... have just spent a week fishing. Standing in a cold river, with temperatures -6c at times, winds of up to 40 knots, snow and more ...
Naked as well I suppose ,well hard you are ;)

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Get out of your nice warm town and go 30 miles North West - currently still -3 and snowing (again)!


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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#14 Post by greenshoots »

as our youngest says when hes over t-shirt weather and he does, then again he usually works in -40

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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#15 Post by Blu »

It's -5 here, we had about two feet of snow on the ground and it dumped another 15 inches last night. Perfect shooting weather and I off to the range after I've taken the dogs out.

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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#16 Post by Scotsgun »

I'm just in. I've been shooting out on the hill.

In this weather I shoot from inside a bivi bag with a light fleece liner inside. Keeps you out of the wind when lying down and toasties inside. I've even nodded off a few times. You'll pick up a surplus bivi on flea bay for a fiver.

As the training sgts were forever screaming at us 'any fool can be uncomfortable!'
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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#17 Post by Sim G »

Scotsgun wrote:
As the training sgts were forever screaming at us 'any fool can be uncomfortable!'

Very, very restrained from you, SG! I remember the adage as A.C.C.S. (Any C* Can Suffer)!!! :o :lol:
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Scotsgun wrote:I'm just in. I've been shooting out on the hill.

In this weather I shoot from inside a bivi bag with a light fleece liner inside. Keeps you out of the wind when lying down and toasties inside. I've even nodded off a few times. You'll pick up a surplus bivi on flea bay for a fiver.

As the training sgts were forever screaming at us 'any fool can be uncomfortable!'

Scotsgun..
As the training sgts were forever screaming at us 'any fool can be uncomfortable!'

That brings back memories. I remember one of my Platoon Sgt's in boys service saying.... 'Any fool can be cold or hungry'. Never forgot it. It comes to mind every time I'm a 'cold and hungry fool' :grin: ;)


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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#19 Post by Scotsgun »

Sim G wrote:
Scotsgun wrote:
Very, very restrained from you, SG! I remember the adage as A.C.C.S. (Any C* Can Suffer)!!! :o :lol:
Seeing as the training was prep for P Company, it was and to my knowledge remains C* free :run:
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Re: Too cold to go to the shooting range

#20 Post by Sim G »

But evidently full of fools.......? :lol: ;)
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?

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