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Re: Vickers gun on Century this afternoon
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:10 pm
by rox
JS569 wrote:So I saw this on Forgotten Weapons yesterday. I wondered how/ who was the owner and shooter of the gun and the legal status of that - obviously S5 but still intrigued. And secondly, it must have cost a fortune in ammunition as they rattled through it.
Owned by Fultons.
Fired by Colin Shorthouse.
Ammo was part donated by NRA, part by Fultons, part other?
Ammo was a mixture of PPU, HXP & S&B, hence the variation in rate of fire.
Re: Vickers gun on Century this afternoon
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:45 pm
by Strangely Brown
rox wrote:Owned by
Fired by
Ammo was part donated by NRA, part by Fultons, part other?
Ammo was a mixture of PPU, HXP & S&B, hence the variation in rate of fire.
Do you not think this post of yours breeches rather a lot of security?
Re: Vickers gun on Century this afternoon
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:53 pm
by GeeRam
rox wrote:
Ammo was a mixture of PPU, HXP & S&B, hence the variation in rate of fire.
Who grabbed the spent HXP brass then
Re: Vickers gun on Century this afternoon
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:19 am
by Maggot
David TS wrote:Maggot wrote:
NOT the 100 or so period rifles that were part of the day
99 period rifles,
He knows who he is..... I would not mind betting many were made after 1918 but you have to draw the line somewhere