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Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:28 pm
by toffe wrapper
Giant viper
but not the one in the clip below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHszRV5-bd4
TW
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:10 pm
by IainWR
Blu wrote:Firing a captured Argentinian 7.62 FN Fal.
I carried one of those for a few weeks in late 1982 until the fun police turned up and made us carry SLRs. Funnily, something similar happened in 91 when we were getting good with RPGs by using up Saddam's leftovers against his leftover vehicles.
Most fun - laser designating / controlling on Salisbury Plain for a squadron of A-10s leading 19 Bde (I was the Bde ALO) into a major exercise just after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Abiding memory was Lt Col (now Lt Gen) Freddie Viggers shouting "Yes Yes Yes!" from the top of his command vehicle, parked just behind my Landrover, as the A10s came up the reverse slope inverted, pulled down onto target, rolled upright and opened fire about 200 yds behind the assembled armour ready to advance once Air had softened up the "enemy".
And by the rules the Forward Air Controller owns the weapon, so MY PARTY!
Iain
btw, the Full Danger Area trace for the GAU-8 is 29 000 metres long, which just fits on Salisbury Plain. Takes a lot to get the whole Plain to yourself even for 20 minutes!
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:00 pm
by Charlotte the flyer
M60 in 'Nam (at the Cu-Chi museum). Charlie was friendly when I went but he did know how to charge. $1/rnd
or a Thompson with a stick mag on full auto.
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:07 am
by Meaty
A .500 Nitro Express double rifle made by Rhodda in Calcutta. There is a dark and grainy clip on youtube somewhere of me shooting it...... Found it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlMbbi7yNdU
Took me by surprise a bit :lol: @ about 25 secs. in.
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:29 pm
by John MH
Dillon Aero Mini Gun
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:35 pm
by dromia
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 1:06 pm
by Doz
dromia wrote:
:lol:
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:59 pm
by Dougan
For me the Bren gun - but that's hardly worth mentioning after reading the rest! tongueout
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:02 pm
by tackb
Most fun ? Probably my BSA meteor .22 when I was a lad although I had a blast with my black widow catapult !
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:30 pm
by Blu
Dougan wrote:For me the Bren gun - but that's hardly worth mentioning after reading the rest! tongueout
Not at all Dougan, I've fired the Bren gun when I was an Army Cadet and later in the Regular Army the LMG 7.62 version, they were both a lot of fun to shoot as well. As long as they brought a smile to your face or you had a laugh doing it everything is good.
Blu
