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Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:51 pm
by NoEntry
45acp Thompson on full auto......great fun
9mm silenced MP5 also on full auto
Still miss my semi auto Lithgow SLR though
Mike
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:55 pm
by zzr1100
7x57 ... Shooting my first impala when I was 11 ...
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:38 am
by Burner
3" 50cal Mark 33 in full auto
M242 Bushmaster 25mm
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:08 am
by Tower75
When I look at mounted guns like that I always think; ok, I get the gun bit, I can see the barrel and breech, etc; but what is all the other stuff bolted to the frame work?
I like the look of the cartridges. What are the "blue" shells?
Most fun thing I've shot? I don't think I can narrow it down to one firearm. Everything I shot in the US was fun, so I'll count the whole trip as, the most fun thing I've shot. I got to shot stuff I never thought I'd get my hands on, including; handguns, self-loaders in all shapes and sizes, full-auto rifles, belt-fed machine guns as well as an Exploding Nazi... Yeah, you heard right.
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:21 am
by techguy
Tower.75 wrote:When I look at mounted guns like that I always think; ok, I get the gun bit, I can see the barrel and breech, etc; but what is all the other stuff bolted to the frame work?
I'm glad it's not just me who think that!
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:33 am
by Chuck
tower: 20mm cannon shells???? Dunno about the load though...
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:38 am
by meles meles
A Charlie G 84mm and 10 'time expired' rounds - 9 HE and one Illuminating.
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:03 pm
by Gaz
Blu wrote: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
I had a crack with an LSW on rock'n'roll mode as an air cadet. Which was a good laugh, as I watched the middle of the Fig 11 gradually disintegrate under a concentrated hail of 5.56 ball!
Playing with a Minimi was good fun - sadly it was only on the DCCT simulated training range.
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:42 pm
by Steve E
Shooting .50'' Browning Machine gun, 5.56 SAW and M79 grenade launchers in competition at Camp Robinson Arkansas as part of the RAF Service Weapons Team.
Actually to be honest the best was firing GPMG with 2.Bit from the door mounting of Wessex HC2 into Paphos bay at dusk and hitting the floating targets. Holiday makers must have wondered what the hell was going on.
Re: What is the most fun thing you ever shot?
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:50 pm
by Burner
blue" shells?
Well the color blue indicates a inert training projectile.
The ones in the photo are for the 25mm Bushmaster chain gun.
Meaning the bullet head itself is a harmless bit of metal. No depleted uranium, no armor pericing, no high explosive, no incendary, ect.
Just a blue painted hunk of metal. It will still make a big hole just not as nasty of a hole.
All the other bits and parts on the gun carrage frame are needed bits to make the gun useable. Controls and motor drives for elevatation, traverse, auto loading mechanical goodies, means to move spent casings away, a place to put your arse, sighting equipment and a cup holder for your mug.
