The Lee Enfield Rifle MK 1-5 has been used throughout the world, and as you say, modified to take different calibres other than .303; I have even heard of it being bored out and used as a riot control 410 shot gun!

The fact that the SMLE was still being used, through out the world, as a sniper ...

I have tried the SA80-2 and have never had any trouble with it, I found it a very accurate weapon, and easy to handle. It is much better weapon than the old .303 which I had use in combat, but that never jammed and was a good gun, and it also made a good club.


Tab, seeing you were in when the ...

The SA80 is and always will be an overly complicated, heavy, rusting, frail piece of shit that is typical of political moneymen getting in the way of common sense.

The same fu**ing idiots tried to replace the GPMG with that other f**king joke – the LSW.

It’s fat fu**ing Craphat generals that mince ...

Do Royal Marines still consider themselves the thinking mans soldier?

I served with the marines on Ops in Ireland and in that time had the opportunity to notice how they live and work.

The difference was this attitude to cleaning themselves in the field I was told it is a RM training policy “ if ...

I would take anything over that piece of crap - only someone who has never taken that weapon into the field would thing it as effective.

The snaring and eating of rabbits was common practice at Depot Para during the 80s, but was down to the individual platoon staff.

It was carried out during Basic Wales initially and there are plenty of stories of recruits having a hard time killing a live animal close up (slotting birds with an air ...

If you think you have problems tabbing now, how do you think you would have done with a pair of DMS boots thrown at you. Prior to the combat high boot being issued to the blokes some time after the Falklands, you had to Tabb in the same bloody things as the Guards used for stagging on outside Buck ...