The SA80

[owdun]

Jimbo, I told you about that sling, get it blacked, now, or my office at 0800.


Aye Frank.

[harry hackedoff]

Sorry Bish

A Sodomite, maybe

I meant an Israelite

Artist, did they let you take the sling off it?
Thought not
Four forty minute periods to teach you how to fit and adjust it. Nice sling, shame about the rest of it

[TA_Padre]

Well I'll be bu99ered!

Knew it had to be wrong

P

[harry hackedoff]

What did you mean by "open handed" btw Bish?
Maybe he was an Armalite

[TA_Padre]

It means being a person who shows neither favour nor prejudice and is always what one would expect - that is not deviating from who you are.

An enviable state not achieved by that many people.

P

[JR]

Sorry Frank......But you must remember when we turned over from blanco to blackening numerous tins of 'cherry blossom' and apart from having to scrub all the Blanco off the old webbing, and blackening belt,pouches,gaitors,small pack and large pack oh and not forgetting the rifle sling it certainly kept us out of mischief during the 'Dogs' and of course short of money for the essential run ashore??.

Happy Days When the weapon of mass destruction was the Le-Enfield 303 Mk1V,in the right hands of course.Aye JR

[TA_Padre]

Harry,

had to tell you that I got an afternoon with the latest SA80 variant last week and found it to be a great deal better than I remembered the thing to be.

Actually enjoyed the thing! But that could be becuase I haven't shot since 2000

Congrats of anniversary by the way,

P

[harry hackedoff]

Thank you, your holyness
By the way, is it me or is the new pope sticking his nose in a bit much

[TA_Padre]

Haven't really been following Benny too much.

He's a pretty rigid, conservative, theologian and will undoubtedly be slowly reaffirming the basic tenets, some of which were eroded during the last stages of the previous Pope's tenure.

What's he been doing?

P

[harry hackedoff]

Naw. Lost me there mate
Do you have a daytime job, besides Bish, btw

[TA_Padre]

No such luck!

Fulltime God botherer. Used to work in City of London (well, based there - had global IT role) when I had a real job.

Engineer by trade and training - moved through many roles into present job.

P

[harry hackedoff]

Let`s just re-cap then, beefers in the Cof E is a "Good Fing" but catholic girls having sex with their priests is a "Bad Fing" is it? No wonder they`re farked then? Or maybe not.
Anyway, who cares?

Ref that wunnerful bangstick, the SA 80, I was recently reminded of a statistic which staggered me when I first heard it.
Young Elmer is a waz at the ole `putor there boy. `Specially statistics. Elmer can`t get enough statistics, in fact Elmer can tell you to six decimal places exactly how many statistics he can`t get enough of
After dubberyew dubberyew two, young Elmer set to countin` there boy, an` he come up with this gem.
He divided the total number of RIFLE rounds expended during dubberyew dubberyew two by American forces on all fronts by the number of fatalities directly attributed to RIFLE fire and the result is effing outragious. Without any arguement, because both figures are known. Twenty thousand rounds of rifle ammunition were expended per kill. Farking amazing. Once Elmer went to the Nam and swapped the good M14 7.62 for the shite M16 5.56 the results were even better Between TWO HUNDRED and FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND ROUNDS PER KILL fark me dead.
What does that tell you about modern weapons? Besides the fact that Elmer cant shoot
We`d be better off buying shares in Winchester for a start

[Humphreyscraig00]

Yes there is a sniper school with a big plaque making light of that somewhere in america. Cant remember which sniper school it is though...

In nam the average is 270,000 per kill IIRC...

Was it 20 000 in WW2? That surprises me, I thought it was more.

Do these figures count light/medium/General purpoose machine guns as rifles as that will probably push it up a bit...

[owdun]

Says a lot in favour of my old Lee-Enfield and men being trained to shoot well Too much of the point in general direction and blaze away school in todays armies. The logistics for supply of ammo must be bloody ridiculous.

Owdun.

[Frank S.]

The logistics for supply of ammo must be bloody ridiculous.

Owdun.

Truer words were never spoken...

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