Could I politely request that members who have yet to fire a round in anger from whatever weapon they enjoy please refrain from entering a pissing contest to those that have, its only going to get personal and spiral into a slagging contest
By which measure I once fired a 81mm mortar in anger and missed the coont by miles.
Soon sent back to my slit trench to count my brufen stocks.
Actually if truth be known my fall of shot indicator was more of a puff than a boom..........................safety pin was left in situ as I plopped it down the tube
93,94,95................ok ones missing......whos had a femoral bleed and used a brufen????????????????
Doc wrote:Could I politely request that members who have yet to fire a round in anger from whatever weapon they enjoy please refrain from entering a pissing contest to those that have, its only going to get personal and spiral into a slagging contest
By which measure I once fired a 81mm mortar in anger and missed the coont by miles.
Soon sent back to my slit trench to count my brufen stocks.
Doc wrote:Tom................ my Mum died, March this year mate, may have noticed my post count went quiet for about 3 weeks.
Stu
very sorry to hear that mate, and sorry about the Mum joke too. Obviously I wasn't to know.
It must have been your sister!!
By the way, we had an Aussie attached to us in Afghan who put a 51 mil bomb downrange in a contact. There was no bang, and he thought he'd fired a dud until I asked him if he'd taken the safety pin out........nob!
Doc wrote:Could I politely request that members who have yet to fire a round in anger from whatever weapon they enjoy please refrain from entering a pissing contest to those that have, its only going to get personal and spiral into a slagging contest
Might as well include anyone who hasn't fired 'all of the above mentioned' weapons.
Steve,
You're making it up about the YO aren't you? Please tell me you are... On second thoughts.........
Greenronnie wrote:
very sorry to hear that mate, and sorry about the Mum joke too. Obviously I wasn't to know.
It must have been your sister!!
Obviously I was joking about the Mum bit hoping to get a bite and in true Ronnie fashion, just as I thought I had you you drop the sister sound bit! Cnut!
Anyone brave enough to shag my sister deserves the VC...............or is that VD?
Doc wrote:Obviously I was joking about the Mum bit hoping to get a bite and in true Ronnie fashion, just as I thought I had you you drop the sister sound bit! Cnut!
Thing is, that's a crap joke mate, stand by for pm.
We went into Suez with the old 303 Enfields and came up against the AK 47, and that was not a lot of fun. Fortunately the Egyptians had been throwing crates of the AK 47s of lorries hoping that the local population would pick them up and fight the infidels, well they seem to have had better sense and they left them there for us.