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I never did see the interest in lying around with a gun to pretend to shot things

It's mainly a 'boy' thing I think, though I do know a few friends of my son who do both ACF and airsofting (see 'Olympic petition' forum.

blondie95 wrote:I never did see the interest in lying around with a gun to pretend to shot things

We did shoot things. called targets. And if you were me, won a medal for doing so!

blondie95 wrote:I never did see the interest in lying around with a gun to pretend to shot things

So no interest in lying around at all, then Amy ??

I await DBTS's response with baited breath !

I did CCF on my UF and GE and loved doing the shooting. I was very good at stripping, cleaning and reassembling those ancient things we used. Didn't much like the being shouted at, gallumphing around assault courses or night exercises with aforementioned thunderflashes (I'm sure that set off my 'nerves'!) though, but shooting and drill was ok.

cj wrote:I did CCF on my UF and GE and loved doing the shooting. I was very good at stripping, cleaning and reassembling those ancient things we used. Didn't much like the being shouted at, gallumphing around assault courses or night exercises with aforementioned thunderflashes (I'm sure that set off my 'nerves'!) though, but shooting and drill was ok.

You must have had the same R.S.M. I had, though I didn't really see him as that old !

I can sense a DIVERT ALERT coming on !!

J.R. wrote:

blondie95 wrote:I never did see the interest in lying around with a gun to pretend to shot things

So no interest in lying around at all, then Amy ??

I await DBTS's response with baited breath !

well, thats not me writing clearly but J.R mis reading! I don't like the idea of lying around in mud and cold weather at night etc, pretending to shoot at things!

Other lying around well it depends......

My son was an army cadet and his troop(?) won the summer camp drill competition under a female Sergeant

J.R. wrote:

cj wrote:I did CCF on my UF and GE and loved doing the shooting. I was very good at stripping, cleaning and reassembling those ancient things we used. Didn't much like the being shouted at, gallumphing around assault courses or night exercises with aforementioned thunderflashes (I'm sure that set off my 'nerves'!) though, but shooting and drill was ok.

You must have had the same R.S.M. I had, though I didn't really see him as that old !

I can sense a DIVERT ALERT coming on !!

I've just barfed in my bedtime horlicks at the thought of that.

englishangel wrote:My son was an army cadet and his troop(?) won the summer camp drill competition under a female Sergeant

Think about that statement VERY carefully, Mary !

blondie95 wrote:

J.R. wrote:

blondie95 wrote:I never did see the interest in lying around with a gun to pretend to shot things

So no interest in lying around at all, then Amy ??

I await DBTS's response with baited breath !

well, thats not me writing clearly but J.R mis reading! I don't like the idea of lying around in mud and cold weather at night etc, pretending to shoot at things!

Other lying around well it depends......

...... on ....?

.... the weather, perhaps?

englishangel wrote:My son was an army cadet and his troop(?) won the summer camp drill competition under a female Sergeant

..... do they do piggy back drill then, these days?

This thing about lying around with a gun as if to try to kill someone, I don't think any of us thought we'd ever have to do that. It was more a matter of hoping to get all the bullets through the same hole; a forlorn hope with a bren gun in which getting all 25 rounds anywhere on the 6" square target was an achievement. The bren would jump around uncontrollably, and the idea was to keep its bipod on the ground if possible.

One other memory I have is that by the time I got into the Air Section there was a glider, a Kirby Cadet if I remember rightly. It had a simple open frame fuselage with 'proper' fabric-covered wings and tail surfaces, was doped silver with RAF roundels, yellow trainer bands and serial number. It was held together with bolts and steel cables, and was assembled according to a set of instruction cards. It took so long to assemble that by the time it was ready it had to be dismantled again and put in its garage near the min. rifle range. I do recall however having a few slides in it, barely enough to get the feel of the air on the control surfaces. On at least one occasion we did see it get airborne for a few yards until the elastic ropes ran out of woomph. I wonder what happened to it; presumably it was Air Ministry property.