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sorry, photos were on photobucket, and are now not! Ben
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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.
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You must have had the same R.S.M. I had, though I didn't really see him as that old !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.
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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!J.R. wrote:So no interest in lying around at all, then Amy ??blondie95 wrote:I never did see the interest in lying around with a gun to pretend to shot things
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Other lying around well it depends......
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I've just barfed in my bedtime horlicks at the thought of that.J.R. wrote:You must have had the same R.S.M. I had, though I didn't really see him as that old !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.
I can sense a DIVERT ALERT coming on !!
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...... on ....?blondie95 wrote: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!J.R. wrote:So no interest in lying around at all, then Amy ??blondie95 wrote:I never did see the interest in lying around with a gun to pretend to shot things
I await DBTS's response with baited breath !
Other lying around well it depends......
.... the weather, perhaps?
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Re: CCF photos
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.
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.