New Lithgow No. 1 Mk. III*

[Homer]

1934 to 1938, all very low production and extremely scarce. Particularly good matching examples.

[Peter Laidler]

Don't laugh Cinders (thread 20) about losing a weapon. I left mine on the ranges at the Batu Caves range complex (I think it was near Kuala Lumpur) after a bit of confusion with the range detail and the butt party. There wasn't any confusion when we got back to camp and the CQMS asked me where my rifle was - and no, it wasn't with the dopey bloke who's rifle I had cleaned by mistake! I drove all the way back just as the locals were picking up the uncollected brass! There it was, still laying on the 600 yard firing point! Phew........... Not another word was said. Thanks CQMS Clatworthy who was a pom emigrant from Castlemaine

[Bandit12]

Peter, where could I find an aero spec wood adhesive? This sounds like just the stuff I need for replacing Bubba bobbed Ross fore ends...

T-88 is what you want if you are after adhesives used in aircraft. Should be plenty available in Canada if we can get it downunder too.....

[CINDERS]

Good for you Peter that would have kept the faith, that not all CQMS breath fire and eat underlings for breakfast and quite possibly somewhere along his career he had made a genuine mistake and not been hung drawn and quartered according to the Queens regulations. (I say that as Queen Elizabeth has been our Monarch for many a year)

[Peter Laidler]

He was a bit of an ogre but I have to say that he looked after me again later on as well when he 'overlooked' the paperwork that followed me for having lost some kit somewhere.

Re the rifle....... I'd already resigned myself to the fact that it wouldn't be there when I got back and thought that if I mysteriously 'found' the breech block and carrier, numbered to the rifle, on the range, it wouldn't look as bad as the rifle would have been unuseable. Unuseable - until it was re-captured somewhere, then I'd be in even DEEPER shi, er.........., hot water! Wasn't so funny then of course!

I'd had a charmed life up to then because a year or so earlier I'd had a ND (Negligent Discharge) on the range while fixing a jammed-up unloaded Bren that suddenly fired!

[muffett.2008]

Great blokes, I remember one particular TEWT, the CQMS had a BSA he rode around on, busted me and my mate for shirking duty,(snoozing on the roof) gave us kitchen duty as punishment.
Poor bugger, couldn't get his bike going next morning, backfired and smashed the OC's office window with the spud we'd shoved up his exhaust, didn't bust us again.

Funny thing, he was the father of our current GG, Peter Cosgrove.

[Brian Dick]

Damn Peter, I thought I was the only one…… We coined the term "OH S--T MOMENT" when those things happen. Luckily I can count them on less than one hand in my time!!

[Peter Laidler]

One day I'll tell of the unloaded jammed up Bren that fired........... Not so damned funny then I hasten to add!

[CINDERS]

Had the Range officer ring gear me when I put the Bren on "R" for a 10 round in your own time course of fire, so sight nicely as we had already had a couple of rounds and a gentle squezzzzzzze stuff me dead like a plucked chook at chicken treat those 10 rounds followed each other!
You clot he screeched I said R not A, oh well I exclaimed "Sir I did put it on R" but the damage was done and as I was the only duffer on the range to do that of the whole detail, I would have to admit maybe I did become a bit confused and put the selector in the wrong spot but why the bloody heck could it not have been on SAFE?

When I was teaching my wife to shoot my Ruger Super Redhawk 44 mag handgun now that was scary moment.........

[flying pig]

T-88 is what you want if you are after adhesives used in aircraft. Should be plenty available in Canada if we can get it downunder too.....

Awesome, thank you!