I just found the funnest Lee Enfield video

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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler

I saw one of these video's where that wild old colonial in the IQ reducer cap was telling us in the civilised world that the BAR was better than the Bren. Someone needs to give him a stiff talking to................ Something better than a Bren....... I should coco!

If I hear that again, I'll get send a gunboat over there and take the Americas back. That'll teach them a lesson!

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Dont forget the flingy thingy

No cheek from you wild antipodeans either Bindi or I'll send another gunboat back and take Oz and NZ back. THrow you all in the slammer and I'll come back as the Governor General. Then I'll rescind all the restrictive gun laws

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Originally Posted by Son

Haven't had a fresh look, but if it's the vid I watched a while back, the operator with the No1 needs some basic instruction... so unco he couldn't beat time with a stick!

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Agree. That was pathetic. Takes the rifle off his shoulder to reload, actually lets go of the bolt knob at one point and flips it back and then grasps it again.

I think it was 1886 the French started with smokeless powder.

Well before the yanks copied the 30-06 from the German 8X57 round,
and OH yes the springfield was also a COPY of the Paul Mauser rifle
that knocked the stuffing out of the yanks in a little fight with I think it was the Spanish.
I read that the yanks lost a court battle over paying the compensation to Paul Mauser for copying the pattern, and still did not pay up using, I think, the excuse the Germans started WW1.

Peter

Have you not heard both the Governer General and PM gigs down here are now a role for women.

How can a woman represent the Queen????? :-)

Happy to see you get the role if you do actually sort out the gun laws.

Paul

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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler

No cheek from you wild antipodeans either Bindi or I'll send another gunboat back and take Oz and NZ back. THrow you all in the slammer and I'll come back as the Governor General. Then I'll rescind all the restrictive gun laws

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When can you start.
Jeez what is taking you so long the beer not warm enough.

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Originally Posted by mike1967

Not sure about Ermey's comment in regards to the 30/06 being the first smokeless round, i am very sure it was the French with their "Poudre B" in the Lebel round that came first.

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Not only was the 8mm Lebel the first ctg adopted by a nation to use smokless powder (1886) it was the first to use a boat tail bullet in 1898.