Found this footage which I found very interesting and in formative
RR7542A UK: SCHOOL FOR SNIPERS - YouTube
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Found this footage which I found very interesting and in formative
RR7542A UK: SCHOOL FOR SNIPERS - YouTube
Interesting. Shame that some of the sound track has been doubled up. Note how some of the course are disguising their faces with their hand(s) as they're filmed. I would guess that those are, er......., 'specialists' of some sort or another. And I don't mean cooks! Loads of old No2 and No5 binos there too.....
Bolts seem sticky on the range.
Interesting video, it confirms my thoughts that the old style Denison smocks had a far better camouflage pattern than the current MTP smocks. Come to that for northern temperate climes there was nothing wrong with DPM when it was current issue.
I agree entirely regarding the suitability of the DPM pattern material in Northern Europe. But as one wag commented when the new alice-in-wonderland pattern was accepted/adopted, that we've got the pattern for everything but good for nothing
PL is the green on the rifles, the "sniper tape" we use today? Normally the Bain of any REME Tech, as the sniper is normally loathed to remove it, for inspection of the weapon.
I find this rear footage helpful to see how they, used the equipment, and what worked for them at the time. Not much has changed!
Yep, that tape is the army equivalent of young drivers 'go-faster' tape. It's also called invisible tape as it is said to make your kit invisible to the enemy
As a drop short we didn't really do the sniper thing except for NI, and once there we just carried them in the same way we carried and used the SLR.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanL96a1
However back in Germany my Battery supported 3 RGJ who gave a us a lot of training prior to deployment in NI and I remember L42A1's with a lot of hessian and sniper veil scrim, all held together with black nasty if this helps?
Strangely Brown this is the type of camouflage set up I have seen on the L42's, in the video below it shows the RM in 85 the L42 with gaffa tape, and all the normal hessian and scrim. It also confirm how good the WW2 patten smock and trousers, were to blend into the environment.
(beware some nasty images to start with).
Royal Marines: Behind the Lines: Episode 4 - Now You Dont - YouTube
Strangely Brown, I was 3 RGJ in Celle, Germany. We did a tour of Belfast in the early eighties and sadly one of your guys was killed by a head shot. I think the guys name was Utteridge.
It was common practice for our L42's to be taped up as illustrated below.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...dntlxcic-1.jpg
Surgeon Commander Rick Jolly a good friend on that first video ..........."now you don't."
Not one man wounded, who entered the whaling station where he had set up his surgical team died........thats the credit down to the man and his medics!:thup:
I suspect that was a lad from the regiment that took over from us in Hohne.
We only lost one lad and that was in 1976, I believe he was the first soldier to murdered by an M60 machine gun in the province.
I thought you would like to see this, I took it in 1973 and it shows 3 lads from 3 RGJ training 143 Bty RA in Hohne.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...standard-4.jpg
Chosenman thanks for the photo, nice shot of night fire with IWS. Do you know when the tape, was adopted over the traditional scrim and hessian? It seems the norm from 76 onwards. Thanks for sharing these photos, for me it's nice to see them in action. As "my age group" grew up with L96, and I have had the misfortune too miss out on this era.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ydzxfcty-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...06872556-1.jpg
Strangely Brown, we only went to Hohne to the Roundhouse NAAFI to get our yellow handbags!
DanL96a1, we were taping our L42's up from early 1980's, but it was probably being done long before my time and was standard practice right up to when they went out of service with us in 1988. In all honesty you didn't miss much. You can ask any guy who trained on the L42 and then experienced the transition to L96 and most don't have a good word to say about it. They were a brut to shoot and they broke down, a lot! My battalion never had the same eight rifles from one month to the next.
That's a .30 Browning with a BFA that's lost its yellow paint. Mind you, the notion that ANY paint could cope with the heat output of a Browning was pure wishful thinking! We got rid of the UK's last service Browning .30's when the last Centurion funnies and Ferrets went and a couple of years after that they were used as an 'exercise tool' just to use up the large stocks of blank. GREAT guns and probably the last of the true fitters guns
Yes it is, and he looks like he's fumbling...cover part open and bolt not fully forward. Can't even imagine what's he's doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler