Is the MkII cone flash hider and the front sight base all one piece or do they separate?
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Is the MkII cone flash hider and the front sight base all one piece or do they separate?
They were made in TWO parts, brazed together. Do they separate....? Yes, if you care to unbraze them. Incidentally, Enfield did unbraze them and used the foresight block part on the 7.62mm L4 barrel fluted flash eliminators. This is the reason why you'll see the CRD or JI or other manufacturers logos on much later L4 barrel flash eliminator assemblies. Waste not, want not and all that........
Thank you Peter.
I am left handed and am making me a set of sights I can use on the opposite side.
I suppose you could rotate the backsight cursor through 180 degrees too. But your setting-up and machining of the foresight block to take the new securing pin will have to be very accurate. Personally, like the SA80/L85, I'd just learn to shoot it right handed - but each to his own
Didn’t the military have a rather quick solution for people who thought they were lefty shooters? ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by nineteenhundred
In the old days...but later we taught them how to best use their misguided unhandiness... Except when it wasn't possible, like the 84mm Carl Gustav...
We used to call them 'cack-handers'. I'd forgotten about the 84mm Charlie Gee Jim. The gun with the biggest bang you could ever imagine. Incidentally, it was the Mk2 Bren flash eliminator that was used as the flash eliminator on the shortie barrelled experimental Mk4 type Sten guns if you're ever tempted to make a replica anyone
All joking aside, my 13yr old son.....with quite a bit of solid BREN MG time under his belt already, is truly messed up. He shoots “Right”, but is left-eye dominant, so he takes a truly bizarre stance when sighting a weapon. That said.....he’s damn good.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Yes, we had those too. That's why the first thing I'd do in rifle one class was check for dominant eye...we had a guy shoot the PWT with an eyepatch from the FA kit looking like a pirate. He shot very well...Quote:
Originally Posted by TactAdv
I think that we had a few cack-handers or left eye dominant shooters but as I seem to recall, in the 60's and well into the 70's, the MT wing sadists (the Military Training Wing) trainers didn't recognise anything non-standard. Not sexual orientation, religion, marital status, or ethnicity other that European. Nothing else - except what we called at the time, NATO standard! For the non-Infantry/Corps troops types attached to the Infantry Regiments, we had a Military Training morning or afternoon once a week. First a half hours Drill to loosen up a bit or run around the field. Then out in the field, classroom, field training area or ranges and by the end of the morning everyone shot '..... NATO standard'!
BAR amd Muffer were the bane of our existence as Corps troops!
I see one General is complaining about fatties in the Army........... Not in my day they weren't, believe me!
I had occasion to have a class full of clerks for weapons training. I spoke in private with my counterpart, a clerk WO and told her we were there to familiarize in my impression as we couldn't teach GPMG in 2x 40 min classes... So that's what we did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Not much for sure. Controlled environment can do that for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Yes Jim. I remember everyone trying to skive off the mil training periods, using all sorts of rubbish excuses....., the sick, lame and lazy, the clerks and the cooks with more important jobs to be done etc etc. But we'd all been trained initially so after the first half hour of running around and a bit of drill to loosen up he rest of the morning (or afternoon) was pretty relaxed...., just to sharpen us all up a bit. Last half hour weapon cleaning, tidying up the area or classroom, hand weapons and stores in, debrief and that was it. It took more effort to skive off than do the training. Strangely, the RAEME recovery mechanics (the reccy-mecks) were always good at the military training because they were always at the sharp end of the trouble. Happy times
I told them if they were on a GPMG then it was because the dozers had already covered our trenches and they were defending themselves. Drills were more of a familiarization and how things "Feel"... Then sign the papers they brought and send them back to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler