I have just been flicking though a book that just showed up in my mailbox "The Lee Enfield Rifleicon" By Martin Pegler. On page 68, he shares a little story from a 2 Para trooper in the Falklands.

A bullet shot past my face. it was so close i felt it physically. All of us dived automatically for the ground.

Someone called out "It's a fu##ing sniper."

To our rear i noticed a bush. Not that surprising, we were in a field, but this bush was different, it was moving. It became apparent that it was not a bush, but a member of our sniper platoon. He jumped up on the wall. Two more rapid shots flew over. The bush remained on the wall and from out from underneath one of his branches pulled a pair of binoculars.

"Definitely a sniper" declared the bush... and with that he finally jumped down off the wall and crawled off to our right. After about twenty meters he stopped, aimed his rifle and fired a single shot.

"I think i got him" said the bush.

After the battle, the Britishicon bush had gone in search of the the Argentinian bush. On Finding him he discovered that he had shot him clean through the head at a distance of over 1000 meters.
I love this little story so much, not so much the L42 part in it, but that dry sense of British humor about the "British Bush", It cracks me up, it cant be beaten as far as I'm concerned

Pegler sites K.Lukowiak A Soldiers Song as the reference for this quote. Seems like another book i have to find
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