Tunnel Gun...

[Edward Horton]

JBS

I forgot to tell you, I have the movie with English subtitles so I can understand what the Australians are saying.









"Crikey"

[Son]

A couple of pics of the smoke discharger set up Peter mentioned...

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Singleton, nsw. 1943-01. The smokeshell discharger attached to a matilda tank of the 2nd army tank battalion. The firing mechanism is that of a .303 no1 mkIII lee enfield action with trigger removed and a cable substituted, leading to the inside of the tank, from where it is fired. The propellant charge is detonated by a blank cartridge of .303 ammunition. The barrels may be fired simultaneously

[Peter Laidler]

That's them. We had a few in our armoury and nobody really knew what they were so we gave them to the Tankie place at Bovington. What could put you off a bit is having to get out or at least partially out, to reload them!

Digressing a bit............. What should put off any potential tankis is the thought that you were going to be up against the Milan missile. And if that wasn't enough, the Raeathon Javelin missile. I think that between them, they've put an end to tanks. The joke doing the round at present is
Q - What is 2 feet long, 5" round, breathes fire, is khaki coloured and fu**s tanks?
A - Javelin

[RJW NZ]

I keep seeing our own version of this here in NZ, it seems to be popular to commit yet more indignities to a sporterized enfield and cut a lot off the front, they get used on pig hunts and everyone seems to want them really short. It'd be interesting to know if its done for ease of hiking into the bush, or for ease of chase when the dogs begin to bail up the oinker, and you're running like mad through thick brush, or if its so the hunter can hold the pig down with one hand (!) and put one close up between the eyes, you'd do this cos the dogs go nuts and would easily run into a shot, so you'd need it point blank.

Here's a similar version but this barrel is longer than most pig guns - Lee enfield 303 for sale - TradeMe.co.nz - New Zealand

I suppose the flash would de bristle that pork pretty good - yum, instant crackling.

[JBS]

Kind of like a New Zealand version of a Mares Laig'

[nzl1a1collector]

I can confirm these things make a Trucking HUGE blast especially at night, I my youth I got to play with a similar toy before it was scrapped. You need to wear a welding mask to enable you to see where to aim for the next shot.... great fun thou.

Thunderbox is pretty well correct so far as the paperwork is concerned. I have only ever found two references to officially cut down rifles and both these are recorded as '....... previously unserviceable for field use.......'. These were the smoke discharger thinggy that went on the outside of light tanks early in the last war and the trench mortar firing things that are referred to as 'initiators'

It's like most things. Given a hacksaw and a set of gas bottles, then anything is possible.

Having said that, I'd like to set one up in a jig on the forensic test range at Shrivenham and record some data as a matter of interest. Unless anyne has some data already. Several years ago this would have been an interesting subject but commerciality has taken over - more's the shame!

[Cruisey]

"STOP" drinking O.P. Bundy and going to the movies, your killing thousands of brain cells and destroying your memory.

It NOT "Below" its "Beneath Hill 60".....................

I stand corrected Ed, ....I now know why I have never been able to find "Beneath the planet of the Apes" at the video library

[Beerhunter]

"camouflet" ???

Underground explosion. One constructs an 'ole, packs it with explosive and then blows it.

In my day it was used as a method of cratering roads and runways as follows: Drill a hole in the road using an auger, push some PE down to the bottom of the drill hole and blow it. Now pack the resultant cavity under the surface with even more HE and blow that. Result: one big crater.

[villiers]

MARKED. "No listening after use!"

[Edward Horton]

I stand corrected Ed, ....I now know why I have never been able to find "Beneath the planet of the Apes" at the video library

Cruisey

I have "Beneath Hill 60" with English subtitles so I can understand what you Australians are saying.









You Australians really know how to have a blast.