Tunnel Gun...

[Peter Laidler]

Jeeeeeees Ed, there really IS such a thing. I'll have to be more selective with my phrases in the future. I was going to use another phrase I learned in Australia about being '...as much good a ti..s ......., er....... udders on a bull'

All have a nice pleasant, fine and safe Bank Holiday weekend won't you

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[Cruisey]

So from reading the answers to my original post, I would think that such a weapon did exist in small numbers, no doubt modified in the field.

Why you just wouldn't use an issued handgun, as Peter pointed out, I don't know, maybe supply was a problem, but then, weren't handguns only issued to certain ranks ?

In any case, an interesting topic.




(That bloody fish-on-a-bike is haunting me...look at its legs I have to stay off the Bundy !)

[Surpmil]

So from reading the answers to my original post, I would think that such a weapon did exist in small numbers, no doubt modified in the field.

Why you just wouldn't use an issued handgun, as Peter pointed out, I don't know, maybe supply was a problem, but then, weren't handguns only issued to certain ranks ?

Yup, always in short supply from my reading. Usually pinched off dead 'orficers' but lots of other takers closer to the scene of the action. Tunnellers probably didn't 'get out much'.

[Jollygreenslugg]

I recall an apocryphal story about a bloke in the top end of Australia who used a cut-down Smellie as a pistol for close-quarter crocodile shooting. Never heard of it beyond an apocryphal story though.

Cheers,
Matt