feeding issues L1A1

[Gil Boyd]

Peter,
Yes it was Pakistan and the contracted stuff that caused us loads of dramas too, but included 9mm

[Peter Laidler]

I thought that the 9mm problem was Indian stuff. Full of curry powder while a good % of it was full of dynamite! Mind you some of the vidaloo they serve up at The Prince of India feels like dynamite in the mornings

[enbloc8]

The "Quadrefoil" mark - a sort of four bladed propeller is the NATO Interoperability mark. Ammunition bearing this mark is supposed to be able to safely fire in guns conforming to the standard.

Is this mark found on the ammunition itself, or only on the packaging? It sounds familiar but I can't recall ever seeing any ammunition with this mark. Plenty with the circle-in-cross though.

Thanks for all the other good information!

[Gil Boyd]

Peter,
I stand corrected it was India, all the same once, before we stuck our noses in. Well the curries are the same as you say in the morning

[newcastle]

Hello all - sorry ve been away form teh old interweb. Answers to a few quetsions.
1. yes i"m from Newcastle England - have a season ticket for St James Park but I now live in Kalifornia. I remember meetin Brina at teh show in Rneo he was selling a fully functions Vickers MG whihc i would have loved to buy, except for the CA laws (and the cash needed).
2. Appreciate the feedback on the feeding. Pretty certain that its the Magazine that was the glitch and I'll try it next week with teh corrcet mag, and note down gas setting and any problems and report back.

[Gil Boyd]

Newcastle,
My monies on that, its always one of the first IA's!

[tankhunter]

And all the 9mm Was considered so 'Unstable' to use. Obviously, the breech pressures varied enourmously! It was recommended for Training use only. And also ONLY to be used in Browning 9mm Pistols. As it was deemed 'safer' to use in a locked breech weapon. Than a Blowback SMG of that time period!......

Even this practice was curtailed, & I heard the remainder of the stocks we had. Were Sea Dumped, as was the usual disposal method use for MANY Years!......(Could you imagine that happening these Day's?...........

[mrclark303]

Morning Mike,

Talking about MOD disposal of unwanted material, I think a massive amount of gear went into the sea years ago, or into the ground ... Just up the road from me is a former RAF airfield, I worked with a guy for many years who was stationed there with a resident MU, well the "environmentally unsound" methods of disposal there (and I guess all round the country) were very much out of sight, out of mind, unwanted/obsolete parts/engines/ all types of fuels/ammo/ ANYTHING ... dig a big hole, bury it!

Going back 15 years ago when the MOD sold the site, the contractors had quite a job clearing out the buried dump and removing tons of heavily contaminated soil, job done ... or so you might think, when I bumped into the same chap a few years back and told him the dump had been cleared, he just looked at me with a rye smile and said which one!?

Like so many former airfields around the country, this site is due for development, so wait for the brown sticky stuff to hit the fan when the ground works starts!

[Gil Boyd]

Hope he doesn't mention there were also 48 crated Spitfires buried there to keep the myth alive on a differewnt continent

[tankhunter]

Hello John,
Yes, it was common practice to bury 'buckshee'/ unwanted equipment. that would have been an 'embarrasment' if found to be unaccounted for when found!........

My Father tells Me of the Hundreds & Hunderds of Stens & Bren's found in the normally unaccessable Roof rooms of Martinique Barracks in Hampshire after the candians went back home.
He had the task of stripping them all out for parts. & then getting a bulldozer to dig a LONG trench. 'Somwhere' in the woods around Bordon Garrison. Laying the weapons in a line, & the dozer pushing the soil over them all!........

Obviously, I have quizzed him over the location of this little treasure location. But He will only say, that after all these years. He cannot remember the location!!!.........

I will state with total confidence, that any Major Base or Airfield Location of former Military Occupation. will DEFINATELY yield 'Treasures' of a Military Nature, of some sort.
Due to similar 'Practices' of the time!.......