Yep........ now do the same thing in a dark eerie green jungle environment and at the same time, not be too sure whether the rifle is going to run out of puff and re-cock - or not!
Yep........ now do the same thing in a dark eerie green jungle environment and at the same time, not be too sure whether the rifle is going to run out of puff and re-cock - or not!
That sounds a lot like the original M16 in the jungles of Vietnam.
As I understand it, (library pictures support this too) most of the Vietnam full auto "chop mods" simply cut back the FE, the idea apparently to make it boom like a .50 cal, so I have read.
It really would be very interesting to hear from veterans who either carried out the work or indeed used them in anger.
It's such a little know part of the inch pattern story, great to finally drag it into the light and get some hard facts.
Well, I carried them for 15 years and some of it in Canungra Queensland, some of in desert and some in the arctic. Most was temperate climate. I can't imagine why you'd want your rifle noisier. The NVA wouldn't be as impressed by noise as they would be by gunshot wounds. More flash gives you away quicker in any case.
Yep, I feel fanciful description, to sell this Deact for more money!.......
Now, does anyone want to buy an L1A1 with a bolt on cigar holder. Formally owned by Fidel Castro. Full providence can be supplied from my Printer if required. He got it from a WWII Vet who used it at Arnhem, after capturing it from a German SS Stormtrooper who was in Full dress at the time.
I bought it from a bloke down the Pub, who swore on his beermat it is genuine!..........
Yep, I feel fanciful description, to sell this Deact for more money!.......
In this case, considerably more money Mike!
I seem to recall another flight of fancy "special army soldier" folding stock L1A1 on line recently. That example was predictively, a folder Fal TMH with an L1A1 barrel and receiver.
Just a few bored RAEME types with nothing better to do.
At least you could kill and cook your chook with that muzzle flash.........might be a survival thing.
Perhaps they wanted the psychological effect on the NVA troops big noise, flash and heaps of lead in the air. Would not do ones eyes much good either in the dark you would not be seeing or hearing to much for a while. Mick said on the improvised testing range they never wore ear protection either as when they were on patrol you did not have it either.
Also in the book pertaining to the psychological war they used to drop leaflets advising the NVA in Vietnamese the SAS were coming to kill them and to fill in the back of the form as to where they wanted to be buried. From memory from a book I read somewhere the NVA called our SAS "The Ghosts of the Jungle" or words to that effect.
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