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[Flying10uk]

I have to ask the obvious question of how many rifles were dropped when the Pakistani soldiers in Post 1 were practising for their parade. Years ago, we did have a sergeant in the Army Cadets who sometimes tried to encourage the throwing of rifles between cadets but it was never done very eloquently or anything like in Post 1. It was just an all out effort to catch the thing as it came flying through the air towards you. I always managed to catch the rifle which was probably down to luck more than anything but other Cadets did, on occasions, drop the rifles. They are a heavy thing to try to catch when flying through the air towards you.

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[browningautorifle]

I have to ask the obvious question of how many rifles were dropped

The simplest answer would be...all of them.

Hadn't seen that vid about the "One double five"... Takes two minutes to bring into action. That's because of the ridiculous parade square drills, some dating back two hundred years. My little brother was arty, he'd be beating these people...