WW1 Tunnel Modified' SMLE

[browningautorifle]

Unfortunately troops I guess this critter has been fed and now won't leave. It's like the Tanker Garand. They made a couple and found them unsuccessful but there sure are a lot around. Quite a few originals too! Just ask the owner. He'll tell you. Same with the #1 MkIII shorty. Tried but unsuccessful. A bunch of those around too. I know, I built one for a guy myself...

[enfield303t]

I'm not an avid film goer but a reasonably sensible sort of chap who has a firm grasp on what we poms call '.........the bleedin obvious'. And to me, as one who has been close to an L42 fired across a room by a holed-up Gurkha sniper, The mere notion that anyone......., anyone that is, except a true clown who hasn't got a firm grasp of the bleedin' obvious would take a cut down full-house rifle into a tunnel is not on this orbitory planet.

Come on chaps................... Lets have a degree of common sense.............. I understand what the 'stories' say, but these 'tunnel' guns might help if you're advertising one to sell to another chump, but............. I'll tell you what. Sit in your small garage or something similar in diameter to a tunnel, take your ear-boxes off and fire a live round from a, say, 9mm pistol a few feet into a target. But better still, get your wife and kids in there to represent your tunnelling mates............... THey'll tell you a few home truths when they've got their hearing back - if ever

Cut off tunnelling rifles.......................... What's the current parlance......... Get real!

Peter, interesting post. My dad was overseas in WWI and told me he knew of "battles" underground when tunnelers broke into the other sides tunnel. I always envisioned hand tools, knives and possibly a .38 revolver being used..what do you think?

I shot a .300 Win. Magnum in a location that was "stupid" and paid the price for a couple of days, never thought about the muzzle blast 'till it was too late.

[xa-coupe]

I was slightly in front and to the side a .223 once and am partially deaf in one ear as result. This was outdoors too. Anything louder than flatulence in a tunnel is going to hurt.

[Peter Laidler]

BAR made the best comment (see page 1, comment 5) on this tunnel gun fairy story that I've ever heard. Nothing more need be said. The notion that after the stunning shock of the blast you could do anything but stand there like a dazed zombie afterwards is.................. Have you ever been in a training house when it's assaulted with a stun grenade? Think stun grenade

[BushyFromOz]

I was slightly in front and to the side a .223 once and am partially deaf in one ear as result. This was outdoors too. Anything louder than flatulence in a tunnel is going to hurt.

And yet martin bryant supposedly fired 29 .223 rounds inside a confined space without hearing protection (supposedly) and was able to function perfectly well.