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    Beech Periscope Plans?

    Hi Guys, I want to make a Beech Rifle Periscope for a re-enactment coming up, does anyone have any plans? or know where I can get some. I know the layout looks simple enough but want to know what wood to use, thicknesses, how to attach it to the rifle, and more. any help would be gratefully appreciated.

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    At the end of this video you will see Tony Cattermole of HBSA using a periscope. It was borrowed from the NRA Collection for the day.


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    Good but not the type im looking for, the Beech rifle periscope like was used at Gallipoli. I did like the Vickers MG though.

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    The girl is letting the belt flap about too much. In real; life the gunner would give him (her) a swift kick as though to emphasise the point. Would look better if the gun No2 was laying alongside feeding the ammo UPwards and in.

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    I seem to recall somebody doing exactly that in a TV documentary a few years ago.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    The girl is letting the belt flap about too much. In real; life the gunner would give him (her) a swift kick as though to emphasise the point. Would look better if the gun No2 was laying alongside feeding the ammo UPwards and in.
    You should take look at the weapon handling in our previous shoot in 2013. It will make you weep. In some respects. it s pity that the RO shouted "stop" at one point because we would have recorded for prosperity, how to lose fingers to a Sten - classic stuff!

    I am told the the Home Office will only let certain people fire the weapons and the selection is based on their legal status rather than their competency.
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    I would question whether this 'not allowed to fire' is a Home Office ruling or a NRA on the hoof ruling and where its actual status is in law. The law forbids the possession of a machine gun and while the .............. anyway..... Merely handling a firearm is not deemed to be possession.

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    I recognize that gunner!! He's had a go with mine before too!!! Is that his girlfriend? Cut her some slack. She's kinda cute!!

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    I remember seeing another gunner somewhere on the Salisbury plain shooting a 1919 Browning in a documentary with his ear defenders on top of his head a few years ago. Eh?????????

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    It was her first day in the job, she didn.t do too bad!

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    It's YOU Colin......... I didn't recognise you! I have to say that of all the weaponry that we could fire, the slow old Vickers was/is still the one that winds my clock up. Sentiment...., perhaps but from the last of the Vickers trained Armourers it's acceptable. And at the place where the last of the Vickers were withdrawn. From Gurkhas along the hill forts on the Borneo Indon border. Summer '68

    Forgot to say....... Paratroopers were also using them in the Radfan and withdrawn at the same time

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