To: Cannoneer No. 4
"The field artillery is fun, but it gets old after a while, said Pulido, who usually works as the guy on the gun team who gets to pull the lanyard and fire the weapon."
LOL!
I never got tired of firing.
7 posted on
02/07/2004 8:26:39 AM PST by
Darksheare
(The SCARES will haunt the mind, eventually inducing derangement and senility!)
To: Darksheare
Yeah, how can you get tired of making the gun go boom? I don't get tired pulling the lanyard, but sponging the bore on a hot day with a new sponge takes it toll after about 20 rounds. But you breech loader guys wouldn't know anything about that.
9 posted on
02/07/2004 9:40:09 AM PST by
Cannoneer No. 4
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