Posted on 10/05/2003 7:28:55 AM PDT by knighthawk
IMHO a few LP/OP 's strung out with thermal could call in blackhawks and use their GAU2B's on the pipeline sappers. The surgical precision of a "trained" sniper is a waste of assets IMHO when used in such a manner as this. Where the lines pass thru urban or built up areas.....yes. Across the desert........no. Just my opinion of course.
Stay Safe Archy !!............Gurka babes ??? they sure are Purdy !
Remember that the screw-type ejector of the British Service Model Lee Enfield upon which the Ishapore 2A and 2A1 .308 Bolt rifles were based [they're not a *pure* #1 Mk III S.M.L.E., though Ishapore previously made some fine ones] was meant to be used with the rimmed .303 cartridge, and may give much less satisfactory results with rimless .308/ 7,62 NATO cartridges, depending on which of the very many versions of .308/7,62 brass is used- The cartridge is loaded in a bewildering variety of variations in many different countries and at many different periods in the last six decades, and rim dimensions may differ. And when the British were searching for a similar conversion for their #4 Mark 1 [T] rifles converted to 7,62mm as L42A1 sniper's rifles, they went to a very different arrangement, with a seperate ejector permanently welded to the body of the magazine instead.
For additional info, check out Njaneer's Ishapore collector's info or one of the several Enfield owner/user/collector's sites. Or freepmail me.
But I far, FAR prefer the Enfields in their original chambering, not only for reliabilities sake.
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All my M1A's are fed mexican match from Lake City or Federal Match 168gr commercial. I reload for hunting and IDPA competition but stick to commercial or issue for working guns.
My goal righ now is to find an brookfeild M1A scope mount. Ebay had one a few months ago but at 300$ I had to go to work and lost the bid. Every see one laying around scream at me ! Alledgedly Smith Inc has the mount closest in make to the Brookfield version but I haven't tried it yet.
The early SA scopes (1987-88 timeframe) were actually made by Burris and used their RAC technology. Who makes these for SA these days ??
Stay Safe and reload safer !
Now to get back to fighting weight ........Stay Safe Eaker !
LOL!
Those little radios are actually quite amazing ... built with surface mount components, they will run several days on 3 AA's ... with a 'special buy' in quantity they can be operating in another band quite easily, incorporate such features as 'power saver' for extended receive life, utilize UHF which is an ideal frequency urban areas (inside metal framed glass-enclosed vehicles like cars, HUMVEES) ... some are even water proof ... none of the old 'Jobcoms' or Wilsons were any of that ...
The Gurkhas are still very much operational, though moreso in the Indian and Pakistani military formations than in the scaled-back british, and there's a rumble going about that a Gurkha seconded to the SAS picked up a nomination for the VC in an incident involving the use of a kukri inside a cave in Afghanistan. They're scaled back among the Brits indeed, but seem to be happily absorbed as detatchments among the Irish Rifles and signals/transport regiment, among others. But yes, think British Gurkha companies and battalions now, rather than regiments.
I've got several khukuris, including the one I first got from them when involved with one of their *little projects* back in 1967. Interesting fellas: they treat sports like a war, and war like a sport. The last time I was out and about with them, the First Sergeant with us had his Randall 17 Astronaut/survival knife along, and the Gurkhas were very impressed with it, reckoning Randall-kami to be a pretty good blacksmith, and inquiring as to which village his forge was located in.
IMHO a few LP/OP 's strung out with thermal could call in blackhawks and use their GAU2B's on the pipeline sappers. The surgical precision of a "trained" sniper is a waste of assets IMHO when used in such a manner as this.
Strikes me as a great training exercise for those just out of the trade schools, though, with maybe one or two of the more experienced trigger techs around should something real interesting turn up, and to supervise.
Where the lines pass thru urban or built up areas.....yes. Across the desert........no. Just my opinion of course.
All generalities are untrue, and combat ops are sufficiently fluid as to change the equation anyway. The one thing that's reasonably certain is that if you don't change and develop your tactics as time goes on, your enemy will happily change his to defeat yours.
Stay Safe Archy !!............
That's not always entirely possible, of course, but it's a nice thought.
Gurka babes ??? they sure are Purdy !
Oh yes. But don't get them, their daddies or their brothers upset at you.
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And drop nicely into a fatigue shirt or field jacket pocket, or can be speedtaped to the back of a K-pot. I don't expect it'd be too much of a stretch for one to be built into a plastic/synthetic sniper's rifle stock, either.
And if you need a second for backup should the first lose battery power at an inopportune time, or use the second to monitor your local unit push while in touch with Higher on another, a second radio in another pocket is no big deal, and provides a spare for another squaddie should theirs go down.
They're handy, but far from perfect. But sufficiently useful that their operational use in Bosnia was prohibited for use by the snuffies. After all, the brass had all the encrypted SINGCARS radios they needed in their vehicles, so who cares about the grunts going house-to-house.
The *Unwired Tech* Bill Dance model comes in OD green, is built with multiple waterproof gaskets, a waterproof plastic rather than paper speaker cone, and is reasonably weather-resistant if probably not exactly submersible, though marketed as a *fisherman's model* in which such an event might be reasonably expected to happen occasionally. I'm not sure if a GMRS frequency version is also available, but again, a second radio can go in another pocket [or modified first aid/compass pouch on the LBE] for covering those freqs.
The Garmin GMRS *Rino 120* waterproof model is similar, and includes GPS mapping features.
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The Garmin RINO 120 (and the RINO 110 both) feature a built-in GPS function that can *send* the GPS coordinates over the air and show up on the other's graphical screen!
US 150.00 on-line will get you the RINO 110 which doesn't allow local maps to be downloaed into the reveiver; but the 120, with 8 MB or RAM will allow 'theater' maps to be loaded ... and includes a cheap 'voice inversion' scrambler as well - for about US 100 more.
He was known to wait until it got nighttime cold, not a long wait that far north on the Arctic Circle, wait for the Soviets to build warming fires, then shoot them by firelight. He killed a few, wounded others who bled out or froze to death, and likely caused even more casualties as frostbite took those who then avoided such fires.
And when they'd come after him, grenades and kp31 submachinegun fire made that idea costly as well. He was a hunter as well as a target shooter and expert marksman, and he hunted.
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