Shooting things with other things!

[bumpycat]

This last weekend was the annual Regimental shooting competition, which is more fun than a barrel of monkeys with guns. Actually, it's remarkably similar in atmosphere and outcome to a barrel of monkeys with guns, with a bit more focus on safety

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[first_fallen]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

What a cute bebbe! So deliciously chubbly.

[bumpycat]

She is just the right amount of chubby ;)

[ext_737886]

Probably best you didn't get a heroic scar this time. Not sure you'd really want to have to explain that one. "This? Oh, this was... ah... target practice." Hm.

And awwwwwwwww! Walking talking bebehs are the best.

[bumpycat]

You're right ... stabbing myself in the hand while loading a gun would make a pretty poor story.

[herne_kzn]

Awwww!

I thought you chaps had moved from the L9 to the L105, pistol-wise.

[bumpycat]

The regulars have, but the TA is still on the Browning. We might get the Sig sometime in the next decade ...

[herne_kzn]

Grumble grumble. If it was good enough for my granddad etc etc.
(Yeah, big BHP fan, hoping to get into competition with one this year)

[bumpycat]

It's showing its age now. The design is over 80 years old, and a couple of the Brownings I've fired have dated back to the 1950s.

The safety and magazine release are right-handed only, the magazine is only 13 rounds, and the action is stiff. It's a classic design, but for combat I would rather have something newer ...

[rumint]

Very warry, ready for any zombie hoard :) But what's a shemagh?

Isn't the BHP still preferred by SF?

[bumpycat]

Shemagh = keffiyeh. It's a variation of the Arab scarf/headdress. It was popularised by British Army colonial forces in the days of Empire and now, as a result of the current conflicts, it has become a very popular item of kit with most Western soldiers. The black-and-green checked scarf that most soldiers wear - that's a shemagh.

See my comments above on the BHP. It's only used by people who haven't yet replaced it with something newer. On ops we now use the Sig P229, which I had the pleasure of examining on familiarisation.