Don't bother woftam, You don't get nice weather on that side of the coast !We get it all and send the leftovers to you !! Got me buggered how civies can access to defence ranges like that. try that here na wake Ned you wouldn't even get the phone number. Very nice selection of rifles and gear boys. ...

Jesus, If those balls are from a monkey, then there must be some truth in the legend of King Kong!!!

Cheers

NED

1MD is Queensland

2MD is New South Wales

3MD is Victoria

4MD is South Australia

5MD is Western Australia (Gods Country)

6MD is Tasmania and if ya real lucky

7MD is the Northern Territory.

Cheers

NED

I take it Krinko these are not serial numbers ? I f they aren't then I think they are rack numbers that where used for different districts inventories. The D arrow D are aussie defence department acceptance marks. The 1,2 3 respective if not mil districts maybe inspector markings. Obviously the butt...

They all had a planning range and actual range. I was never an artilleryman but the 81mm mortar had a planning range of 4200 metres but with charge 9 and a cup of petrol down the tube you could get around the 5 click mark.Also break the torsion bars on a M113 APCM. The 155 with a rocket assisted rou...

JBS

Mate I used to do MFC. Motrar Fire controller .

Also air strikes etc but never in the CP of a artillery battery !!!

Cheers

NED

Certainly is sir What is the badge from you have at the end of your posts? I loved the pics of woftam!! I was talking with regulary before he went to Ireland. Time differences and his work made it hard to keep in contact. Love his solar panel for a sex machine on his noggin ! Hope the bastard brough...

you couldn't put one in backwards unless it was made as a right hand twist barrell. I thought they all stuck to the plan of left hand twist. Most civilian barrels are right hand twist. Here's one for ya Eoin, what was the twist, left or right in the SLR or L1A1 and wasther difference in the brit ver...

I think it was the yank Army shooting team that used to dry fire 1000 times for evry live round fired at the range. I try to do some evry few days, 10 minutes here and there and it has helped with standing unsupported. As for the chargers just set up a few for racing , mark them and keep them for t...

Wh yes mate I was a nO1 on No3 tube. In a parachute battalion. Best days of my life as a mortarman. In the aussie Army you are a rifleman first then you do specialist cses, so every guy in support company which houses mortars,recon,anti armour/sf machine gun, sigs and pioneers, you can be assured th...