84MM CARL GUSTAV

Post by **DuncaninFrance** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:36 am

I just got thinking about when I fired this bit of kit down at Lydd and put in a search on YouTube.

Check this out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBslqsP5UJw&NR=1

Karl/Pa. · Post by **Karl/Pa.** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:43 am

That hurt.

24626151 · Post by **24626151** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:06 pm

I knew it well:

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Tom-May · Post by **Tom-May** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:58 pm

My only experience with that bit of kit was some thirty-mumble years ago as an Army Cadet - we got to fire one with a .22" rifle conversion - on an indoor range at the Mercian Depot (IIRC), firing at footage of vehicles on a cinema screen.

It hardly counts, but I thought it worth a mention (if only for the 'real' users to laugh at).

Tom

Post by **DuncaninFrance** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:23 am

Thing I remember most was that on the range we fired on the actual firing points were dug into a low bank. My No:2 (loader) said that after I fired it the back blast caused a vacuum in the firing point and after his helmet bounced off his head and his balls got stuck in his ears he did think that his blocked nose had been cleared for life

After that we went to Tin City and had some good time with .22 tracer ammo