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HERE ARE/IS MORE!!

Post by DuncaninFrance » Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:47 pm

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Hope that's of interest :razz:
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Post by joseyclosey » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:49 pm

24626151 wrote:Looking back it may have been in a book, not on ferrets but on the L85 rifle.
Cheers 151, just dug out my copy of "The Last Enfield". Time i had another browse through it methinks.

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Re: HERE ARE/IS MORE!!

Post by joseyclosey » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:51 pm

DuncaninFrance wrote: Hope that's of interest :razz:
Cheers Duncan,

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Post by 24626151 » Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:21 am

joseyclosey wrote:
24626151 wrote:Looking back it may have been in a book, not on ferrets but on the L85 rifle.
Cheers 151, just dug out my copy of "The Last Enfield". Time i had another browse through it methinks.

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Post by joseyclosey » Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:09 am

I came across this example of a Mk 2 in the Panzer Museum, Munster last week.

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Re: Ferrets

Post by DuncaninFrance » Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:29 pm

Someone's nicked the turret MG Joe - was it you :roll: :roll:
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Re: Ferrets

Post by PeterN2 » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:04 pm

The chief range officer at the 200 yard firing point at the Trafalagar Meeting turned up in a Ferret one year complete with Bren gun mounted.

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Post by Woftam » Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:39 pm

The chief range officer at the 200 yard firing point at the Trafalagar Meeting turned up in a Ferret one year complete with Bren gun mounted.
Obviously a man of good taste and one not to be trifles with. :lol:
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Post by joseyclosey » Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:10 am

I remember it well Peter, it wasn't what i expected to see on the range. I got a snap of two likely lads useing it as a leaning post. :GBR:
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