Milsurp After Hours

I posted about this sometime in the past ...long past... and the images are gone.

The British in WWI produced a grenade cup that would fit on a 1 Mark 3 rifle by the simple method of turning a 2 and a half inch wide cup until a screw with clasps tightened up on the muzzle of the rifle. The device launched a special Mills Bomb grenade with a disk shaped butt end. With a blank cartridge the rifle, butt firmly planted on the ground, could launch such a grenade between 80 and 200 yards. The distance was controlled by angle of barrel and by moving a gas release at the base of the cup.

Here's a good video produced for an auction several years ago. Now days the launcher cups go for around $150, although they were thrown in for free if you bought a wire wrap rifle once upon a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1DyyCxf9Q

Pretty cool Robert, now to get some blanks and some tennis balls.

Miller Tyme wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:29 am Pretty cool Robert, now to get some blanks and some tennis balls.

What a good idea MT

I saw this facebook post of a photo of a soldier in WWII in Burma or some other such South Pacific location with a grenade wrap rifle without the cup. I hit a google and found this really interesting exposition of how these grenade launching rifles worked and what was expected of them.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1DyyCxf9Q

They were also the soldier’s using rifle and were in all respects, other than the safety wire, a normal rifle.