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Originally Posted by cirelaw
It amazes me how troops managed to carry these rifles the ammo and supplies~
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That's "child's play" for a grown man!
But, imagine, 14 year old kids shooting it. We shot in prone position, off of the shooting "table", through the window (hard to describe, but that was the shooting range). Imagine a long "room", with row of "tables" on one wall (I forgot how many tables, but at least 20-30) spaced about six feet apart. Each table has a "window", and a sand bag on the "window sill". The window opens to a shooting range out to 300 meters (it has three "shooting lines"....100, 200, and 300).
Each kid was prone on the table, firing from the shoulder. Some smaller kids were literaly pushed off the table by the recoil! There was about three or four cases of broken colar bones (total of about 150 kids in training), and NOBODY walked away without any bruises (including me, and I was the tallest, strongest kid in the class). We were recquired to shoot five rounds, unless the kids started crying (in pain), in which case the instructor would pull the kid off of the firing line.
I don't have to tell you that the kids like me, who fired all five shots (and asked for more!) had all the bragging rights in the evenings, and the pick of the girls?