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Vir Campestris wrote:
On 08/09/2016 09:40, charles wrote:
I don't think he likes me any more.
He asked me if I had any advice for a young man of his age...
"learn to shoot".
well I did. With an SMLE 0.303

You sure it wasn't a No. 4? I saw almost none of the earlier types.

It was a Canadian variant with a slightly longer barrel. An extra inch or
so in front of the foresight.

(I recall the first few times I fires one the recoil was physically
pushing me back. I had to crawl back up to the point every few shots...
I didn't get the hang of them until I'd grown enough to absorb it
without sliding about)


never had that, but it was sore on the shoulder,

I had one of those for a while. They were marketed bored out to 0.410.

My ambition was to make use of the magazine for multiple loading. Sadly
the blunt nose on fourlong shot cartridges made for very unreliable
re-loading and the gun was much too heavy for snap shooting anyway.

Somewhere I still have the cleaning kit which was stored in the stock!


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Tim Lamb