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    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to BOB ACKLEY on Tue Apr 16 07:43:10 2024
    Ah, but they were. I carried one (but didn't fire it) when I was at Da Nang in 1965

    I wonder if Dan can man up and give you an apology. He's probably too young to understand that every person who has ever served in the military knows his weapon by the time inside out. Including the name.

    I for instance know everything there is to know about my service weapon, Carl Gustav m/45. And nobody can claim that it was not my dedicated weapon by then.

    Oh, BTW, speaking of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War, the US Navy SEALs used the Swedish Carl Gustav m/45 extensively. One of the gun's qualities which appealed to the US Navy was that the m/45 can fire almost immediately out of the water (over the beach). 8-)

    I wonder what weapon Dan used in his military days. If any...




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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384.125 to Björn Felten on Tue Apr 16 07:43:10 2024
    Hi! Björn,

    On 05/23/2019 08:44 AM, you wrote:

    I for instance know everything there is to know about my service weapon, Carl Gustav m/45.

    Same, same here. On our L1A1 SLRs, I can still carry out safety procedures/instant actions (on misfiring), disassembly, cleaning and re-assembly in my sleep, from over 40 years ago. OTOH, I can't remember much about the Steyr AUG since I fired it during one range shoot only in my last year prior to retiring (as a civil servant) in '93.

    I wonder what weapon Dan used in his military days. If any...

    Must've been a M-14. It ain't anything like an AR-16/Colt.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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