rufrdr wrote:when I broke my shooting side collarbone in a bicycling accident
I know that feeling, I hit a big old oak tree at a fair rate of knots, somewhat surprisingly it didn't move....
Do you have any problems now? I remember feeling a slight bit of anxiety the first time I shot 5.56 again and then flat out refusing to shoot 7.62! I was being a overcautious though, proven when I was muscled into the firing position and told I'd be punished if I didn't shoot haha!!
rufrdr wrote:when I broke my shooting side collarbone in a bicycling accident
I know that feeling, I hit a big old oak tree at a fair rate of knots, somewhat surprisingly it didn't move....
Do you have any problems now? I remember feeling a slight bit of anxiety the first time I shot 5.56 again and then flat out refusing to shoot 7.62! I was being a overcautious though, proven when I was muscled into the firing position and told I'd be punished if I didn't shoot haha!!
My downfall was a bus stop signpost on the sidewalk in the dark that I didn't see. I went down hard and besides the collarbone I got a concussion and was lights out for long enough for the police and an ambulance to show up. The first time I tried shooting, about a month later, even shooting a .22 hurt. Now I just have a kink in my collarbone and I can shoot anything. It did hurt for the first couple of months once I started shooting centerfire again. My doc made me get down and give him 5 pushups before he cleared me for shooting!
I found this image I took from an outing with the training ammo. OK accuracy for 50 yards. I don't remember if the tight group was at the beginning of shooting it or near the end.
Nasty! I was lucky enough that I just smashed my shoulder in, full face helmet and body armour probably helped a little, I was also lucky enough to be with an A&E doctor who gave me some really fantastic drugs! Ended up driving myself to hospital about 70 miles away. I've now got what looks like a weird growth on my shoulder and can't sleep on the right hand side or with my arm above my head. Not bad considering.
:lol: :lol: :lol: Just seen brass case / blue tipped training rounds on a movie...seems they were "sent as a warning" to the "hero" and they are some sort of "super round" that has been used to slot ne'er do wells for money¬ ...jeez!
Political Correctness is the language of lies, written by the corrupt , spoken by the inept!
having seen mention of training rounds in a bren, reminds me of a story my Dad told me about putting unripe marula fruit in the flash hider of a bren whilst on excercise to ..." liven things up !!"
must have stung a bit !!
bnz41 wrote:Mauser 7.92/8x57 early training rounds, wooden tipped.
When I was young, several WW2 vets told me that the Nazis were so clever, they had wood bullets that would not kill a GI but give him infections from the wood splinters which would fester to gangrene and lead to a horrible lingering death. I'm assuming they came across the wood tipped blanks!
I took some of the blue rounds to the range today and made short work of a soda can at 50 yds. This ammo is pretty darn accurate at that range. It seemed to hit as hard as the .22rf rounds I was also shooting the soda cans with.
Some of that 5.56 SRTA looks as if it could be fun for plinking
