Re: Vietnam and modern combat

At 9:32 PM +1000 4/28/04, Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:
>
>And rather more Bren guns converted to fire the NATO 7.62mm instead
>of the old .303.

Oh, most assuredly!

>
>A 30-year-old Bren firing the old .303 round is still the most accurate
weapon
>I've ever fired, even firing 3 rounds automatic. Easy to get a
saucer-sized
>grouping at 200 yards on a 3-second pop-up target. Of course I was
firing
>from a prone position, and no-one was firing back. But I still did
better than
>with a Lee Enfield of similar vintage, 73% on a pop-up instead of 32%
at a
>stationary target at 200 yds, the first time I'd fired anything larger
than
>a .22

Have I not expressed to you how much I want a 
Bren gun to go with my WWII  Dingo?

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