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Re: [OT] Linking Ammo

From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [OT] Linking Ammo


--- "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de> wrote:

> to WWII gamers). Linking
> by hand wasn't nice, but we had a small hand-cranked
> machine. It looked a
> bit like an old coffee grinder. Feed in the belt
> from the side, drop in the
> cartridges from the top and crank away  The work
> went reasonably well with
> that. Does my memory fail me or don't your units
> have something similar ?

Nope.  If we link, we're linking by hand.  

We don't usually have to link, but there are times
when it's necessary.  Only with blank ammo during
training, since on Real World deployments we get more
ammo than we can possibly fire.

John

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