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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Johnny English on 24 January 2013, 09:12:07
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Just was clicking on my pc and found this, which is one of the best shots of my life. I was twentysome yrs old with red helmet on about 12000 feet high :) ...
(http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l636/cybernomades/053_0012.jpg)
...but which is your best shot?
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Well done for that mate , takes some nerve to do that and someone with a steady hand to take the picture :D
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downway to hell ;D :D ok..joking .. nice one :y
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Excellent :y, mind you I'm one of the " Why jump out of a perfectly servicable aircraft" brigade. ;D ;D
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Great picture and a wonderful thing to do! 8) 8) 8) :y :y :y :y
It is one of the things you can do up there in the sky that I have not (yet!) done. Tremendous sport! ;)
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That will teach you to fly Malev Airlines, go British Airways next time. ;)
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You win! :y
My brother (an army marksman) once challenged me to a shooting match. Foregone conclusion he would win. We were dead equal at the end so I said I will cut the string supporting the target with this shot. And I did. That was the best shot of my life (and lucky) ;D
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You win! :y
My brother (an army marksman) once challenged me to a shooting match. Foregone conclusion he would win. We were dead equal at the end so I said I will cut the string supporting the target with this shot. And I did. That was the best shot of my life (and lucky) ;D
Once managed a 1" group at 200m with an iron sight. Not on the SA80 though as it is not built for marksmanship (it fails on the 4th marksmanship principle) it was a HK G3 7.62 which is a brute of a weapon to fire but fantastically accurate if you can use it properly. I hated cleaning it though ;D
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Excellent :y, mind you I'm one of the " Why jump out of a perfectly servicable aircraft" brigade. ;D ;D
Hereby it's said : " normal people with normal mind won't jump out from normal plane " ;D ;D ;D
Great picture and a wonderful thing to do! 8) 8) 8) :y :y :y :y
It is one of the things you can do up there in the sky that I have not (yet!) done. Tremendous sport! ;)
Try it Lizzie won't regret ever I guarantee you :y
You win! :y
My brother (an army marksman) once challenged me to a shooting match. Foregone conclusion he would win. We were dead equal at the end so I said I will cut the string supporting the target with this shot. And I did. That was the best shot of my life (and lucky) ;D
No worry Varche, only a good skill man has extra luck :y congrats for your shot matey ! ;)
Once managed a 1" group at 200m with an iron sight. Not on the SA80 though as it is not built for marksmanship (it fails on the 4th marksmanship principle) it was a HK G3 7.62 which is a brute of a weapon to fire but fantastically accurate if you can use it properly. I hated cleaning it though ;D
Wow :y in the Army I had a Dragunov SVD that a wee bit more than a simple rifle as SVD has closely 1.5 times range to that but less than a sniper rifle...in proper hand it is also lethal.
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In the proper hands, Laslo, a toothpick can be lethal.
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Wow :y in the Army I had a Dragunov SVD that a wee bit more than a simple rifle as SVD has closely 1.5 times range to that but less than a sniper rifle...in proper hand it is also lethal.
SVDs while great to fire are not great to carry and only 10 rounds......that said bloody accurate if memory serves :y
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Bit hard to tell, but I think I might be the little guy in the middle:
http://www.richardbennett.com.au/lightbox/index.php?module=media&pId=102&id=4944&category=gallery/yachtraces2000/sydney_hob_2000&start=150
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Not into picky taking unfortunately - you win hands down on that score - but the best shot I had in my life was with a .308 target rifle (7.62 for those who like metrication) T 1200 yards at Glen Tilt range (Blair Athol, Scotland) with iron (open) sights and a leather sling. No bipod, no telescopic sight.
Cold shot, windage calculated as per tables, and got an inner carton.
To those that don't shoot it's a bit of a 'Wtf' kinda thing but I'm quite proud of it.
:)
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Well,I was walking down the shankill road late one night.................CENSORED. :-X
;D ;D ;D
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Just was clicking on my pc and found this, which is one of the best shots of my life. I was twentysome yrs old with red helmet on about 12000 feet high :) ...
(http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l636/cybernomades/053_0012.jpg)
...but which is your best shot?
That's a nice Zipper What did you jump? Javelin? Vector? Nine cell or seven?
Where was that taken? Looks like a good day for jumping!
I'll have to see if I can find some of the big way stuff I was doing in the UK and Europe. Last time I jumped was in 2009. Do you still get your knees in the breeze or have you stopped jumping now?
Blue Skies, Johnny English, Blue Skies! :y
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.....and best shot?
Well lots of them actually......in a cone over a a 20 yard spread (or what ever it was the manual said)
2nd place in the UKLF GPMG (SF) competition in 1986. 5 points difference from 1st place.
I maintain to this day it was because of the remount gun and tripod not being level front left (and the gunner had his own spirit level)
That seems such a long time ago
(sigh)
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Easily done with the GPMG tripod. I remember from training it was a b**** to carry, esp with bergen across rough ground.....thankfully nowadays I drink coffee and smoke a pipe with the young ones do that silly sort of stuff ;D
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That's a nice Zipper What did you jump? Javelin? Vector? Nine cell or seven?
Where was that taken? Looks like a good day for jumping!
I'll have to see if I can find some of the big way stuff I was doing in the UK and Europe. Last time I jumped was in 2009. Do you still get your knees in the breeze or have you stopped jumping now?
Blue Skies, Johnny English, Blue Skies! :y
Hi Matt I've stopped now as the jump went really expensive to my wallet it was a quite painful decision but I had to take. This pic was made somewhere in Hungary maybe above Esztergom town IIRC where we started to competite as a 4-way team. I'd got a seven cell Vector that was pretty reliable and strong enough but a bit big thats why a swapped it off later for a 140feet2 CX . I have altogether 550 jump, which consists of 200 solo and 350 team /formula/ jumps. It's beautiful period of my life unfortunately like many other stuff in life it is also not endless... :'(
Blue Skies, Matt! :y
Laszlo
PS : by the way if you would fancy some fairly cheap jumps I bravely propose you Hungary. Although it is an expensive hobby much cheaper than in the most country of the EU. My personal relations of skydiving are still living :y
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That's a nice Zipper What did you jump? Javelin? Vector? Nine cell or seven?
Where was that taken? Looks like a good day for jumping!
I'll have to see if I can find some of the big way stuff I was doing in the UK and Europe. Last time I jumped was in 2009. Do you still get your knees in the breeze or have you stopped jumping now?
Blue Skies, Johnny English, Blue Skies! :y
Hi Matt I've stopped now as the jump went really expensive to my wallet it was a quite painful decision but I had to take. This pic was made somewhere in Hungary maybe above Esztergom town IIRC where we started to competite as a 4-way team. I'd got a seven cell Vector that was pretty reliable and strong enough but a bit big thats why a swapped it off later for a 140feet2 CX . I have altogether 550 jump, which consists of 200 solo and 350 team /formula/ jumps. It's beautiful period of my life unfortunately like many other stuff in life it is also not endless... :'(
Blue Skies, Matt! :y
Laszlo
PS : by the way if you would fancy some fairly cheap jumps I bravely propose you Hungary. Although it is an expensive hobby much cheaper than in the most country of the EU. My personal relations of skydiving are still living :y
You went CX huh? The nearest I got was a Stiletto! Had a Spectra too but went back to 9 cell - like to swoop!
I know what you mean about having to stop. I have many happy memories from jumping - in the UK, but also France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic and of course the USA.
If I come back to Skydiving I'll have to come to Hungary - if there are still places where it's cheap - will have to give it a go!
We'll have to sit and have a beer after jumping and swap log book stories............... ;) :D ;D 8) ??? ::)
BSBD
Matthew
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Easily done with the GPMG tripod. I remember from training it was a b**** to carry, esp with bergen across rough ground.....thankfully nowadays I drink coffee and smoke a pipe with the young ones do that silly sort of stuff ;D
Yup, and as gunner/controller I always had to carry the damn thing!
It was always nice using turret mounted belts at the demos on Battlesbury. Especially when the tank hulks were filled with oil...........
Didn't get to see turret mounted that often, but spectacular, especially as rounds came off the targets, spinning off into the sky. Was lucky enough to do a night shoot with the stuff in Wales, (?brecon) even more spectacular!
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<apologies in advance to any veggies>.
Partridge with a catapult at about 25yds.
walking along with it loaded, and it popped up in front of me -
I hit it in mid-flight.
This was, of course, quite a long time ago, in a country where hunting with a catapult is legal. :-X
I seem to remember it was quite tasty.
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Easily done with the GPMG tripod. I remember from training it was a b**** to carry, esp with bergen across rough ground.....thankfully nowadays I drink coffee and smoke a pipe with the young ones do that silly sort of stuff ;D
Yup, and as gunner/controller I always had to carry the damn thing!
It was always nice using turret mounted belts at the demos on Battlesbury. Especially when the tank hulks were filled with oil...........
Didn't get to see turret mounted that often, but spectacular, especially as rounds came off the targets, spinning off into the sky. Was lucky enough to do a night shoot with the stuff in Wales, (?brecon) even more spectacular!
The last time I fired a GPMG it was turret mounted on a 432 in Castlemartin, had great fun that day :y
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Easily done with the GPMG tripod. I remember from training it was a b**** to carry, esp with bergen across rough ground.....thankfully nowadays I drink coffee and smoke a pipe with the young ones do that silly sort of stuff ;D
Yup, and as gunner/controller I always had to carry the damn thing!
It was always nice using turret mounted belts at the demos on Battlesbury. Especially when the tank hulks were filled with oil...........
Didn't get to see turret mounted that often, but spectacular, especially as rounds came off the targets, spinning off into the sky. Was lucky enough to do a night shoot with the stuff in Wales, (?brecon) even more spectacular!
The last time I fired a GPMG it was turret mounted on a 432 in Castlemartin, had great fun that day :y
1973 in Portsmouth, well not the town itself. iirc same calibre as an SLR.... :D :D :D
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Easily done with the GPMG tripod. I remember from training it was a b**** to carry, esp with bergen across rough ground.....thankfully nowadays I drink coffee and smoke a pipe with the young ones do that silly sort of stuff ;D
Yup, and as gunner/controller I always had to carry the damn thing!
It was always nice using turret mounted belts at the demos on Battlesbury. Especially when the tank hulks were filled with oil...........
Didn't get to see turret mounted that often, but spectacular, especially as rounds came off the targets, spinning off into the sky. Was lucky enough to do a night shoot with the stuff in Wales, (?brecon) even more spectacular!
The last time I fired a GPMG it was turret mounted on a 432 in Castlemartin, had great fun that day :y
1973 in Portsmouth, well not the town itself. iirc same calibre as an SLR.... :D :D :D
Yup, same stuff!
Ever get the chance to fire a Vickers? Canvas belts (From the right) and all that water for the cooling jacket.....
Much more paraphernalia than the SF kit. If memory serves, in the National Army Museum there used to be a section all about the Vickers and they test fired one all day without a break (or something).An SF barrel would melt if you did that......
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Back when I was in my 30's, I beat Willie Thorn in an inter-town snooker competition, knocked in breaks of 58 & 45.
He didn't even shake my hand afterwards.
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Back when I was in my 30's, I beat Willie Thorn in an inter-town snooker competition, knocked in breaks of 58 & 45.
He didn't even shake my hand afterwards.
Not surprised there AA, Willie Thorne must have been in nappies, when you were 30ish ::) ;D
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Back when I was in my 30's, I beat Willie Thorn in an inter-town snooker competition, knocked in breaks of 58 & 45.
He didn't even shake my hand afterwards.
Not surprised there AA, Willie Thorne must have been in nappies, when you were 30ish ::) ;D
He was in his 20's, about to turn pro.
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Having finally found my SD card ::)
(http://i1277.photobucket.com/albums/y486/05omegav6/HPIM0067_zps89a3a480.jpg)
And...
(http://i1277.photobucket.com/albums/y486/05omegav6/HPIM0064_zps651e6bd5.jpg)
:y
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Wow, Al
just so peaceful and tranquil - that's looks just amazing!
Matthew (now lying down and imagining.......)
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It was 8) although it needed to be to recover from the four hour drive to get there ::)
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Glenturret 26.y.o.!
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best 2 shots of my life using small bore single shot at close range mark 1 mr wiggly
(http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/paullovejoy/Facebook/wedding%20pics/13552_1069511393409_6355233_n.jpg)
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as for jumping out of a plane i could not even do it if it was on the ground let alone way up in the sky
oh and jump out of the plane glide around for a bit hold hands have a chat take a few pictures. would be the fastet way to empty the contents of my arse ever and thats before we have taken off :o :o
Your all mad :D :D letting go of the plane must be hard surley
Ballooning they are mad totally ffing nuts Wifey was going to suprise me once and send me on a suprise day out ballooning. Would have been some suprise trying to get me in a basket with strings and a balloon,
could just imaging my little happy face now ;D ;D
anyway she changed her mind and did me a race/rally day but i was to big for the cars >:( >:( ok too heavy for the cars bloody weight restriction :o :o