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[MV6Matt]

.....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)

[Gaffers]

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 

[Johnny English]

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!

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!           

   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

[MV6Matt]

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!

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!           

   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

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...............

BSBD
Matthew

[MV6Matt]

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 

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!

[bigegg]

<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. 

I seem to remember it was quite tasty.

[Gaffers]

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 

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 

[Vamps]

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 

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 

1973 in Portsmouth, well not the town itself. iirc same calibre as an SLR....

[MV6Matt]

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 

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 

1973 in Portsmouth, well not the town itself. iirc same calibre as an SLR....

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...... 

[Auto Addict]

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.

[Taxi_Driver]

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 

[Auto Addict]

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 

He was in his 20's, about to turn pro.

[05omegav6]

Having finally found my SD card



And...



 

[MV6Matt]

Wow, Al

just so peaceful and tranquil - that's looks just amazing!

Matthew (now lying down and imagining.......)

[05omegav6]

It was although it needed to be to recover from the four hour drive to get there