Forgotten Weapons

[The Other PaulG]

Not far from where I live in London, were the old (as in Medieval old) proving grounds for the monarchs’ of the time artillery. The spirit lives on in the name of streets (Artillery Lane, for instance) and in the Honourable Artillery Company, whose HQ is on the same grounds.


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Dating from 1637, it is still going but the near by bell foundry is gone, sadly. A little bit of London history, lost.

And some of the settlers in the US were HAC members, who founded the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company in Massachusetts, which is still going strong today and still very proud of its history.

 

[OldPaj]

This topic heading is one of my pet hates.
I have numerous firearms, but I have hundreds of weapons, should I chose to use them as such.

I accept that a WW sniper rifle is a weapon, it is, in the current period a firearm.

Typically in Au our media refer to even Gel Blasters as weapons, fire crackers as explosives and air pistol pellets as bullets!

 

[Loiq]

This topic heading is one of my pet hates.

probably have to blame the septics for this as they appear unable to use nouns correctly.

 

[Wapping]

And some of the settlers in the US were HAC members, who founded the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company in Massachusetts, which is still going strong today and still very proud of its history.

That I didn’t know, thank you.

Some of my forebears from my mother’s side, were early settlers in and around Boston. They fought on the side of the nascent Americans. in the war of independence.

 

[Clifton]

 

[leadfarmer]

This topic heading is one of my pet hates.
I have numerous firearms, but I have hundreds of weapons, should I chose to use them as such.

I accept that a WW sniper rifle is a weapon, it is, in the current period a firearm.

Typically in Au our media refer to even Gel Blasters as weapons, fire crackers as explosives and air pistol pellets as bullets!

Terminology can be tricky

Try talking about a gun to a member of the British army, you’ll soon be reminded that the Navy have guns

Don’t know if the same stands in the southern hemisphere

 

[leadfarmer]

Typically in Au our media refer to even Gel Blasters as weapons, fire crackers as explosives and air pistol pellets as bullets!

You may have already seen this, it seems to be the document used by most European journalists

 

[OldPaj]

Definitely seen it before, and sadly it is very true.

 

[Morety]

I used to have an early smle .303 Lee Enfield, which had at some point in it's life been converted to a short foregrip (carbine version?) and fitted with a .22LR barrel, presumably for training use? It was inherited from my late father and accounted for an awful lot of bunnies before I eventually sold it. I'm sorry that I did now as it was a bit of a rarity and a lovely old thing, but at the time I had a large collection of full bore rifles and it just didn't get used.

 

[leadfarmer]

I used to have an early smle .303 Lee Enfield, which had at some point in it's life been converted to a short foregrip (carbine version?) and fitted with a .22LR barrel, presumably for training use? It was inherited from my late father and accounted for an awful lot of bunnies before I eventually sold it. I'm sorry that I did now as it was a bit of a rarity and a lovely old thing, but at the time I had a large collection of full bore rifles and it just didn't get used.

There was a N°5 Mk. I Jungle Carbine but I think it was based on the later N°4 Mk. I rifle rather than the N°1 Mk. III

 

[Morety]

Yes, come to think of it, it was a Nr 4 Mk1. It had the same stock forend.