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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Dog" data-source="post: 66468" data-attributes="member: 1622"><p>Goodgrouper, </p><p>Reminds me of a story I heard recently about when the Parachute Regiment were working-up for the Falklands.</p><p></p><p>The machine gun platoon were on a range in South Wales 'balancing' and generally playing with their GPMGs. After lots of rounds downrange, a local lady rang to complain that the windows on her greenhouse were getting smashed and could they stop firing.</p><p></p><p>The range staff went to visit her to see the problem. True to her word, the greenhouse was peppered; but when they looked around they noticed bullet pockmarks at various other spots on her house.</p><p></p><p>She said words to the effect <em>" Oh yes the house is always getting hit, I don't usually mind, it's just with all this extra firing I got a bit fed up"</em> /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p><p></p><p>Turns out the range had been built a few degrees off the specified bearing and its off-axis template took the danger area onto civ land. Whole thing had to be rebuilt!</p><p></p><p>In true longrange terms, I had a personal Wheeereeedi[they] gooooooo?? moment: 18rds in the air, village over ridgeline 5kms plus of target on gun-target line. Didn't see or hear a single round land /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif. A sphincter moment. Village wasn't hit; but we never found out where those rounds went (still up there in a low-Earth orbit is my best guess!)! Ho hum /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Dog, post: 66468, member: 1622"] Goodgrouper, Reminds me of a story I heard recently about when the Parachute Regiment were working-up for the Falklands. The machine gun platoon were on a range in South Wales 'balancing' and generally playing with their GPMGs. After lots of rounds downrange, a local lady rang to complain that the windows on her greenhouse were getting smashed and could they stop firing. The range staff went to visit her to see the problem. True to her word, the greenhouse was peppered; but when they looked around they noticed bullet pockmarks at various other spots on her house. She said words to the effect [i]" Oh yes the house is always getting hit, I don't usually mind, it's just with all this extra firing I got a bit fed up"[/i] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Turns out the range had been built a few degrees off the specified bearing and its off-axis template took the danger area onto civ land. Whole thing had to be rebuilt! In true longrange terms, I had a personal Wheeereeedi[they] gooooooo?? moment: 18rds in the air, village over ridgeline 5kms plus of target on gun-target line. Didn't see or hear a single round land [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]. A sphincter moment. Village wasn't hit; but we never found out where those rounds went (still up there in a low-Earth orbit is my best guess!)! Ho hum [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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