Ukraine

[Rick Lowe]

So... the closing down for the weekend thing even extends to the Army?   

[Old Wombat]

In peace time or away from the AO - Yes.

[Rick Lowe]

Fair enough.   

[Beermonster58]

Agreed. When I was playing at soldiers (mid to late 80s)  we were  still using the BREN . Rechambered to fire the NAT0 7.62mm x 51 round . It may have been old but, it was a good, solid, durable and reliable weapon . Every bit as lethal to those on the recieving end as any more modern machine gun.

Absolutely! I loved the BRENs we had in the CCF, so much so that a buddy of mine and I won a couple of competitions with ours. 

I surprised even myself by still being able to strip one that was being demo'd by a group of re-enactors at  RIAT show on year. 

One of its virtues. It was very easy to strip, disassemble and, reassemble .

[NARSES2]

In a lecture  I went to by Andy Robertshaw (National Army Museum) his version of this story was that the trial started on  Monday morning and  finished on the Friday afternoon.  The gun would have kept going  much longer, but everyone wanted to get away for the weekend.

That I can well believe 

[scooter]

Agreed. When I was playing at soldiers (mid to late 80s)  we were  still using the BREN . Rechambered to fire the NAT0 7.62mm x 51 round . It may have been old but, it was a good, solid, durable and reliable weapon . Every bit as lethal to those on the recieving end as any more modern machine gun.

Absolutely! I loved the BRENs we had in the CCF, so much so that a buddy of mine and I won a couple of competitions with ours. 

I surprised even myself by still being able to strip one that was being demo'd by a group of re-enactors at  RIAT show on year. 

One of its virtues. It was very easy to strip, disassemble and, reassemble .

Also muscle memory.  You do it enough times in your youth, forget about it, then get the opportunity to revisit it, and everything is remembered.

[PR19_Kit]

Also muscle memory.  You do it enough times in your youth, forget about it, then get the opportunity to revisit it, and everything is remembered.

Too true. 

The re-enactor guys asked me to do it a few times as I was much faster than they were. 

1) 'Mag'

2) 'Barrel'

3) 'Trigger Group'

4) 'Pistol Group'

5) 'Piston Group'

Etc. etc. 

[Beermonster58]

Agreed. When I was playing at soldiers (mid to late 80s)  we were  still using the BREN . Rechambered to fire the NAT0 7.62mm x 51 round . It may have been old but, it was a good, solid, durable and reliable weapon . Every bit as lethal to those on the recieving end as any more modern machine gun.

Absolutely! I loved the BRENs we had in the CCF, so much so that a buddy of mine and I won a couple of competitions with ours. 

I surprised even myself by still being able to strip one that was being demo'd by a group of re-enactors at  RIAT show on year. 

One of its virtues. It was very easy to strip, disassemble and, reassemble .

Also muscle memory.  You do it enough times in your youth, forget about it, then get the opportunity to revisit it, and everything is remembered.

That's for sure. We also learned to disassemble, strip and, reassemble our L1A1s and, other personal weapons blindfolded.