React as in being a weapons pedant or published novelist?Originally Posted by Rex Brynen
*waits for Wilf to react....*
An L42A1 (google search) was the drill version of a .50 ranging rifle! -so not a lot of good to anyone! - Maybe he meant an L42, which was the issue sniper rifle until the L96 came along.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
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