Hand grenade training advice
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fat tony
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avoid whipping it too hard, ideally, the thing is to lob it such that it does NOT BOUNCE where it first lands, when I was in the forces, they did not teach the old British way of lobbing it from various positions, all we really did was whip it like a baseball, and yes when I first threw mine it did indeed bounce. 
Edit: with a C-13, they taught us to have the spoon adjacent to your palm as opposed to adjacent to your fingers (sound advice when you really think about it). The sensation of the grenade going off is excellent, it makes this THUMP noise and it also sends out a concussion wave that makes a really trippy noise, sort of like a vibration in the air.
also I didn't read through the entire thread, enjoy your session!
Edit: with a C-13, they taught us to have the spoon adjacent to your palm as opposed to adjacent to your fingers (sound advice when you really think about it). The sensation of the grenade going off is excellent, it makes this THUMP noise and it also sends out a concussion wave that makes a really trippy noise, sort of like a vibration in the air.
also I didn't read through the entire thread, enjoy your session!
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No vest is going to save you from that. Punctures aren't the problem - I'd worry about blunt object damage.
A 106mm with flechette rounds,nice for clearing trees so zombies would be no problem, like butter.
PS:I enjoyed being RSO far more than grenade bay NCO.
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... Always remember to take the safety clip off. I don't know how many Grenades I've had to BIP on grenade courses because the candidate pulled pin and threw and the clip was still on it.
Grenades are pretty anti-climatic if you're expecting the movie explosion. Be ready to be very disappointed when throwing them onto flat open ground. Get one in a confined space and you'll have the opposite reaction.. very effective.
.. Lots of people in the military get complacent with grenades.. they can and do kill, even in training. We had a guy posting a grenade in a trench.. crawled up with the pin pulled (as he was taught at the time), took a ricochet & dropped him, when he was rolled off the grenade, we lost another. That was a while back, but it can still happen... even in Canada.
A ways back we got a load of 84mm Anti Pers rounds that had a couple lbs of 00 shot balls in them. Think claymore + 84mm Shotgun.
Grenades are pretty anti-climatic if you're expecting the movie explosion. Be ready to be very disappointed when throwing them onto flat open ground. Get one in a confined space and you'll have the opposite reaction.. very effective.
.. Lots of people in the military get complacent with grenades.. they can and do kill, even in training. We had a guy posting a grenade in a trench.. crawled up with the pin pulled (as he was taught at the time), took a ricochet & dropped him, when he was rolled off the grenade, we lost another. That was a while back, but it can still happen... even in Canada.
A ways back we got a load of 84mm Anti Pers rounds that had a couple lbs of 00 shot balls in them. Think claymore + 84mm Shotgun.
fat tony
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When you think about it, the old British way of lobbing is superior in many ways to the overhanded baseball throw. The reason is that there might be an occasion where you have no choice but lob it from the 'trying to drive your face into the ground' position in a shootout.
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It is fun just throw it far and duck behind the wall! Don't drop it! Mr gernade is your friend until the pin is pulled then he is angry get away from him! It is kinda fun knowing you caused that explosion but not that amazing
fat tony
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I don't play baseball or cricket, I played more ball hockey than I ever did baseball. - Whose 'you' are you talking about?
I respect your experience with combat, but despite news coverage of the troops 'standing up and fighting like men' while the Afghan National Police fired their AK's over their heads from behind a mud wall; (heroic nonetheless), imo, there are going to be times when you won't be able to fight from the standing prone position, or go to one geographical location to another unless you are leopard crawling. If my life depended on proper grenade drills, I would want to know as much as I can about different ways to use them. Have a great weekend Neit.
I respect your experience with combat, but despite news coverage of the troops 'standing up and fighting like men' while the Afghan National Police fired their AK's over their heads from behind a mud wall; (heroic nonetheless), imo, there are going to be times when you won't be able to fight from the standing prone position, or go to one geographical location to another unless you are leopard crawling. If my life depended on proper grenade drills, I would want to know as much as I can about different ways to use them. Have a great weekend Neit.
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