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Dark Alley Dan
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Neat picture. Older style helments - pre-war?
fat tony
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Mauser T-Gewher. single shot IIrc, like the Chinese Kindjhal rifles now that I think about it. . .
They used to have one at Fort Anne National Historic Park back in the day. Just chained up in a rack with a bunch of other WWI and WWII military small arms. . . They also had an MP-18 iirc.
They used to have one at Fort Anne National Historic Park back in the day. Just chained up in a rack with a bunch of other WWI and WWII military small arms. . . They also had an MP-18 iirc.
RememberTheSomme
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Purple what AP round were you guys using in the RCL106? Must have been HEAT right?? This is basically like having 6 infantryman firing 6 LAW's, but extending the range from 200 out pass 800meters? Did you use the US rounds?
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This is supposed to be a captured German anti-tank rifle. I don't know anything about it, but am sure it is worth more than a Lee Enfield sporter.
i believe they where 13mm. the round it fired was the round that Mr Browning based the 50 BMG on.
My grandfather brought a couple of these cartridges back as souvenirs. The case look very similar to the 50 BMG except that they are rimmed. Apparently the soldiers firing these rifles could only fire a few shots before having to be relieved. Its reported some even broke collarbones or got detached retinas from firing it.
The sands of time have kicked in somewhat, but the ammo was a HEAT round. I can't remember where it was made. A couple of other interesting aspects of the 106 included it's spotting rifle used for aiming and it's sub-caliber training device. The spotting rifle used a .50cal tracer round, shorter than the standard .50 cal rd, which was harmonized with the main weapon. I still have one of these around somewhere. The sub-cal training device used .30-06 ammo and tracer rounds were used to verify the 'fall of shot'. .30-06, or more properly .30 cal, tracer wasn't available from the system, so we scrounged 4b/1t belted machine gun ammo and pulled the tracers for use in the sub-cal trainer. There was no use for all that ball ammo, so guess where it went. It was excellent DA 55 ball ammo and I've been shooting it and reloading the brass for the past 40 yrs or so. I still have a small hoard of unfired ammo for special occasions.
The life expectancy of a 106 crew in action wasn't long due to it's huge firing signature and lack of protection and mobility.
There was one of these in the old RCEME Museum in Kingston/Barriefield when I toured it in 1965. I wonder where it went?
Hello Smellie. It's been 40 yrs since I've been around these and there are probably some who have a more vivid recall of the maintenance aspects. Our concerns were more on tactical employment as the basis of the unit anti-armour capability with the details left to the NCOs and gunners who did this best. I recall the old M38A1 jeeps that mounted these being real maintenance bears. They were 1952/53 vintage and were tough to keep operational in comparison to the then newer 1967 and 1970 made M38A1 C2 and C3s. They also took an extra heavy beating as a result of tactical driving loaded down with gun, crew, and ammo trailers.
It's a good thing that we never had to use these in anger as the max effective range on a T62 tank was 800m with a faint hope of surviving the initial shot. Things improved a lot with the follow on TOW missile, with a much longer effective range, which was eventually provided with protection against indirect fire when mounted on the M113A1.
The movie "Enemy at the Gates" showed the German comm troopers using these spools mounted on their backs to lay phone wire while crawling belly to the ground, with the Soviet snipers treating them as high-value targets.
