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[Sharps '74]

In the case of the Lee-Enfield, using the middle finger allowed the 'trigger' finger to be used bat up the bolt handle. This is how 'speed shooting' is accomplished with the Lee-Enfield.

The bolt handle on the Posion/Nagant is too far forward for this technique to be effectively employed.

 

[AP]

Noticed that in some Soviet war films. Seems counter productive, since your middle finger is weaker than your index finger, as a rule.

Grizz

It was a technique taught with the ‘fn’ C1 when doing ‘jungle lane’ shooting. The belief was that it was quicker to acquire a target instinctively if you ‘pointed’ your index finger while it was aligned with the centre line of the rifle. It helped some people improve their reaction time and achieve a hit.

Reminds me there was an RCR Colonel named Bud Taylor who spent a lot of time developing basic infantry skills training packages that could be conducted in an armoury cheaply and quickly. One program was building ‘jungle lanes’ from hessian and using balloons as targets. The soldiers used BB guns (and safety glasses) - to simulate dusk situations they were given sun glasses ... the guys loved it! Budgets were piss poor then and Bud was constantly working on easy to conduct training drills that would maintain interest and hone skills. It was also a great way to keep the jr and sr NCO’s fully engaged looking for ways to improve on the systems and come up with innovative ways to implement the packages.

A lot of folks turned their noses up at these packages but they served an invaluable purpose. I was always very impressed with Col Taylor ..... he made the effort to get out and watch training to see how it could be improved - gave positive feedback and unlike so many staff officers he would show up even in the nastiest weather.

On the subject of people who impressed me with their dedication and focus was a Capt Scandrett - an armoured officer - who pretty much on his own (and armed with a huge amount of energy and enthusiam!) managed to get the Ranger program launched in Ontario. Great guy!

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Not a pic, so apologies, but here's a televised Norwegian shooting competition. Some real Mad Minute business here, and most bolt actions are fired using the Traffic Communication Finger:

[youtube]4cnAwRJc7Sw?t=200[/youtube]

 

[AP]

Not a pic, so apologies, but here's a televised Norwegian shooting competition. Some real Mad Minute business here, and most bolt actions are fired using the Traffic Communication Finger:

[youtube]4cnAwRJc7Sw?t=200[/youtube]

OUTSTANDING! .. btw was that margarine he was coating his bolt with?

 

[Rob]

 

[Still alive]

Battle Dackels??

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Battle Dackels??

Mine dogs ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

Grizz

 

[AP]

Battle Dackels??

Airdales I think

 

[Sharps '74]

Sniffer dogs that can pick up the scent of borscht 2 kms away.

 

[purple]

The Finns used to keep a dog on all of their positions on the Golan Heights. They would get a puppy and treat it right and the dogs would sound off if the Syrians were around the wire at night. The locals treated dogs and other animals poorly and they had a distinctive odor (lots of garlic and whatever else) that the dogs seemed to react to. Good deal for the dogs and the troops.

 

[AP]

Sniffer dogs that can pick up the scent of borscht 2 kms away.

their sense of smell isnt all that great but they can hear a refrigerator door open at 500 meters.

 

[Sharps '74]

I read a book on cadaver dogs. Most can pick up scent from long buried bodied and some even from bodies in deep, cold water. Their sense of smell is greater than their hearing.

 

[donor]

their sense of smell isnt all that great but they can hear a refrigerator door open at 500 meters.

Maybe it's the smell from refrigerator?Time to clean up maybe?

T-34/76 in Finnish post-war use.Note Hakaristi replaced with new/old white/blue/white roundel.Also a lot new tool/accessory boxes seem to be added.

They really got good mileage out of captured equipment.

 

[diopter]

M25 tank transporter

and what I find most interesting:

 

[37patt]

My first thought was - Oh my god, to have that much room for a display. Where was it taken?

 

[Rob]

Note his middle finger on the trigger of the M-N. I grew up with a Dutch man who had lived under German occupation and then joined the Dutch military right after the liberation. He was trained on Lee-Enfields by Allied Army instructors (and later, in Canada he always kept a sporterized Lee-Enfield close at hand). He told me that he was taught to pull the trigger with his middle finger and to place the index finger along the side of the stock as a pointer. I wonder who trained this Finnish kid.

Note same middle finger on the trigger used by this top Finnish sniper.

 

[stewbud]

My first thought was - Oh my god, to have that much room for a display. Where was it taken?

From the internet: Photographed at the Marshallmuseum - Liberty Park - Oorlogsmuseum Overloon, The Netherlands.

The moving vehicles look like the War and peace show.

 

[diopter]

First picture anyway. not sure about the other two.

 

[purple]

Notice the massive chain drive on the M25 'Dragon Wagon'.

 

[Sharps '74]

Note his middle finger on the trigger of the M-N. I grew up with a Dutch man who had lived under German occupation and then joined the Dutch military right after the liberation. He was trained on Lee-Enfields by Allied Army instructors (and later, in Canada he always kept a sporterized Lee-Enfield close at hand). He told me that he was taught to pull the trigger with his middle finger and to place the index finger along the side of the stock as a pointer. I wonder who trained this Finnish kid.

Note same middle finger on the trigger used by this top Finnish sniper.

What's with the Death's Head insignia on the cap?