pongo
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Post by pongo on Feb 26, 2006 17:22:39 GMT 1
Hi can anyone tell me what the holes in the feet of the bipod are for I know the holes on the L4 were for the snow shoes but what about on the earlier guns ?
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Post by mattgibbs on Feb 26, 2006 21:44:36 GMT 1
Snow shoes..? If I did not know better I would think this was a first of april post, can someone explain?
Regards
Matt Gibbs
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Post by Kev on Feb 26, 2006 22:52:55 GMT 1
The holes in the feet are inherited from the ZB where the holes were used for staking the feet for firing on fixed lines. The snow shoes were used to stop the bipod feet sinking into snow,the same priciple as for human feet  |
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pongo
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Post by pongo on Feb 26, 2006 22:55:12 GMT 1
Matt,
Snow shoes are flat mesh plates that bold onto the feet of the bipod of the 7.62 L4 to spread the weight of the gun when firing on snow.
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Post by Kev on Feb 27, 2006 0:09:20 GMT 1
This picture is posted on the strict understanding that if some should come up on Ebay Tom will have the only bid ;D .......should he rejoin that is ! ;D  |
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Post by tom on Feb 27, 2006 0:28:30 GMT 1
or I will cry and throw teddy right out of the pram!
Theres 2 other versions as well, a strange Canadian stap between the feet affair and a WWII UK one (possibly originally Canuck as well) thats a pair of issue ski pole baskets with special leather tabs to hold them on.
ATB
Tom
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Post by Kev on Feb 27, 2006 0:51:00 GMT 1
I'd just love to be a picture editor in some of the books and magazines that illustrate some of these items. I'd spend all day airbrushing in ficticious items of kit that some crazed collector (no offence Tom ;D ) would spend half his life trying to track down ;D ........maybe someone is allready doing it ?  |
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Post by tom on Feb 27, 2006 9:44:11 GMT 1
Er Kevin
what do you think I do when i get bored? You don't think things like the DD(E) for the fixed butt grip are real do you?...
;-{D)
ATB
Tom
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Post by mattgibbs on Feb 27, 2006 18:08:45 GMT 1
Kev, I take it thats you in the snowsuit.?
Matt
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Post by Kev on Feb 28, 2006 2:14:07 GMT 1
Yes,with a bergen full of snowshoes ;D ......Toms only 500 yards behind and gaining on me ! |
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