Minesweeping by rifle fire.

"Krztalizer" wrote in message
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| How common was this practice and how long after the war it did last?
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| On the Kirk, we used the bridge wing fifty cals to set off / break up two
| floating mines just outside the PG in 1985.
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| v/r
| Gordon
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| USN SAR
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The 50 Cal BMG would have to be to most fun of all the weapons I was ever
paid to play with. Never fired it in anger - or anything more
active than an injudicious fox that made it halfway across the range (and a
boatload of mud crabbers). Fired from a tripod in the sitting
position, it ratifies every theory that Sigmund Freud ever thought of.



Cheers


Dave Kearton