Anyone here into firearms?

VABAM · 10-01-2021, 11:22 AM

Maldat, Welcome! Nice to see a non-US person in the firearm thread!

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Originally Posted by Maldat

When I was in the NZ army , ,we used SLR's and hd ONES with the heavry barrel and tripod and used them on full auto .. 7.62mm . .pure wicked
used 20mm on m113

also used M16 armalite .,. (spelling) didnt like them a bit light a lot junkie
Bren on tripod are fun
have used hand gun on the range .. hated it .. (what ever army issuse was at the time , (mid 80's) colt 45?.

Ah yes, "The Right Hand of the Free World" Can't go wrong with the FAL aka: SLR. (Name is dependent on who made it.) Been wanting to add a FAL to the collection for awhile.

If my research is correct, the M16 you probably got to use were Colt Armalite M16 / M16A1. Most likely first gen left overs from the US which weren't that good. According to my research there was a short transitional period with the M16 before NZ Army decided on a new rifle. NZ "officially" went from the SLR to a variant of the Steyr AUG which has been phased out not too long ago for a piston driven M16/M4 variant made by LMT called the MARS-L.

Pistol wise your were probably using a Browning Hi-Power. According to my research the NZ Army used the Colt M1911 (.45) in WWII but after WWII went to the FN Browning Hi-Power and used it until the late 80s. In the late 80's my research say the NZ Army transitioned to the SIG P226 and some time after that transitioned to what they are currently using, the Glock 17.

My small arms training I got in the US Navy was a joke. That's if you count 5 rounds out of a M9 (9mm pistol) at boot camp, that was optional, small arms training.

The US Navy attitude to small arms training in the late 90s eraly 2000s was meh, only gunfighters and security got training. That changed while I was in as the "War On Terror" ramped up it caused the US Navy to rethink their attitude to small arms training. Also it didn't help that I was in a rate that wasn't allowed to do anything outside of my job. Got hit with N3A a lot. (Nukes Need Not Apply) Especially as a Nuke ET (Nuclear Power Electronics Technician) we were to "valuable" to waste our time on small arms training and other duties that normal sailors had to do especially on an aircraft carrier. As we said in the Navy: "Choose your rate, choose your fate!" so I can't complain too much about my small arms training while I was in.