And now for something not so very different.

[pecunium]

A small retrospective, in pictures. I'll post a few, and cut the rest.

None of these are new, but I don't think I've posted all of them.


Guys I was in Scotland with, Brits, and Canadians.


Humping the hills.


Per-Eric Estjes, talking shop in Ukraine. His last hurrah.


Far, far from home.




Taking a load off


The same the whole world round


Waiting


Me, when we were still fresh.


Ft. George.


"Outbound mail"


Down time

Comments

Apropos of nothing

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Those Enfields just look cooler than M-16s. Agree? Dissagree?

Re: Apropos of nothing

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

What Enfields? I presume you mean the Steyr-Aug SA-80A2s.

They have a certain "sex appeal" to the configuration. In a lot of ways they are much like the M-16 (same lockwork/timing), but they handle much differently. Shorter, but balanced poorly for being, "handy".

On balance, the benefits (much easier to clean, not as prone to feed problems) are counterbalanced by the drawbacks (not friendly to left handed shooters, the operating lever is wrong-sided, balance makes it akward to carry, "at the ready" and it's a tough call for me (with only a couple of weeks using them) to say which is the better.

For looks... probably the SA-80 wins, but I don't much notice the looks anymore.

Re: Apropos of nothing

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

They were originally Enfields. Various changes of ownership make the original design the last Enfield, then Walther was part of the same conglomerate, and did the work to bring them to the improved standard, before Walther went back into German ownership.

It's the usual tangled web of who owns what, in the modern British armaments industry.

But I can't recall any mention of Steyr being involved. Not that anyone is actually making them anymore.

Re: Apropos of nothing

[zeeth_kyrah]

Back when I regularly played first-person shooters (and I'm sure I offend people by even mentioning the subject in current context), the Aug was my favorite gun of all. In real life, however, I've never even seen one in person.