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[Ben Waterhouse]

You'd expect it from the officer, but that's a terribly posh Sergeant-Major.

Also. interesting how the officer takes credit for what the Sergeant-Major is about to do as well.

Small Arms School Corps by the look of the photo.

[John Cook]

You'd expect it from the officer, but that's a terribly posh Sergeant-Major.

I was a 'terribly posh' Sergeant Major.  Don't believe the caricatures, the army reflects the society it is drawn from.

[John Cook]

Love the accents.

It'll never catch on.

[John Cook]

Not to sure about the facts though, 200 rnds min far too high.

No, I don't recognise that.  Effective rate of fire for the SLR , aimed shots, was 20 rpm as I remember.  The cyclic rate of fire was about 700 rpm which is purely the theoretical ability of the weapon to recycle without any constraints.   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

A friend who served in Korea used to say that while stationed with an Australian unit, his SLR was confiscated and replaced with a semi-automatic version.
He was rather popular when it came to increased fire as ot could go to full rate of fire

[pierre the shy]

Fired SLR's for familiarisation a few times MANY years ago while "helping out" 7WNHB terries. Remember one of the cadre sargeants telling us that it was pretty simple (but officially greatly frowned upon) to give them autofire capability by the use of a matchstick or two. Not sure if thats 100% urban legand or not but sounded good at the time to us young and impressionable bods. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It works but as sear won't close empties the magazine. Fore stock gets very hot....

[Ben Waterhouse]

Fired SLR's for familiarisation a few times MANY years ago while "helping out" 7WNHB terries. Remember one of the cadre sargeants telling us that it was pretty simple (but officially greatly frowned upon) to give them autofire capability by the use of a matchstick or two. Not sure if thats 100% urban legand or not but sounded good at the time to us young and impressionable bods. 

Not an urban legend... err... someone told me...

[howayman]

Used like that in the Falklands according to an ex paratrooper friend of mind.
Once trigger pulled it fired until empty.

[John Cook]

I heard about this but during a quarter of a century in the British army I never saw it done.  I can't imagine why you'd want to anyway, the weapon would be uncontrollable and I would think repeated use would just about destroy it.  The Omanis had semi-automatic FNs in the 1970s, much the same as an SLR, but also a heavy barrelled fully-automatic version with a bipod, one per section as I remember.   It was a very unpopular weapon and unpleasant to fire even on short bursts of three or four rounds.  The SLR was a good weapon as it was intended, which was semi-automatic.  The only problem with it was its length inside vehicles and that it tended to lose its zeroing every time you broke it to clean it, because front and rear sights were on different halves of the weapon.

[flamingpig0]

[flamingpig0]

Apparently the West Side Boys weren't actually the West Side Boys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Boys

[fsn]

This is how it starts ...

[Orcs]

I had heard that some  US troops in Normandy used to carry an extra M1 carbine with trigger sear filed down. It emptied the magazine with a single trigger pull. Used to keep the enemies head down. I doubt it was particularly accurate 

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