BAOR - Pheasant Killer - Not! 14/10

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Excellent.

[Ragnar]

Brilliant!

[bluewillow]

Nicely done!

Cheers
Matt

[commissarmoody]

Fine work.   

[Sterling Moose]

You've nailed it.  They look awesome.  If they've got puttees you could mix it up a bit and have wooden furniture on their SLRs.  Both butt and stocks for early cold war and even a mix for later.  I think I had wooden stocks right up until we changed to SA80.

[Ursus Maior]

That's some nice camo on these exquisite figures!

[Jemima Fawr]

You've nailed it.  They look awesome.  If they've got puttees you could mix it up a bit and have wooden furniture on their SLRs.  Both butt and stocks for early cold war and even a mix for later.  I think I had wooden stocks right up until we changed to SA80.

I don't know about the Army, but in the RAF we had VERY occasional wooden-stocked SLRs issued from the armoury until the 90s, as you say.  Probably fewer than 1% of the total though.

[Harry Faversham]

I think I had wooden stocks right up until we changed to SA80.

Answer me this then as I still wonder about it even today. I used an SLR with both wooden and plastic furniture, my groups were appreciably tighter with the wooden furnitured rifles, why? One marksman told me the wood was more 'forgiving' of recoil, another said that's daft!
30 years after first letting fly with the SLR I had another go, and still shot better with a wooden stocked rifle?
Obligatory wargames bit... the DPM on the figures is cracking!

[Jemima Fawr]

Answer me this then as I still wonder about it even today. I used an SLR with both wooden and plastic furniture, my groups were appreciably tighter with the wooden furnitured rifles, why? One marksman told me the wood was more 'forgiving' of recoil, another said that's daft!
30 years after first letting fly with the SLR I had another go, and still shot better with a wooden stocked rifle?
Obligatory wargames bit... the DPM on the figures is cracking!

I found that I was equally as bad with all of them. 

But nowhere near as bad as I was with SMG... 

[carlos marighela]

We never adopted plastic furniture, the Lithgow SLRs were wooden right to the end, the only appreciable differences in the whole production run was a switch from triangular to round hand guards, earlyish/ mid production and the substitution of a green plastic carrying handle.  Zeroed properly they were bloody good to shoot with.  I shot fairly well with the M16 as well and that had placcy furniture.

There shouldn’t have been much appreciable difference due to the nature of the stock. The hand guards/ fore stock make no appreciable difference, ours being essentially laminated plywood with a heat shield. The metal end to the butt stock would cancel out much give in the wood and that would be a variable anyway, dependent on how well the rifle was cared for and whether the stock was given a regular treatment of linseed oil.

Anyway cracking work on that DPM.

[CapnJim]

My L1A1 has plastic furniture, and I don't have any issue hitting what I aim at.. .

And nice work on the BAOR boys.  You too, have done DPM right!

[Dags]

Cheers, again, all 

Next batch; Gimpys and Charlie Gs....

[Rick F]

Cracking job again mate, I've got the Charlie Gs to be getting on with as well.

[AKULA]

More great paint jobs, love the camo 

Cracking job again mate, I've got the Charlie Gs to be getting on with as well.

In my paint queue as well, but sadly won’t look as good as these

[commissarmoody]

Great looking weapons teams.