Thread: Calibre Choice in the 1970's

@norsk That reminds me years ago l had done a gig guiding Americans on a Chital Deer & pig hunting trip in Northern Queensland & they wanted a bit of a tour through the country side back to the airport ,so for that sort of thing l would pick out towns with a bit of history & do a over night stay in a old outback pub to give them the feel of the country/locals.

We pulled up in a old mining town in the middle of no where , that the bakery was renowned for its pies & cakes & a local that every day took his Brahman bull for a walk down the pub & beer.While they were filling up on pies, l went for a walk in the old main street to try to get service on my phone to confirm the over night booking at the next towns pub for that night & there was the towns old RSL hall, all neglected, broken windows ,the paint on the weatherboards peeling & falling off from lack of use & neglect obviously had not been used for a while. Well bugger me sitting outside in the dirt was a Japanese war booty, Type 3 / Type 92, Heavy Machine Gun,just left rusting , a dog or kid had dug down the couple of inches to show it was only held down by old paint tins filed with concrete with a bit of bent wire.

The guys l was guiding were all Vietnam era veterans & they could not believe it either,often wondered how it escaped the Ozzy Nanny state grubs or how it was not nicked as a wall hanger or if they had sold it whether it would bring enough to fix up the RSL.