Thread: refurbished 303

Originally Posted by paremata

You’re obviously more familiar with it that dad or I am . He also called his SLR an FN and every variant of the ar platform an Armalite. In all the photos apart from a couple I have of him he’s carrying what he called a Jungle Carbine .

There’s a disclaimer in the ad on trademe about the state of the barrel which is a worry .

Edit ,@Kiwisapper I wasn’t clear in the op . I didn’t mean the rifle in the trademe ad was a number 5 I meant the barrel is even shorter than a rifle that already had a rep for kicking hard.

My father also used a jungle carbine and also commented on the savage recoil, “the only platoon rifle that the British Army decided needed a recoil pad” was his words. (I noticed the rubber recoil pad was smaller in surface area than a standard butt plate)

My father then went onto using an M1 carbine as his ‘weapon de hour’ in the jungle, commented that it’s lack of knockdown effect was compensated for by its volume of fire plus its lightness and ‘point ability’.