Thread: refurbished 303

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

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’.

Where was your dad? Mine was in Malaya 1957-59 . As well as the jungle carbine there was a few that carried Sterlings and their lead scout carried a Browning auto shotgun , I think was fairly typical for the kiwis there at the time.