Thread: RECOIL....your funny stories.

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

FAAA I was impressed to see about 40 fired in one day. I was told they were about $1,500 each at the time.

I seem to remember M79 40mm grenade launcher having a bit of recoil. The Carl Gustaf 84mm gave you recoil from all sides for sure.

By far the worst recoiling gun I have fired was a very very short single barrel shotgun with no rubber but-pad. It was so light and firing game loads it was horrible.

It was very unusual and was just before a deployment to Macedonia to support UN observers over the border in Kosovo. I think we had 200 rounds for the year for the platoon in normal circumstances, but 800 turned up and we fired them at Warcop Ranges in Cumbria from a single section of 3 mortars in one day.

The end of firing augmentation charge burning at the end of the day could probably be seen from space!

To link to this thread, the recoil from mortars pushes the base plates into the ground. When they get so deep it’s dangerous to drop rounds down the tube, at which point they have to be dug out. We did quite a bit of digging that day.