Thread: Guns in schools

Originally Posted by shooternz

Going back further to the 50's we had Cadet training every Wednesday afternoon at High School did parade drill with deactivated .303's got taken to the army range at Ardmore
to shoot .22RF and later on .303's and Bren guns,
None of my school mates ever robbed a Dairy

Yep did the same thing. Although formal cadets had been canned at that stage and only volunteer cadets was run for a while at our school.
Got trained to strip and reassemble a Bren blindfolded. Main point I guess was to familiarise us with barrel chages in the dark.

Shot 22s at the army range in the inner city. Oh shock, horror, terrible stuff!
Mind you the range was outdoors with a backstop not that high.

Had an annual shoot with No 4s and the Brens.
Rumour had it that years previously the cadets had colluded to all shoot at once at a gum tree to the left of the target's storage shed in an attempt to cut the tree down. A good story but I doubt it was true as each of us when we went down on the mound was supervised one on one.

Got to play with Sterlings and a 106mm recoiless rifle. (50 cal single shot Browning on top of it to fire a spotter b4 setting off the biggie.)

No Greens or do gooders to shut us down in those days. And ditto, no armed robbers emerged from our school. We were all better off for the dicipline.

Did the same at my old high school the range was in a corner of the playing field.