does anyone have practice grenade dummy rounds and the propellant rounds for sale?might be fun to launch a few at a big target from a few hundred yards.

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Originally posted by jb:
does anyone have practice grenade dummy rounds and the propellant rounds for sale?might be fun to launch a few at a big target from a few hundred yards.

If and when you find what you’re looking for be sure and post how much “fun†it was. I suggest in the meantime you find yourself a big thick hunk of sorbathane for a buttpad.

i found a site where they remove the original and put on a new golf ball launcher.
http://www.surplusrifle.com/reviews2006/fore/index.asp

Golf Balls might be “funâ€... full size/weight rifle grenades are NOT!

Picture having a rifle with a flat steel plate on the muzzle and having a great big guy smack it with a steel bar as you hold it to your shoulder.

My only experience has been with an M14, and I didn’t like it.

Ok, here's a tidbit of info regarding the Yugo grenade launcher. The Yugoslavians designed it to use, and shoot NATO grenades. (they wanted to export and sell the SKS to NATO).

Hopefully that will help you in your search.

mike

the widespread ownership of Yugo M59's and the fact that NATO/US rifle grenades fit it's launcher have combined to drive the prices of US practice grenades to rediculous levels.

the old practice grenades that army surplus store's couldn't give away for $5 now sell for $50-$75 and up.

I can't imagine what rifle grenade-type parachute flares
Are now worth...

as for Sorbothane? WHY?

What kind of moron would attempt to fire a rifle grenade with the rifle shouldered?
and if you know of any such moron why would you stop them from doing it?

Ever seen what happens when a japanese "Knee" mortar is fired while braced against a human thigh?
Yes, people WERE stupid enough to try this and got a broken femur for their stupidity.

My mother's uncle who was a marine failed to stop a
particularly idiotic buddy from trying this (he tried, but the jackass wouldn't listen) and the guy died, a bone fragment severed his femoral artery and he bled out before anything could be done.

AllanD

You ever see the big thick slip on rubber recoil pads made for 03 Springfields. They have a big US and a ordnance flaming bomb symbol on their face. Gee...what do you imagine these were designed and used for, and what do you think they are called?

I’ve almost quit counting the number of times I’ve heard that Japanese “knee-mortar†story and each one is always a bit different. That was the first version that included the guy dying though.

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Originally posted by Rick 0311:
You ever see the big thick slip on rubber recoil pads made for 03 Springfields. They have a big US and a ordnance flaming bomb symbol on their face. Gee...what do you imagine these were designed and used for, and what do you think they are called?

I’ve almost quit counting the number of times I’ve heard that Japanese “knee-mortar†story and each one is always a bit different. That was the first version that included the guy dying though.

Many people actually tried that knee mortar thing... you could probably fill a bus with
the idiots that tried it.

The LEAST injury I ever heard of was dislocating their thigh from the hip socket

My mother's uncle (passed on about a year ago)
probably could have provided a name but I can't ask him now... well I could but the conversation would be rather dull...
Ran out of luck (or into it depending on your point of view) a couple of days into the Layte
invasion when a 6.5mm slug hit his right forearm
just behind the wrist and exited through the top of his forearm (missing both bones and amazingly the artery then through the fleshy
part of his upper arm... that ended the war for him but he made a full recovery... but every time he discussed the war he expressed a small ammount of anger than getting hit caused him to drop his rifle, something he only did that once.... but not before putting a bullet "dead center" into the japanese soldier who shot him...

It isn't difficult to figuire out they were shooting straight at each other...

AllanD

http://au.geocities.com/thefortysecondinww2/level1/line3/enemy_support.htm

The trigger fired Type 89 50 mm mortar. Contemporary American accounts described the weapon as being fired with the base plate braced against the leg. That was unlikely.
The Type 89 cannot properly be described as a mortar, as in the truest sense it was nothing more than a grenade launcher. However, the rounds it fired were not the same as those thrown by the infantryman.

The Type 89 was widely used down to Platoon level where an entire Squad served usually three such dischargers. Its weight meant it was usually carried against one leg or the other. This is credited as the reason why the Americans mistranslated the term 'leg mortar' to mean 'knee mortar'. This was taken to be a reference to the firing procedure, not the carrying method. Trying to fire the discharger braced against the leg, or any other limb, resulted in a broken bone from the fierce recoil generated.

The long range and lightweight of the discharger, combined with its issue at practically the rate of one per Rifle Squad made it a useful local support weapon.

Back to the topic at hand, and the statement that only a “moron†would fire a rifle grenade from the shoulder. If you go to page 405- 406 of Brophy’s book on 1903 Springfields you will see the following quote: “A recoil pad (boot) designated Pad, recoil was supplied with each M1 launcher. The pad could easily be installed or removed making it possible to use any 03 rifle as a grenade launcher. The purpose of the pad (be sure and read this Alan!) to was soften the recoil on the rifleman’s shoulder......â€

A similar pad was also used on M1 Garands and M14’s when firing rifle grenades.

All the “knee-mortar†stories remind me of the “Black Syphilis†stories from Vietnam where you supposedly got shipped off to a secret hospital to die and you were listed as MIA or KIA to save your family the embarrassment.

Yep, got that story to

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Originally posted by invader66:
Yep, got that story to

And there were just so many “babes†over there that I was just biting at the bit to jump in the sack with too!!!

Remember that saying...anyone who screwed a Vietnamese was too lazy to jerk off!

roger that

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Originally posted by invader66:
roger that

“Roger that???????????†Gene, Gene, Gene...what happened to Aye-Aye or That’s Affirmative? You sound like a friggin doggie!

Worked as/ with cops to long and too much radio
time.

Have to regroup and that is Affirmative

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Originally posted by invader66:
Worked as/ with cops to long and too much radio
time.

Have to regroup and that is Affirmative

Aye-Aye, sir!

Actually I about choked on my dinner one night watching the news when some Marine in Iraq popped out with “roger-that†in response to a question from a reporter. My God, Chesty rolled over in his grave when he heard that.

I’ve already got one of your “band of bubbas“ pissed off...don’t want to get you made at me too!

At the risk of pissing everyone off the site is
not fair. Where on the African forum people call
guys wives whores and talk about their mother. those
threads run pages. It all depends on who the baby sitter is. And some of these people need to go to a nitting site or some shit.
Piss me off? Shit brother, they all need to remember

"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."

--Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army


there it is brother

Aye-Aye Sir!!!!!!!!

It’s pretty funny, they “claim†that some of the users and moderators use their computers at work to use AR and foul language sets off “bells and whistles†on their networks.

Duh... so when did it become okay to use the company computers, while on the company payroll, for personal stuff?????

I just like a bit of consistency in all these rules and policies that get tossed in whenever the hall monitors change shifts.

just for the record ,the yugo sks does have a recoil pad on it,not a steel plate.probably also why it weighs almost 10 lbs.

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Originally posted by jb:
just for the record ,the yugo sks does have a recoil pad on it,not a steel plate.probably also why it weighs almost 10 lbs.

Recoil pad or no recoil pad just be prepared if you fire anything heavier than the golf balls!

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"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."

--Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army

Except us SQUIDS that hauled your asses hither and yon.