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US Citizen at Traction Control is hosting the October match, and I encourage all of our readers to enter. It is a tough match, with twenty 1" circles, which you try to hit with one shot per circle while shooting offhand at 21 feet. Touches count for one point, and touching the dot in the center of a circle counts for three points. It's a challenge, and it is excellent practice. Whether you score 0 or 60, you have an equal chance for every entry to win the October Cheaper Than Dirt Gift Certificate, so get out and shoot!
Danno has provided a shot of the informational plaque on the 40 MM gun for our education and gratification. I have seen footage of these guns in old movies and news footage from WWII, and they are darned impressive pieces of artillery. Two pound projectile... makes a .45 seem almost insignificant.
Photo Credit: Danno at Sand Castle Scrolls
3 comments:
Actually these guns remained in service thru the Viet Nam war. They were taken off combatents by then, but they were still onboard LST's and various other auxillary ships.
It was a hoot to see them shoot up a hillside!
Merle
hmm the 40 MM gun had 2 pound shells! hm learn somethin every day.
That's a big chunk of metal to launch upward 5 miles!
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