Diginagain - agreed, when the AAC were running door-gunner courses at Wallop in the late 90's, part of the final test was to have to dismount and engage targets like an infanteer.
Did you have the strap stashed somewhere onboard?
I can’t remember ever looking at the gun in all the lifts I had, but I like the idea of the loading getting one of the pilots to lug the tripod around and the other cradling the C2 sight!