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Old 23rd Aug 2011, 11:44
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Clockwork Mouse
 
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Wow Sharpend! Some blokes will go to any lengths to pull the birds!

I tried evening up the score in the late 60s when we were young and soldiering was still fun. When things were quiet, which was fairly often, my Flt Comd and I would fly out onto the remote moors, land, take off the RH door, and go duck hunting. I flew while he hung out of the door with his 12 bore. The ducks and we had about the same VNE and G limits, so we were evenly matched.

It was completely outrageous, huge fun and excellent low level aircraft handling practice. Despite a considerable expenditure of powder, I don’t actually remember that we managed to smoke one of the little blighters though.
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