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Old 5th Nov 2014, 07:59
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The kidney shot was an ND to add insult to injury on a patrol and the person firing had just tripped. And it fired when they landed on there face in a load of peat with there Bergen on top.

The DS didn't actually go mental on that one. Something to do with the safety catch was deemed slack and the BFA had fatigued fractured leaving the attachment still on the gat.

Just bad luck it managed to hit him in about the only exposed bit of his back from the side. If he had actually pointed it at him it would have hit his bergan. But it was a combination of the bloke in front turning with the fall behind and the gat going off. But it was the end of his military career with one kidney removed. We couldn't work out how it hit him where it did with webbing and bergan on.

What did they do with the SLR's after they changed to the SA80? Sold or scrapped?
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