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Old 29th Jul 2016, 01:30
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Dan Winterland
 
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"uaGrd discovers three bad yins in the bushes, by the time he takes his five rounds out of the sealed plastic bag and loads the weapon, they have escaped in a car. One round fired as I recall... but it was long time ago."

Sounds like a tall story, completely against all the ROE.
Think it was Shawbury, or Ternhill - this was in the 80s. Whether the guy got a shot off I don't know - but the plastic sealed magazines were fact. it was this incident which led to live loaded weapons from then on.
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