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Default Another shooting?

On Dec 25, 2:11*pm, ESAD wrote:
On 12/25/12 3:06 PM, Tim wrote:

On Dec 25, 9:50 am, wrote:


I used to have a 303 Lee Enfield (sports conversion) rifle but sold it about 25 years ago.


Oh man. My favorite!


It was the weapon of choice during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in India..


It was just about the only weapon of choice by the British and it's
tributaries from about 1895 to 1957 and in some British military
applications to 1960, and it still the issued cartridge for the
Vickers machine gun to this day. . Even with the Royal Canadian
Rangers (Arctic Div.) still use it as standard issue if i remember
correctly.

It's probably the only standard military cartridge and bolt-action
rifles to have been used by a nation for a hundred years, and the
rifles had very few variants to it's design.

Besides, it was the great defender against the tyranny of the
Imperial and Nazi German invaders in two world wars.

If it works, don't fix it.