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how to store a machine gun for 70 years

17-11-2011 8:48pm

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firefly08

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440:

Thanks to a "wild idea" from Lt Colonel Dave Sexton, ordnance technical officer in the Irish army, it was decided an attempt would be made to fire one of the Browning guns that had spent 70 years in the bog.

The machine guns will now be made safe

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#2 17-11-2011 9:25pm

von dreyse

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Yea I was reading that in tuesdays " Donegal Peoples Press" allright.If I had of thought that I would of been out with a spade a long time ago!!!

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#3 17-11-2011 10:13pm

meathstevie

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A bit irrelevant to shooting but very relevant to the Donegal machineguns. It was amazing to see Catalinas flying from Lough Erne a few weeks ago. They would have been a very common sight over Ballyshannon and Bundoran during WWII as well.

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