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Old 29-11-05, 20:07
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Default 2 pounder ammunition

Hi Guys:

We may need to get an expert's opinion here. John Carlin is probably the world's foremost ammunition collector and ordnance historian (jjcarlin@lineone.net).

I'll send him a summary of our thread/string and ask his opinion on 2 pounder HE rounds.

Cheers! Mike

P.S. I wouldn't want to do an anti-tank engagement with the 2 pounder's wheels down: no spade to stop recoil, crappy traverse with the guy on the handspike controlling the traverse not the gunner (real hard to track a moving target that way) and poor likelihood of a target round first shot. Yikes!
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