Right Blade, Left Blade

[Doug Miller]

I can imagine you might not have enjoyed that, depending on when you served. My BIL is left-handed, and served 10+ years as active-duty Navy. He said that when he went through basic, in the mid-70s, the M-16 ejected spent cartridges back and to the right... right down his shirt collar. They're kinda hot, he tells me. I understand that the weapon has since been modified with a guard that prevents the spent shells from coming quite so far back.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

[Larry Jaques]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:01:45 GMT, the inscrutable [e-mail] (Lawrence Wasserman) spake:

Well, it's a good thing Doug had already relieved himself.

-- Vidi, Vici, Veni ---

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[Doug Miller]

Believe me, that same thought has crossed my mind more than once.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

[mac davis]

The one that I really remember was the m-60 (light machine gun) The Army, in all of it's wisdom, said that the weapon could not be fired left handed, as the ejected brass would hit you in the eye.. I qualified expert, etc. right handed with a lot of practice..

I carried one for 5 or 6 months in Nam, left handed on an assault belt.. fired several thousand rounds left handed and never got hit by any brass.. (at least from MY gun *g*)

mac

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[xleanone]

I carried the old slug left handed too and caught one chunk of fired brass in my tee-shirt neck (target right). I still have the burn scar on my belly where it lodged. I was a bit too busy to yank my tee out of my belt at the time!

Ah well, life is like that, it's all about priorities and survival is the first priority, or pretty close to it.

Tom