Thread: Dustoff for Willie Peters

Originally Posted by Rushy

Dundee, the cynic in me says that the arms manufacturers do!

No No 'rushy" Its all the fault of the MEEK, Its all this turn the other cheek stuff that causes the problems.

I knew vern when he was there.
Off out there again next spring I still do the fencing there and just love the place for the veiws people that i meet and not to mention smacking over the odd veni.
I just wonder if i have met you Dundee at some time in the past.
I presume you are a mate of Hamish
Give me a pm if you keen for a chat

Originally Posted by Dundee

Hey Scribe I'm getting there Chapter 7 now

Were in Waiouru 1989 and Mangohane Station about 14 or 15 years ago but make a point of going thru that block yearly.

My cousin worked there as a trapper and pretty ironic his initials are V.C and he fought in the Rhodesian war.

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I knew vern when he was there.
Off out there again next spring I still do the fencing there and just love the place for the veiws people that i meet and not to mention smacking over the odd veni.
I just wonder if i have met you Dundee at some time in the past.
I presume you are a mate of Hamish
Give me a pm if you keen for a chat

Missed out on the Lions (charity - Ronald McDonald house) 4WD trip earlier this year, too many other buggers had signed up, it went through Otupae, Mangohane, Erewhon, Black Hill and Ohinewairua.

Apparently Mangohane was the first sheep and beef farm in New Zealand to sell for more than $1 million (Warren Plimmer and Jim Bull brought it for around $1.3 million back in 1973... big money back then). I did a bit of work on Bulls other farms, never got up to Mangohane.

Originally Posted by Raging Bull

Missed out on the Lions (charity - Ronald McDonald house) 4WD trip earlier this year, too many other buggers had signed up, it went through Otupae, Mangohane, Erewhon, Black Hill and Ohinewairua.

Apparently Mangohane was the first sheep and beef farm in New Zealand to sell for more than $1 million (Warren Plimmer and Jim Bull brought it for around $1.3 million back in 1973... big money back then). I did a bit of work on Bulls other farms, never got up to Mangohane.

I remember the sale, we were out the back trapping and hunting then...We were also up there when this mob from the lions club came through on their bikes...I couldnt believe how many of them there was

Originally Posted by Scribe

I remember the sale, we were out the back trapping and hunting then...We were also up there when this mob from the lions club came through on their bikes...I couldnt believe how many of them there was

Yeah, it was auctioned off at the Napier Wool Exchange in December, 1973.

The limit for the Hunterville 4x4 Tour this year was 75 vehicles, thats a lot, but at $250 per vehicle (incl two passengers) and $50 per extra adult, $25 per child (13 and under), they would of raised a fair bit of coin for R McDonald House.

I know of WWII Scribe but I certainly don't remember it. Diplomacy is for the diplomat's and their bloody cucumber sandwiches. JFK had it right in 62 when he told Nikita Kruschev to piss off and turn the boat around. He took the world as close to a nuclear war as we have ever been but won the day. I have often wondered how different your war would have been if he had still been at the helm in the early days rather than LBJ.

What sort of rifle is the armalite Scribe and that rocket that Fred had must be a whole lot more dangerous than the M72 that I used as it had bugger all back flash. Chapter 12

Originally Posted by Dundee

What sort of rifle is the armalite Scribe and that rocket that Fred had must be a whole lot more dangerous than the M72 that I used as it had bugger all back flash. Chapter 12

The armalite was a AR 15 designed by Eugene Stone and taken in by the American military as the M16. It was a selective fire weapon with a 1x14 twist firing a 5.56 x 45 round. The projectile was a boat tail "with unstable characteristics" making little round red entry holes that were often ringed with a four inch circle of deep black and blue flesh that had been destroyed.

This rocket was the M72. Dont forget 'Dundee' many of these battles took place at night, black as the inside of a cow, in thick jungle. My job was to brass the place up. Other people go more for the big bang theory.

I forget now the back blast danger area of the M72 but every time my no 2 wanted to let his go I found myself looking down the tailpipe of the bloody thing. If you are looking down the tailpipe of it at less than a metre when it goes off the M72 is guaranteed to melt you face off right down to at least your shoulder levels.

I disliked the bloody thing and when my no 2 started to wave his around I was scareder of it than I was of the VC.

Thanks for that Scribe. I'd be shit scared of a VC too and the M72 at both ends.

M72 Light Anti Tank Weopon
The M72 is a self-telescopic,disposable,anti-tank system consisting of a rocket loaded in a telescopic tube launcher.To fire the weopon,protective caps are removed and the inner tube is withdrawn to a locked position.The sights are raised and the target can be engaged.

CALIBRE: 66mm
LENGTH: 89cm
WEIGHT: 2.1kg
RANGE: 1000m (effective 200m)
MUZZLE VELOCITY: 145/sec
EFFECT: penetrates 260mm of armour plate
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA
INTRODUCED INTO THE N.Z ARMY IN 1967

Originally Posted by Dundee

EFFECT: penetrates 260mm of armour plate

Faaaark! thats impressive

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Faaaark! thats impressive

Yeh I was scared of both ends of the M72 "veitnamcam"

The danger radius for the back blast is 30 metres I see "dundee"

Well i'd be shitting bricks too if I was directly behind it. But in Vietnam a solid fart was welcome.Forget the actual quote.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Well i'd be shitting bricks too if I was directly behind it. But in Vietnam a solid fart was welcome.Forget the actual quote.

The quote was " Happiness today will be a dry fart"

Chapter 16 Bloody yanks

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