Checked now. (It helps when there's nobody about to laugh at you...) Cocking lever seems fine. Sights rather awkward. Possible, maybe, but you may well endanger your collar bone if even a little higher than prone.
No photos, then? I'd sort of assumed sights being replicated on the right hand side of the body, rather than trying to look round the mag.
Aye left-handedness wasn't tolerated much let alone encouraged by mass conversion of any gear to suit. Maybe southpaws were fine in boxing but I imagine most lefties were so routinely obliged or coerced into adopting right-handedness for any bit of equipment, domestic or otherwise, that it wasn't much of an issue for those making decisions. Left handed soldiers?
I imagine your collar bone would not be the only thing endangered if a little higher than prone...but there were no lefties in the Kings army...imo
I agree. Just checking after Dave's thought, and I imagine sometimes people might want to fire from left of cover.
Substituting Brens for an MG 34, the 1st Canadian Division German Demonstration Team. In its War Diary the 7th Reconnaissance Regiment recorded a visit by the Team, on 21 April, 1943 The 1st Canadian Division German Demonstration Team
The post War School of Infantry took the few that a trained soldier should be capable of taking up a fire position on either shoulder. If you are advancing down both sides of a street or among trees, half of the available cover is on each shoulder. Drummed into a generation of British soldiers facing the prospect of Northern Ireland (It then changed its mind when SA 80- was introduced)
The Bren was the best gun that i have fired. Photo is of a cammo bren that the british army tried out in ww2. only a few were made.
Aren't the Bren and BAR really just playing for second place after the Chauchat? All kidding aside, how did the Chauchat ever make it into production? France was producing some very good weapons, engines, airplanes, etc so what happened? The long recoil system it used was invented by the great John Browning Was it a poor design, poor manufacturing, or a combination of both? And was it really as awful as it is reputed to be? The 30:06 version seems to have been the worst due to faulty chamber finishing. Chauchat - Wikipedia