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AussieJohnDoe
12-10-2006, 05:23 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/dqxbKJEBL1U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqxbKJEBL1U
ShotOver
12-10-2006, 05:28 AM
This will bring back some memories for Digrar p-)
AussieJohnDoe
12-10-2006, 05:32 AM
This will bring back some memories for Digrar p-)

roflroflrofl
Spets06
12-10-2006, 05:33 AM
nice video good find
digrar
12-10-2006, 05:36 AM
This will bring back some memories for Digrar p-)

**** off....
ShotOver
12-10-2006, 05:41 AM
Hook, line and sinker. Haha
Ballistic
12-10-2006, 05:42 AM
Hahahahahahaha :D Nice one PT. :D

I'm loving the pistol shooting style. rofl
MalteseFalcon
12-10-2006, 05:42 AM
Nice find mate go the owen wish Australia did make another SMG (beside the F1)
TyroneBiggums
12-10-2006, 05:46 AM
@maltesefalcon - nice avatar, looks familiar :D

nice video AussieJohnDoe, thanks
Con-man
12-10-2006, 06:08 AM
Some parts of the video are damaged to all hell but still a damn fine bit of Aussie history, thanks for posting man, I showed this to my dad and he remembers videos like it at the time (He was in army cadets in the 60's).
astro
12-10-2006, 06:12 AM
I'm someone has made the effort to digitise that, especially given the state of it. Any more details where it's from AJD? I assume they had IET's back then?
OldRecon
12-10-2006, 07:41 AM
Some distant Australian relative of mine (the husband of my mother's niece or something like that) once told me that he was thaught to tilt the Owen gun a bit when firing from the hip, and the result would be a nice diagonal spread of bullets accross the target.
Any thruth in that story?
He apparently did his national service in the army around 1958-59 (late 1950's - too early to serve in Nam anyway).
exarmyguard
12-10-2006, 07:43 AM
Interesting mix of US and British gear.
winchester_down
12-10-2006, 07:46 AM
Some distant Australian relative of mine (the husband of my mother's niece or something like that) once told me that he was thaught to tilt the Owen gun a bit when firing from the hip, and the result would be a nice diagonal spread of bullets accross the target.
Any thruth in that story?
He apparently did his national service in the army around 1958-59 (late 1950's - too early to serve in Nam anyway).

Yes there is some truth in that, instead of the first round hitting and the rest trailing off you get the middle of the burst on the centre of the target.
digrar
12-10-2006, 08:11 AM
I'm someone has made the effort to digitise that, especially given the state of it. Any more details where it's from AJD? I assume they had IET's back then?

I thought some of it (about a half second) looked a bit like Canungra. I wouldn't take that as gospel though.
spoonkilr
12-10-2006, 07:24 PM
I've been noticing that the shooting practice of pistols during WWII and the following post-war period is all one handed. Anyone have a clue why?
bigjeff
12-11-2006, 12:51 AM
damn i see a bunch of owens!!!!
thx mate!!!
MalteseFalcon
12-11-2006, 01:38 AM
@maltesefalcon - nice avatar, looks familiar :D

Yeah Maltese Flag used by the Armed Forces of Malta trying to make a Aussie/Maltese one abit hard.

Doesn't the owen have a touchy trigger (heard if it got dropped the thing went off)
Chauncey
12-11-2006, 03:02 AM
Great Vid - there's just something "tough-looking" about the SLR that doesn't seem to compare with rifles these days, with all the plastic bits and bolt-on aiming devices, torches, Gucci sights, etc...
Aussie Sapper
12-11-2006, 03:14 AM
Great Vid - there's just something "tough-looking" about the SLR that doesn't seem to compare with rifles these days, with all the plastic bits and bolt-on aiming devices, torches, Gucci sights, etc...
I carried one for a while in that quaint little south east asian country,, (you know the one I mean) Never let me down,, damm fine rifle.
kamarian
12-11-2006, 08:25 AM
Yeah Maltese Flag used by the Armed Forces of Malta trying to make a Aussie/Maltese one abit hard.

Doesn't the owen have a touchy trigger (heard if it got dropped the thing went off)


Nah, that was the sten. the owen was a bit like the AK. bury it in mud, pull it out, and it will fire.Very tough, well made piece of kit. It was extremely popular with aussie troops in the pacific in WW2
MalteseFalcon
12-12-2006, 05:26 AM
Then why hasn't Australia just "upgraded" the model
Con-man
12-12-2006, 06:27 AM
Nah, that was the sten. the owen was a bit like the AK. bury it in mud, pull it out, and it will fire.Very tough, well made piece of kit. It was extremely popular with aussie troops in the pacific in WW2

Not at the start though, you could drop it and it'd go off easily, fortunately they fixed it up. After that (According to my grandfather who served in Bouganville, god rest his soul) they were quite a good gun to use, he still stuck to the Lee Enfield though.
Major_Ass
12-13-2006, 02:26 AM
Awesome vid,

Would anyone happen to know where it was taken ie; what training base?
kamarian
12-13-2006, 02:48 AM
Then why hasn't Australia just "upgraded" the model

why do you think, It was upgraded, but wasn't really needed by the ADF after the war.
LRPV
12-13-2006, 02:50 AM
Nah, that was the sten. the owen was a bit like the AK. bury it in mud, pull it out, and it will fire.Very tough, well made piece of kit. It was extremely popular with aussie troops in the pacific in WW2

What the AK?
LRPV
12-13-2006, 02:51 AM
Nah, that was the sten. the owen was a bit like the AK. bury it in mud, pull it out, and it will fire.Very tough, well made piece of kit. It was extremely popular with aussie troops in the pacific in WW2

...and you would rememberp-)
digrar
12-13-2006, 02:52 AM
They were used through to the start of Viet Nam. I've read about diggers getting their Owen taken off them in the field and were given a still wrapped in plastic m16. Not test fired and no instruction given on how to use it.
MalteseFalcon
12-13-2006, 08:38 AM
LOL what a weird thing to say (after the war they didn't need it) it is a gun like the SLR or the M60 just because your not at war doesn't mean you don't need a gun
kamarian
12-19-2006, 03:28 AM
LOL what a weird thing to say (after the war they didn't need it) it is a gun like the SLR or the M60 just because your not at war doesn't mean you don't need a gun

what i meant to say, was with the introduction of the F1, the owen was replaced by it. not that they didnt need the weapons.
OldRecon
12-19-2006, 04:35 AM
I've been noticing that the shooting practice of pistols during WWII and the following post-war period is all one handed. Anyone have a clue why?

I guess old habits die hard.
The pistols were originaly developed as a firearm for mounted personel (cavalry, mounted officers ... and the like), with the idea that you only needed one hand on the gun so that the other was free to hold the reins.
And as there were horse mounted cavalry around well into the 1930's and even later in some nations, I guess it took a while, after pistol armed soldiers lost their horses, to realize that you could fire pistols with both hands on the weapon to positive effect. :lol:.
Just a guess though :roll: