|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
124.171.71.66
Friday before Anzac Day, parade Ground in Front of AWM looking down Anzac Parade and across Lake Burley Griffin to the old and new Parliament Houses.
The mounted folk are re-enactors who recall our Australian Light Horse. some have kept their uni from for the day. If youc look closely you will see that some are carrying a 1908 cavalry sword! Crrect for period. All have an SMLE/III in a boot under their saddles.
The row standing in front are AWM staff and Anzac Day participants.
Our Canada Maple a few weeks ago.
We had our first frost last Friday. -1 degrees C.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/06/17 05/06/17 05/06/17 05/07/17 05/07/17 05/07/17 05/07/17Follow Ups:
Do you have much of a change in temps and precipitation during your fall and winter? I suppose you get some of the famous monsoons common to your northern cousins on the mainland of Asia?
see the post to FL below.
Northern Australia, West to East is prone to cyclones aka hurricanes.
We sometimes benefit from that if the lows reach down to here.
The Southern half and esp. inland of Australia is quite dry.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Agree with FL - very nice photos.You're headed into fall, we had our first 80+F degree day yesterday and our first thunderstorm this evening. The wife is busy planting flowers and cleaning the yard while I'm getting the pickup and 5th wheel ready for their first trip in two weeks. Looking at refinishing the front porch, deck and back porch and painting the south wall of the house. I start there then do one wall a summer for four years, then a five to six year break and start again.
Sadly the south central/eastern part of the U.S. is headed into tornado and heavy rain season. I'd rather deal with cold weather and an occasional blizzard that go through what those folks do.
Edit: I should have titled this "Montana in Spring.
Edits: 05/06/17
What is the usual coldest temp, of year, in Canberra?
SMLE is like the only behind the Mosin-Nagant in length of service for a bolt-action rifle, right?
A .402in calibre rifle was tested but in 1888 the Lee Metford in .303in and using gun-powder (black-powder) propellant. Magazine of 8 rds capacity.Issued as the Magazine Rifle Mk1.
Lee action rifles remained in service until 1957 on general issue, and for sniper use for far longer.
In British service the selected (and then scoped) No.4. sniper rifles were re-barrelled and chambered for 7.62mm NATO.
Australian snipers were still using SMLEIII 'T' rifles into the late 1970s, I was trained on one.
Australian and NZ infantry kept the SMLEIII until 1957. It's full name is, "Rifle. No. 1! Short, Magazine, Lee Enfield, Mark III!"
The .303 ball ammunition went though several changes. Spitzer bullet MkVII ball ammunition lasted from the early 1900s until the 1970s. Mostly MkVII target ammunition for the last 2 decades.
Mk8z ammunition with a boat-tailed bullet, hotter propellant, higher MV and longer range, was designed for the Vickers MG Mk1 and stayed in service with them until they were no longer used.
The British Air Forces developed a lot of different projectiles for the .303 calibre. WWI and WWII.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/07/17
here you go!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: