Quote Originally Posted by max headroom View Post
dont know if this poor shooting. we were on the range one day and tried to re-quess when the pointer would go down and the target would come up. i got it wrong. i broke the pointer.
the lump of wood, not the poor sod holding it. (in them thar days the pointer was a lump of wood with a triangle on it, the bloke holding it was also called a pointer)
I remember our pointers were quite sturdy round discs and if stood upright half of the disc could just be seen from the firing point. HIT THIS DISC AND THE WHOLE STICK WENT WHANGING ROUND THE BUTTS. Those were the days..