Originally Posted by
Hsing-ee
A bloke I worked with at the Medical Research Council in the early 1980s used to take his SMLE No.4 in a case on his Honda 250 to the ranges at Otmoor. I think he might have taken out a noisy, crapping seagull that built a nest on his chimney with it as well. A rural type of fellow.
Still, those were the days that the USAF were storing 200-odd Tomahawk cruise missiles at Greenham, each with a 250-kiloton nuclear warhead. The locals were informed that the massive stockpile of death was an 'Insurance Policy' in a nice friendly leaflet. We had a sense of proportion in those days.