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This week’s blog is from Hannes Wessel’s ‘A few hard men’, describing an SAS attack on a central and very important communications centre in the middle of Mozambique, on the ‘Russian Front’. Destruction of the facility would hamper fluid enemy movements and slow down their ability to mobilize against...
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Part 2 – Paradise Plundered. This is a small series of excerpts from a book of the same name and is written by Jim Barker who took over a piece of bush with nothing on it and turned it into a viable and valuable tobacco farm (Rhodesia produced some...
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The first half of this week’s blog is comprised of one more excerpt from Hannes Wessel’s book ‘A few hard men’, which is about the dreadful atrocity of a civilian Viscount aircraft belonging to Rhodesia Airways being shot out of the air by Joshua Nkomo’s ZIPRA terrorists, killing all...
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Before we start Tony’s blog I would like to ask that supporters share the link in other groups, firearms, military history or anything where people would enjoy reading these stories. Tony is putting a lot of time into sharing his personal experiences and I personally think it is wonderful...
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I finished my eighteen months of national service towards the end of October 1977. I now found myself in a quandary. Apart from a few months working in a bank before disappearing on my work-around-the world tour, I had not worked at all in my homeland and the thought...
As I’m sure many of us are already aware that UK legislation often isn’t the most friendly when it comes to items such as knives and firearms. There is often a myriad of legislation born from hysterical overreactions and irrational fear over such items. One area which whilst not...
Hi Guys, In an effort to expand our reach and continue to generate community spirit and show that us shooters are (relatively) normal people I thought it would be fun to list my top 5 manly man films. Now the criteria behind this are simple, they have to be...
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This week’s blog is an excerpt from Hannes Wessel’s book “A handful of hard men” which is dedicated to Darrell Watt, an SAS operator in the Rhodesian bush war. I have received special permission from Hannes to scan, copy and paste the following pages, which make a fascinating read,...
Last Friday I got the opportunity to visit Eskdalemuir 2 Mile range, I first heard about the range when Helen dropped by our stand at the Northern Shooting Show and helped us touch base with Marc Gardener owner of Gardner’s guns and the range. My first thoughts were mind...
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Dear Firearms UK community, due to my wife going into hospital in the next day or so, I am changing my plan for the blog this week as the past two blogs have taken me eleven hours each. I was going to talk about repelling a battalion-sized incursion into Rhodesia,...
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