Erika Shoots a Bren gun.
This is, in my opinion, one of the sexiest videos I've ever seen on Youtube. There is a reason for that, but that's for another post.
Some other thoughts...
I've been to a few of these re-enacting things, always with TSO, and it's pretty common to see some fairly scary firearms handling. It's obvious to me a lot of these people have likely never fired their weapons with anything except blanks. This is particularly apparent in the older time periods, where I strongly suspect a lot of the 'military units' contain people that have never launched a round ball from their muskets.
The positions of the observers with 'Erika' would indicate they're not used to being on a firing line. The camera operator is very obviously past the muzzle of the gun, a dangerous place to be even (possible especially) with blank rounds.
The BREN is probably one of the semi-automatic build guns, and when 'Erika' triggers off a quick sort-of-burst at the beginning of the video clip, it looks suspiciously like bump-fire, or the result of her not holding the weapon tightly enough while working the trigger. The remainder of the rounds are semi-automatic.
I think I would (well, okay, I know I would) have been much more attentive to posture, sighting, trigger press, operation of the weapon, etc. with an inexperienced operator, blanks or not. But I have an unerring knack for taking every last bit of fun out of shooting...
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Something about the way women dressed in the 40s.
ReplyDeleteAs attractive as she is in the video, I couldn't help but wonder:
- was there something up with the trigger pull, too stiff perhaps?
- how would the magazine impact field of vision
- would it be easier to keep on target because of the limited field of view, or would I tend to aim off center, away from the magazine (if that makes any sense)