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BeerBurner

08-19-2008 06:36 PM

Now that's a stripper clip!

No, not that kind of stripper, you perverts!

We were going through my stepmom's garage when we found the shells and clip for one of the Bofors guns from my dad's AC-130 in Vietnam. Of course, since he wasn't allowed to send war material home, he declared them as "Four 40-millimeter brass vases with vase holder."

They kind of dwarf the 8mm Mauser stripper clip, don't they...?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/...01e9c0.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/...78b3f1.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/...9d50d6.jpg?v=0

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}{arlequin

08-19-2008 06:41 PM

this title is false advertising

Mark in Baltimore

08-19-2008 07:56 PM

Any photos of the gun?

BeerBurner

08-19-2008 08:06 PM

Here you go!

But this is what the gun actually looks like.

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edevinney

08-19-2008 08:51 PM

40mm strippers in hot breechloading action!

http://homepage.mac.com/ejd/.Pictures/ac130e.jpg

Trak Ratt

08-19-2008 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by }{arlequin (Post 218583)

this title is false advertising

Yet oddly I had a clue what it would be. But like so many times you don't know how big it is untill you get inside :p

Thanks for the pic, I haven't seen one of those for a long time... and it's been a long time since I could say that :D

Mark in Baltimore

08-19-2008 10:02 PM

Thanks! That gun is take-no-prisoners big.

Lupin..the..3rd

08-19-2008 11:37 PM

Cool pics!!

BeerBurner

08-20-2008 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark in Baltimore (Post 218645)

Thanks! That gun is take-no-prisoners big.

The 40 mm is small on the current AC-130s. They also have a 105 mm howitzer. :D

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