Canadian 6pdr anti tank gun early model

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Rod

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When i first saw this gun many years back it was one of a number of different guns adorning the base at Portsea that was the school of infantry then taken over by army health in final days before disposal.
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I tried for a number of years to recover this gun and others but was hamstrung by changes in staff and attitudes to individuals trying to get these items out of Army bases in decline.
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Tell me about it! For a decade the little provincial rifle association with whom I used to shoot had warm and cooperative relations with the successive management at an isolated (but essential) Army base. The military doesn't shoot 1000yds for training except for the snipers, but for 2 decades the grounds staff kept mowing the grass and levelling the firing points just for us. Then the newly arrived Station Warrant Officer got a knot in his face about these civilians coming onto his camp, reminding him of Canadian Forces Administration Order 50-11 and 50-16, and he shut down the range. That SOB put up such an effective resistence that the association activated Plan B and emptied the bank accounts to buy 1 1/2 sq miles of grazing land for its own 1200yd rifle range. He got posted out and the grounds crew kept on mowing the grass.

[Rod Bellars (RIP)]

yes well there is good and bad in everythng we have to look beyond the individual and what is best for us at the time
you seem to have settled somewhere permanent and have control so indirectly he may have benefiitted you from it happening again by the next one like that .

Our federal customs are just as silly I ie can own it here workng , police in this state have no objection to import and condition but customs demand vandalizing it sick but part of life we can but fight on :-)
regards
Rod

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Rod

yes well there is good and bad in everythng we have to look beyond the individual and what is best for us at the time
you seem to have settled somewhere permanent and have control so indirectly he may have benefiitted you from it happening again by the next one like that .

Our federal customs are just as silly I ie can own it here workng , police in this state have no objection to import and condition but customs demand vandalizing it sick but part of life we can but fight on :-)
regards
Rod

We did look upon this fellow as a catalyst. The association had been able to invest several years' of windfall income and were making double-digit annual tax-free interest, but the tide was turning and progressively all the associations were having their separate troubles getting time on military ranges.

In the end, we bought 4 'quarter sections of land in a N/S row with 2 more on an off side. The club built its own 1200yd rifle range. There are no neighbours or landlords to make up silly restrictions. The provincial justice department made every effort to not be interested in what we were doing. And it is arguably a very difficult range to read the wind and shoot consecutive easy bullseyes.

[Rod Bellars (RIP)]

well sounds like you have settled but still not happy with them maybe a bit of an atatck on fellow is due by club saying how silly they are making you move or an attempt to buy th earmy range if you miss it so badly as many are downsizing and being sold off here so assume same world over
regards'
rod ,