British Navy Field Gun Competition

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  • RED
    Very Senior Member - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 11689

    #1

    British Navy Field Gun Competition

    It began in 1880 and continued until 1999. The official reason for discontinuing the competition was because the services couldn't provide enough people. The real reason is likely that couldn't find enough women that could compete.

    It is still an amazing portrait of the cohesion, speed, and stamina required by participants.

  • Bill E
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 434

    #2
    Amazing, thanks much for posting.

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    • clintonhater
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 5220

      #3
      Originally posted by RED
      The real reason is likely that couldn't find enough women that could compete.
      No women, no "equality." So change the rules, requirements, or if that STILL doesn't make women competitive, claim it wasn't worth doing anyway.

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      • dryheat
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 10587

        #4
        I always wondered how they moved those guns.
        If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.

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        • lyman
          Administrator - OFC
          • Aug 2009
          • 11269

          #5
          interesting vid,
          Thanks for posting




          there's a reenacting group that moves a cannon across the Dan River in So Boston Va every Feb, part of a commemorative ceremony,

          interesting to watch, esp in the snow

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