M14 Forum

SapperCS · September 5th, 2011, 02:21 PM

Got the chance to expend several rounds through one while at Mt Home, Idaho in the mid 80's. I heard they were surplus rounds and needed to be cooked off. That was a very fun day at the range. The guy assigned the tube prior to me had it for a few years and never got to shoot it. One of many fond memories.

12B10 all the way...

CPTKILLER · September 6th, 2011, 12:18 PM

The 90mm recoiless role was accurate but heavy. I did not want to shoot at a fast moving group of any kind of Russian tanks. With it's range you might get one shot off at 400 meters. A 2nd shot would be iffy.

Two reasons about the 2nd shot is that the tanks are firing the world at you & the 2nd shot would be close to point blank range. We never had any in Vietnam in my infantry company.

I'll stick my tanks to take out other tanks.