Wacky Rig.

[FlyRod]

Originally Posted by bassfisher02

Thats a huge spotlight mounted above the cannon, I bet it lit everything up.

You bet it did! It's a Xenon light AND an Infrared as well. On "Normal" setting, the white light would illuminate a target well beyond the maximum effective range (limited by the fire control ballistics computer, the 105mm round would reach the moon, ). We'd set the light to pencil beam and boresight the gun to strike the center of the beam, then fire test rounds to zero it in tightly. The tank commander (yours truly) could select "Overdrive" which would increase the light output further. You could read a newspaper at over 15 miles.
The Infrared feature turned off the white light and the gunner's Infrared sight would pick up the target. The poor saps we were shooting at had no idea they were being lit up until we REALLY lit 'em up. The gunner could choose (at my discretion, of course,) whether to engage with the main gun (if the target was a tank, armored carrier, bunker, etc.,) OR the .30 cal MG mounted coaxially with the main boomer (Troops in the open, trucks, etc.)
I had control of the "fiddycal" at my position and I could take control of the turret, main gun and coax MG by gripping the commander's override and using my rangefinder as a sight. We often ran without a gunner, but ya gotta have a loader.
The main gun's ammo choices were HEAT; (High Explosive Anti-tank, a shaped charge that could defeat any armor plate at any range.), HEP; (High Explosive Plastic.) This little jewel did not penetrate. It flattened against the target and exploded, causing "spalling"; Chunks of armor would chip off INSIDE the target and ricochet around along with radios, ammo, beer bottles, and whatever else they had...all became lethal schrapnel inside. This round might allow one to capture a relatively intact target. Of course you had to vacuum out the former owners.
The gun, by the way, was a license-built British Vickers L7. The barrel in mine was actually stamped "Manufactured by Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corp." Funny, since I learned to drive and was "raised on" Olds.
Then there were various colored smoke rounds and the REAL fun one, "Beehive", This little item fired a couple thousand tiny darts, called flechettes, from the main boomer. It replaced the Canister Round that fired a wad of roller bearings. "Beehive" had an effective range of a few hundred meters and could pass through a tree trunk of perhaps 6" thickness at considerable range. The legends telling of baddies being stapled to trees and wooden structures are true. Spot a sniper in a tree, and...heeheehee!
All those fun toys...at taxpayer's expense! Great!

Garryowen!

FR

[BigBassin144]

Man I'd really hate to have been up against you guys...
Sounds like an awesome tank too. My friend who's really into that stuff would love it. I'll send him the pic and you post. I'll see what he says.

[BigBassin144]

BC4, why not try wacky rigged lizards? or something with a swimming tail, it'll get mroe action on the fall and attract more fish.

[basschamp4]

i thought about that but it seemed like everyone i talked made the wacky rig sound like a stickbait rig only

[basschamp4]

everyone made it sound like a stick bait rig only

[basschamp4]

ok that was an accident

[bassfisher02]

You can delete posts you know.

PS: why listen to 'people?' Honestly be original [even though it wouldnt be because many people have done that] but the point is do whatever it takes to catch fish, there are no limits.

[BigBassin144]

Yeah. If I'm not getting hits on say... a Senkos (although I don't buy em cause they too $$$) anyways, I'd try something different, Wacky Rig a Lizard, or once I even tryed Using Soom Super swim chunks, I rigged 'em right through the middle of the chunk. You have to be versatile. there is no specific way to fish sometihng, so experiment.

[basschamp4]

allright ill try some different things

[BigBassin144]

Yeah. What ever floats your boat. ( no pun intended ) or in my case, whatever sinks my boat cause its soo full of fish.