I'd have thought
you should have been a fuck sight more concerned about the red-hot spent shell casing that would have hit you in the face if you fire a plastic spastic left handed, myself.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 11:31, 1 reply)

That's a good point.
Why the hell was I not hit in the face with a shell casing? I can't remember - it was 20 years ago and I was 17.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 11:40, closed)

probably lucky ;)
I used to instruct cadets on L98s. Even worse, because sticking a half-arsed cocking handle on an SA and then disabling the semi-auto mechanism means the bastards jammed all the time. Often, because, y'know, firearms aren't dangerous enough already, they'd jam a live shell sideways in the exhaust port. Nice.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 11:44, closed)