<yorkshire accent on> Ae, when I wer't lad, we didn't have none of them fancy telescopic sights - we had proper rifles, then, like SLRs, which could knock a man down at 1000 yards (you couldn't see them, but if they got in the way, they were in trouble)
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(They didn't half give you a nasty bruise on your shoulder, though, if you didn't tuck them in tight)