China Lake 40mm Grenade Launcher at the Range
Grenade & Flare Launchers
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Today we have a chance to take one of the reproduction China Lake 40mm grenade launchers out to the range! We are using practice chalk rounds...let's see how it goes! Only a handful of these were made, and perhaps we will find out why they were not more seriously considered by the military...
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