Thumper or Blooper

Subject: Thumper or Blooper Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:08 pm

Which one its so thumper due to the thump noise.

Subject: Re: Thumper or Blooper Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:09 pm

No...Its "blooper"
Im just posting to defend the other side of this arguement.

Subject: Re: Thumper or Blooper Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:15 pm

To end this with civilitly i found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M79_grenade_launcher
In summary it says it has many names and "Thumper" or "Blooper" are just some common ones. HEHEHEHE jocolor

Subject: Re: Thumper or Blooper Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:46 am

It´s both, depending on which one and the branch of service,

The M79 was known as the Thumper by pretty much everybody, later the M203, because of its metalic `` Clang ´´ when shooting got nicknamed the blooper, I also think the Blooper got a bit of the nickname because of shooter mistakes, when using the 203 in a direct fire role, gunners have the tendancy to rest the M16 barrel on an object, wall, tree branch, window sill, of course the 203 is now behind a fixed object, so when fired guess where the round goes ?

BAM !! into the wall, and bloop lands at your feet ! LOL

Alot of gunners can be thankful for the 9-12 verticle rotations it takes to arm the warhead.

Just my thoughts.