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Subject: [OM] Re: How do you carry "Big Bertha"
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:48:57 -0400
Thanks, I'll try it.  I was never an infantryman.  My "tools" were a 
pair of headsets and radios tuned to "the other side".

Chuck Norcutt

Bob Whitmire wrote:
> This begins to approach the weight of my old M-14, back in the Army  
> daze (9.5 lbs, I believe). <g>  Have you tried the infantryman's  
> carry? Cradle the body in your left hand, and let the lens lie along  
> your forearm. Hold in tight to your belly and side. You can walk for  
> miles this way, or you could if you were 19. <wink> Then, when a shot  
> presents, you merely grab the body with your right hand, slide your  
> left up the lens, swing into position and blaze, er, click away.
> 
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 11, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
>> The grand total is 2548 grams or 5.6 pounds with the body supplying  
>> not much more than 1/3 of the total.
> 
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