Hi guys,

Sorry John, still not satisfied with your theory! On the first pic I posted one can clearly see that the loop is closed, it’s firmly attached by both its ends to a triangular mounting plate in the middle of the gun cradle, between the shell ejection holes. It is also quite short, if memory serves me correctly it can’t have been more than, say, 12 cm or so in length. So, as it’s a closed loop there’s no hooking things on it, also there’s only one loop per cradle but you have two rear gun securing pins per cradle so by your theory you’d need two bungee ends per cradle. The rear sear release hoses do dangle down when not connected to the guns.

Finally, none of the photos or drawings we both have show the rear pins to be attached to anything and furthermore, the detailed drawing of such a pin in AP 2799R shows no hole where you could hook your bungee up to!

I for one am sticking to Mike’s explanation which is backed up by his FN121 manual. This is good fun though, isn’t it :)?

Cheers mates,

Walter