By: Steve Rice

Steve Rice — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:07:09 +0000

I travelled around Cambodia and never talked to anyone, or heard from anyone who actually fired a rocket launcher at a cow. I imagine though that even an experienced operator would have trouble hitting one. They tried to charge me $20 US extra for a chicken even after I’d forked out $500US for one round on the rocket Launcher ($350) a hand grenade ($50) and $100 for 100 rounds on some belt fed Russian machine gun (K-56 or 59 or something). So if that’s the price they wanted for a chicken I’d hate to think want price they would try to extort out of you for a cow. But Cambodia is the sort of place where for the right price they would get you anything.
For the above three items they took us to a property a fair drive from the main gun range outside Phnom Penh. Im not sure how many of these ranges operate in Cambodia but I was told you can’t fire the rocket launcher in Siem Reap.
The prices are extortionate considering it seems that everything is paid for by the military and everyone involved seems to be getting paid off along the way.Im sure I paid too much but I found them very hard to negotiate with.
But all that aside it was a great experience. Its another one of those awesome things that they would never let you do in a first world country.

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By: Steve Rice