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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
You could really torque off a lot of folks if he also had a laser rangefinder, and one of those new hunting scopes that has a built-in digital camera that takes stills and videos looking down the same optics the shooter is using.
teehee, the camera scope might be a little much. How about a setup that would make a passable sniper rifle in a pinch?
You guys are really making me feel like a slacker. As usual, I have no plot, let alone extensive character sketches or any kind of outline.
I figger I should work out plot details while I’m motivated to do so. There’s no telling when my obsession will fizzle out.
Any decent rifle with a decent scope, and a decent shooter makes for a passable sniper rifle. You don't need a "super rifle" until you're trying for a first-shot kill out past about 500 yards. No respectable hunter would try to take game beyond ranges like that without specialized equipment, and lots of experience.
Humans are easy to kill, and any good Highlands hunter could get the job done at the ranges likely to be encountered there. It's the non-hunter who does not understand these capabilities.
I've read about Russian "designated marksmen" fighting in Chechnya. With both sides armed with AK-type weapons, the average guy thinks in terms of a "battlefield" about 50 meters wide, which is about the extent of practical aimed fire (if you're even trained to aim) with an AK. A designated marksman may have a better weapon with a scope (in this case a SVD), but otherwise works, trains, and fights with everyone else in his unit.
They said it was amazing how easy it was to kill someone 200-300 meters behind "the lines" because the enemy's mental process was fixed on that 50-meter-wide "ribbon". Beyond that, and you thought you were safe.
One Marine shooter had a similar sentiment. He killed a guy with an RPG out in the open at about 800 meters. One of Omar's buddies tried to pick up the weapon, and he died, too. So did Mohamed, Abdul, and Usama. Finally, with seven bodies piled around this RPG, the rest of the bunch decided there was someone out there shooting at them, and was good at hitting them. They ran off.
hmmm, ‘items with stories’ well, his gun cabinet should include a drilling, a double barrel shotgun with a rifle barrel underneath. Very popular in Germany, many of them made it to our shores with the GI’s following WWII. Some doubtless ended up in England. The drillings were generally 16ga shotgun and 9.3X72R which is an excellent hunting weapon for winged pursuits and big game like European elk (our moose). Now if it was 9.3 X 74R it would be suitable for African big game as well.
As for our brash ‘American’ rifle, how bout a Weatherby rifle, .300 Weatherby Magnum. For years those were the ‘high roller’ big game rifle of choice.
Me too. But at least I have a plan for trimming the floor in thesunroom. :)
one leg shorter that t'other... asthma...
And there's always the George Bailey 4F --- punctured eardrum.
And how are you doing? I read about your new boss ... I thought I'd had every kind of manager, but I've never had one who openws staff meeting with prayer! That's a man with his eye on the true prize!
You want to come over for dinner tonight?... we’ve made a pot roast. :~)
We can watch something that’s bad for cops... like Blues Brothers or something :~)
Heh...works fer me. What time?
It’ll be ready about 5 - come over whenever you like :~) - I’m about to jump in the tub, so maybe I won’t even smell like pasture mowing.
After a message likie that from my boss, I would become much more interested in guns myself.
HILARIOUS!
Unless'n, of course, you have phobias.
what winmag said... yuh gotta remember the utter lack of technical skill and pathetic hygiene of yer average islamo$#ithead... Soviet gear was made with the peasant soldier in mind... I have seen AKs that you would have sworn were scrap iron function flawlessly... parts and ammo are plentiful...
RPKs and 12.7s in the trucks...
You shameless hussy, you! ;o)
Speaking of lack of skill... supposing the protagonists intercept a shipment of said soviet-bloc equipment, would it be realistic for them to be able operate them with minimum fiddlin'? (I have to take the characters from havin' a household of hunting rifles to being armed-to-the-teeth guerilla fighters)
what winmag said...
yuh gotta remember what the islamo$#itheads consider a sniper... if'n you can hit a man at 100 yds with an old Enfield .303 with a scope, you're considered an exceptional marksman... most of the time, they don't even aim... they empty the mag screamin' "imshallah!", and figure if Allah wills it, they'll actually hit somethin... the concept of target acquisition, engaging with one aimed shot is completely foreign tuh these numbnuts...
any accurate rifle, scoped, can be a "sniper weapon" out to 500 hunnert yds... then yuh seperate the men from the boys... and your talkin' about handloaded ammo at that point...
I took a guy with a headshot at about 220 yds with iron sights... it's the guy behind the rifle...
like I sais, designed for peasant soldiers...
no kiddin, I could teach you to field strip, clean and proficiently operate an AK in about 30 minutes...
Achnad?... about two weeks...
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