Posted on 08/25/2008 3:58:21 AM PDT by sig226
couple houses in detroit? so that’s a $100 gun? :P
Good plan.
Ever met a “caveman”?
Troglodyte has a much nicer ring to it ;-)
The new price of the semi automatic FG42 is $10,000.00 plus 10% federal excise tax plus shipping and insurance to the buyers FFL holder.
I've always thought that custom engraving was more fitting on handguns, though I've never owned one meself. The closest I've ever come, or care to come again, is the nice look of a Renaissance Browning Hi-Power.
Troglodyte has a much nicer ring to it ;-)
Let's take the average caveman, at home, listening to his stereo....
“Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, Bertha Butt.”
LOL
Why spend that much on a PSG-1, which fires 7.62, when you can spend less and get a Barrett, which fires .50?
If you want to kill a truck, or a fuel tank, or a satellite dish antenna at 1500 meters, yep, the Barrett is indeed the better choice. But if you want a better than 50% probability of hitting the truck driver, or the tech hooking up the antenna at the same range, and you have to carry your own rifle, and your ammo, and your food and water, and maybe a radio and some other useful novelties, the PSG-1 might be the way to go.
And certainly there are other semiauto sniper and target rifles that shoot as well or nearly as well as the PSG-1, some costing much less. But whether they will remain capable of that same level of accuracy after a thousand rounds, or 3000, or 5000 is something else again.
I know of three very capable and qualified shooters who have their choice of equipment, anything in the world, and they took PSG-1s as their semiauto. And I've known one of them since 1998, and though he shoots around a thousand a year through it, last year it still shot as well as it did ten years and circa 10,000 rounds ago.
Well that sounds like a trustworthy piece to have. What about the SR-25? If I had any choice of long-range semi-auto, that would probably be it, if only because it’s used by the SEALs.
I know one guy who actually bought one of those things. It was a Lapua, too. We all looked at that little muzzle brake and even though it weighed 16 pounds, no thank you.
Have fun. :)
I have a Winchester 1886 in 45-90. It has the traditional curved "rifle butt", known even in those days as a "pain intensifier". Shot a lot of 500 gr cast bullets through it.
The welt on my shoulder, and the partial paralysis, only lasted a couple of days.
Ahh.. I like that. A touch of class in and amongst the roomsfull of $100 rifles.
They have a great many novelties in their toybox, and the SR-25 is certainly one that was very highly thought of in that community. Lately, seems to be the big item on their want lists....
Not quite a thousand yard rifle, but pretty damned close.
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Beats the Mark 48 in rounds per minute.
Just so. But it's not in 7,62 x 52mm NATO.
The equivalent Stoner gun would be the Stoner 62 LMG, which never reached large-scale production or adoption.
Wish I had such a collection. I keep a basic Remington Express 12 Gauge within reach at all times at my place. Still deciding whether I should switch to 00 shot over the 1 shot I keep handy.
Not quite a thousand yard rifle, but pretty damned close.
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The 7.62 NATO can do the job out to a thousand meters pretty well, and it looks like you've got enough glass on top to be able to see what you're doing out that far.
I once was out with a commanding officer of mine who had been snookered into a bet with a British Royal Marine veteran of the Falklands War who favoured the British L42A1, essentially a WWII #4 Lee-Enfield rebarrelled to 7,62 and topped with a 4x scope. The bet was on a leaky 5-gallon Jerrycan on the 1000 meter line: for every hit the Brit made my boss owed him a dollar; for every miss the Brit would pay him two.
Thirty-six dollars in the hole later, my boss called it quits. Two misses out of forty tries made it pretty clear that the RM shooter had things pretty well dialed in. And that was with the British 144-grain L2A1 ball ammo, not match loads.
With 175grain M118LR or Black Hills equivalent, you ought to be able to do about as well....
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