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Machine guns found near Kansas creek
Topeka Capital-Journal ^
| 31 dec 2004
| AP
Posted on 12/31/2004 3:00:06 AM PST by csvset
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To: Cobra64
Builder: Saco Defense Length: 61.42 inches (156 centimeters)
Weight: Gun: 84 pounds (38 kilograms)
M3 Tripod (Complete): 44 pounds (19.98 kilograms)
Total: 128 pounds (58 kilograms)
Bore diameter: .50 inches (12.7mm)
Maximum effective range: 2000 meters with tripod mount
Maximum range: 4.22 miles (6.8 kilometers)
Maximum effective range: is 1,830 meters
Cyclic rate of fire: 550 rounds per minute
Unit Replacement Cost: $14,002
It is definitely a machine gun...
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:52:09 AM PST
by
Jaxter
("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
To: csvset
My attitude is "FINDERS KEEPERS"!
Ok, so I won't be able to play with them an can only visit them when the wife is gone and after dark and no one is around!
I can't afford to feed them and there are too many people in the area who might get suspicious of the rata-tat tat! So all I can do is look!
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posted on
12/31/2004 4:24:37 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Pity the poor athiest. He has no one to put the blame on.)
To: csvset
I once found eight perfectly serviceable Browning .50 caliber machineguns still loaded with 1942 lot ammunition. I was an active duty second Lieutenant back then, so I had to report the find and turn the weapons in.
Hint: they were in the wings of a wrecked plane that had crash-landed under some trees on Kahoolawe Island and that plane was still sitting there, undiscovered until I found it in 1975.
For the Freeper airplane buffs: what kind of plane was it? Bonus points if you can tell me what year it crashed - it had the star and white bar national insignia on it.
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posted on
12/31/2004 4:51:56 AM PST
by
USMCVet
To: csvset
How come I never found any machine gun when I went fishing?
To: USMCVet
Had to be B-17, but other US Army Air Force bombers were used for
skip bombing.
Of course, it may be the Liberator or Maurader [spelling?] -- B-24 & B-26 -- but I don't remember them having as many .50 Cal guns.
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:01:00 AM PST
by
topher
(God bless & Protect our Troops)
Comment #26 Removed by Moderator
To: USMCVet
Republic P-47 ?D "JUG" 1944...
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:06:51 AM PST
by
mo
To: DeepInTheHeartOfTexas
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:15:07 AM PST
by
mo
To: CDHart
Is a .50 cal a machine gun?Think : Blender set to 'Frappe'...
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:20:57 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: mo
Yeah, a P47 that's gotta be it. Corsair only had six guns, P51 had four? Bombers had 12+.
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:23:53 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Who is General Chat?)
To: mo; USMCVet
P-47B OR C... Assuming the plane went down in '42-'44. I would doubt that Hawaii saw many of our best WWII fighters (P-47D). Hawaii was an operational backwater by the time the "D" model started reaching front-line units (mid '43), and they we're badly needed in the ETO at that time).
If it went down late in the war, it could have been the P-47N, which was designed specifically for pacific operations, but the '42 ammo suggests to me that it was an earlier model.
What say you, USMCVet?
To: mo; Rebelbase
Yep. You guys have to be correct. I was surprised about the lack of information but when Mo mentioned the Thunderbolt I knew he was correct. The P-47 was the only fighter we had in World War Two which carried eight .50 caliber machine guns in the wings.
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:36:30 AM PST
by
Shooter 2.5
(Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems.)
To: TN4Liberty
Besides, really, where would you go shoot them anyway.Well, there's this 10-foot area between my house and a nice wooden backdrop of a nursey-school.
Perfect.
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:36:30 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
To: Caipirabob
"Blender set to 'Frappe'..."
LOL! Very clear explanation!
Carolyn
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:36:48 AM PST
by
CDHart
To: USMCVet
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:38:53 AM PST
by
F-117A
To: Cobra64
I hate these articles that talk about "machine guns."Only problem is, they're talking about machine guns.
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:39:20 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
To: USMCVet
My guess is it was a Navy craft...Wildcat?
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I'm pretty much the same way with women.
To: wingnut1971
I think the Grumman Wildcats only had 6 MGs in the wings
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:44:14 AM PST
by
boofus
To: Shooter 2.5
Republic P 47D Thunderbolt. The white bar insignia was introduced on August 14, 1943, and was used until 1947. As the plane was used as an escort for B 29s, and was lost on a training mission, I will go with 1945. I figure they were burning older ammo for training purposes.
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posted on
12/31/2004 5:44:20 AM PST
by
Agent Smith
(Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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