How about the M4 w/grenade launcher?
Posted on 01/21/2005 7:51:46 PM PST by SolidRedState
For 16 months since Amie Huguenard and Timothy Treadwell died in the jaws of a bear at Kaflia Bay on the Katmai Coast, I have been waking up at night with thoughts of this 37-year-old Midwestern woman I never knew.
I can't get free of the words in an e-mail from an old boyfriend, sent months after Huguenard's death.
"Amie had a kind of naivete about her that added a real sweetness to her entire persona,'' Stephen Bunch wrote. "At times it was easy to convince her of things that were not entirely true. We would let her in on these jokes and get a good laugh, especially from her.
"Sometimes I found this quality frustrating because I would watch her 'swallow the hook, line and sinker' in situations where it was obvious what was going on. But I always felt I could trust her because she bestowed the same trust in you unconditionally.''
The last person Amie Huguenard trusted was Treadwell, and it led to her death in the jaws of a bear.
Ever since, she has been billed as Treadwell's "partner" in the tragedy. Early reviews of "Grizzly Man,'' a Treadwell film set to air at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, describe her that way or as the "girlfriend'' following Treadwell on his quest to "leave the confinements of his humanness and bond with the bears.''
That's a novel idea -- and one that is so much bunk.
http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/6029929p-5919386c.html
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Could be -- it was still in an ancient quonset hut. Can't remember the unit designator. I was "stationed" at Red Cloud, but spent most of my time on the Z -- way north and east of Panmunjom as intel liaison.
How about the M4 w/grenade launcher?
And the kind you would really want to take home with you, if your mamma was in need of shock therapy.
Planning on making bear confetti?
"Planning on making bear confetti?"
It's much easier to make stew if you don't have to cut it into little pieces first. :-)
I'm offering top dollar and no questions asked for a good quality MG-34.
Were you getting combat pay in the Z. We were getting in 68-69 but we were getting shot at also.
Yep, and some of the meat would be pre-cooked :-)
That is a German MG34. It would make quick work of a bear.
The problem with "bonding with bears" is that the bear's idea of bonding is to have you for lunch.
The problem with "bonding with bears" is that the bear's idea of bonding is to have you for lunch.
mmm good, mmm good. That's what enviroweenies are, mmm good.
Nonsense..
The 45/70 is quite suitable for grizzly or Alaskan brown..
The only precaution I would consider is using the commonly available "light" loads..
( I wouldn't have one (a rifle) that couldn't handle a full load...)
Comparably, it would be (nearly) as effective as a .50 cal sniper rifle.
Talk about 1870 technology, remember that the 45/70 was used to kill BISON..
And that the .50 cal rifle is ALSO 1870 technology.. developed for the same purpose..
They used belt and drum feed. It was 7.92mm. Let me put it to you this way, these were mounted in bombers and a modified version equipped many a German fighter.
Yeah...but you totally ruin the bear rug.
Nope -- still getting shot at, but no pay. Strange time, really. Around Pamnunjom things were hostile, but a few miles north the troops were trading stuff through the fence. Still shooting at each other, but more as a way to beat boredom.
My last tour was weird in many ways, as is North Korea's internal situation. In the past, they had been robust specimens ready and willing to raise hell and discuss each others' mothers at length -- while trading Marlboros and Kents for NK soju that would make your hair fall out.
During my last tour (my eighth) the NK troops barely acknowledged our presence and always looked like a bunch of starved scarecrows. North Korea will go the way of East Germany soon.
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