Posted on 11/25/2005 10:02:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
Some of the women actors actually just buy the ammo. ;-)
While I have never gone Elk hunting, from what I have seen on some TV shows, those animals are big and these guys take shots at some extreme distances.
It seems that moose are also very large, but can be shot at closer distances.
If I ever were to go hunt water buffalo I think I would want one, especially if being charged. They appear to have skulls like boulders.
Try www.sportsmansguide.com They had belted 50 BMG for around $110 for a box of 100 rds.
There are some, carbine versions even 42" long, that are single shot for around $2200.
What an idiot.
Definitely. But then they are hoplophobes, so what do expect?
Yeh, but some manufactures are coming out with them in a different claiber, only the .50 BMG was banned, one slightly larger in bore diameter. :)
They all have very large and effective muzzle brakes. Some of them modeled after those on Soviet Artillery pieces. There have even been at least a couple of handgun versions, the Maadi-Griffin and the Thunder .50.
I'll bet I could come up with a computerized mount that would do the job. Still couldn't get a real high Pk, but maybe enough.
Of course anyone with half a brain, letting out most of the terrorists, would go after aircraft stoped in traffic on the taxiway, or coming around to the active just before takeoff. Of course you could do just as well, better really, with a large game hunting rifle, in terms of punching holes in fuel tanks, especially the little feeder tanks by each engine, or punching a hole in the hot section of a spinning turbine, the latter would have "interesting" secondary effects I'm sure.
AFAIK, all the big .50s depend only on a muzzle brake. These don't spread out the recoil impluse, they counter or balance it by directing some of the propellant gases rearward.
Actually they call in an Abrams Main Battle Tank, or a Bradley with TOW launchers, or a Humvee with a Tow launcher. Or an Apache with HellFire missiles and a 25 mm chain gun, an A-10 with a 30 mm Gatling cannon, Maverick missiles or laser guided bombs. Or in a pinch they call for a Harrier, Falcon, Hornet, Bombcat, or Strike Eagle to come "plink" the tank with a laser guided bomb (500, 1000 or 2000 pound varieties)
Even against Hinds. You shoot the pilot, by the time the copilot can take it, it's in pieces on the side of a mountain.
Bu!!sh!t!!! They're not easy to find, at least not in the gunshops I go to, and they're expensive as hell, like five to seven times what a handgun costs.
This single quote should disqualify any reporter from ever quoting Tom Diaz again. Ever.
................Too many folks know what the 50BMG Cartridge will and won't do. Your lies don't get a pass from all the GI's, past, present or future. Doom on ya for lying "Joe & Rose"...........ya'll remind me of other breeders of lies, losers and liars.
Not necessarily. The TC sticking his head out of the turret generally makes an easy target, and would no doubt have negative effect on the outcome of a shoot out, not to mention the crews moral.
But not even the best shot in the world can hit a moving tarket the size of a man at a mile.
Not quite. It applied to a double barreled break action sawed off shotgun, a Stevens, IIRC. Not a 18" (M 1897) or 20" (M 12) barrel (most were longer) pump shotgun with bayonet lug and bayonet.
Furthermore if you read the decision closely, you'll see that that at most the court indicated that it was not within judicial notice that such a weapon (IE. Stevens break action short double barreled shotgun) "was any part of the ordinary military equipment" or that is use or possession could "contribute to the common defense" and that the "The cause will be remanded for further proceedings. Those further proceedings would have undoubted found many instances of the uses of double barreled short shotguns for military uses, in the Spanish American War for instance, perhaps even in the Banana Wars, then concluding in Central America. Unfortunately such proceedings were never held. The core of the conclusion/ruling of the court is below (less the "further proceedings ruling):
In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense.
Clearly implying that if such a weapon were shown to be "part of the ordinary military equipment" and/or that it's "use or possession could contribute to the common defense", it's keeping and bearing, by individuals, is protected by the second amendment. Kinda throws the machine gun portions of the NFA, the various state Assault Weapons Bans, the California .50 cal ban, and even handgun bans (Military M9 9 mm Beretta Pistol (concealable) and the H&K USP 45 caliber pistol) right into a three cornered hat, doesn't it?
Yeah, but a look at the video linked at #58, you'll see more than just a little "ruined meat". Limbs and other appendages flying everywhere, at some fairly long ranges too.
If I ever were to go hunt water buffalo I think I would want one, especially if being charged. They appear to have skulls like boulders.
Now there you have a point. If the thing is coming with blood in it's eye, you want as much gun as possible to carry into the field. But that's self defense, not hunting.
Awesome and sickening at the same time.
Now I *know* I want one.
To Mr. Barrett, Well done. Free enterprise, an agile mind and perserverance brought this man success. The fact that the Armed services can use his expertise is fine with me. As far as civilian use, I think that this weapon should fall under the 1934 gun control act. If you don't understand look it up.
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