From the link above. Many more photos there.
Posted on 02/23/2011 8:10:07 PM PST by marktwain
2X6 would be great. Leave it on 2X and have the higher power for calm water or ashore.
No, aimed, as accurate as possible fire from accurate rifles with low power optics will totally each an AK’s “allah-fire” mode.
Contrary to common jihadist belief, allah does NOT steer bullets toward infidels. I’m glad they believe it, though.
No “gun exchange” is needed. The common practice is to buy an AK or an Enfield or whatever at a bazzaar in Yemen going up the Red Sea to Egypt. Then before arriving home in Australia a year or two later, you toss it overboard. Or not.
Not too many southbounds to the Red Sea: most folks circumnavigating the other way around head from Brazil or the Canaries to South Africa, then to the Indian Ocean. But I imagine guns can be picked up in the eastern Med too. Probably not like the $25 Kalashnikovs in Yemen though.
Thanks. Wierd knowledge like this makes me a better author as well. I can’t count the books with novelists creating characters who shoot 20X sniper rifles from small craft like they were on the bench at the range. It just makes me think these writers don’t know CRAP about anything else outside of my area knowledge. Thumb safeties on Glocks, two-inch “silencers” on magnum revolvers etc.
You're kidding, right?
India does NOT tolerate guns in the hands of it's citizens. OR it's police it seems. Of course I refer to the Mumbai terrorist attacks (when was the last time that sort of terror attack happened in Chicago, NY or MIAMI? I live in Miami and feel far safer with my CCW permit and my 45 than I would anywhere overseas, especially India). In those attacks the Indian police were so poorly armed and so COWARDLY that they ran and hid amongst the unarmed victims all around them rather than to try and engage and destroy the terrorist threat. Don't tell me India does not tolerate pirates or criminals. The entire subcontinent just barely clawed it's way out of being third world in status with the technological revolution we threw their way with NAFTA & GATT allowing our companies to do cheaper business on their soil than they can do on our soil. Criminy, they still spit on the "untouchables" and believe washing in fresh cow pee is a sign of good fortune!
I remember reading a Jack London story about a sharpshooter on a schooner in the South Pacific that got attacked by about a thousand “islanders” while anchored in a harbor and the rifleman sat up in the whatever up in the mast picking them off until his gun got to hot to hold.
Something like that. The story stuck in my mind.
We referred to that as adjusted point of aim... very valuable skill to hone. Here on my sea of wheat and cattle we routinely will take snap shots at yotes and sod poodles well over a 1000 yards and adjust POA versus any correction to optics. Not enough time to “dial it in”....yotes, sod poodles, pirates, terrorists...same same cept sod poodles and yotes have ethics.
Never did any shooting on open ocean / blue water like you describe. Had to be tough.
Hope yer well......Stay safe !
The bungie cords. Yes that’s it. I was racking my brain trying to think where I’ve seen something like that.
But I won’t have to worry about hiding one. Being land locked, not necessarily a landlubber, and in poor financial straights; I’m not likely to be equipping an ocean going vessel of any size, any time soon. Let alone dropping the Benjamin’s for a Barrett.
It was Just a mental exercise on how to layer defenses in the unlikely event that I win the lottery and decide to take to the sea.
Thanks for the input.
Yeee-haww!
I'll take a dozen.
Plenty of customers do. Throw in an RPD if you buy 20.
Check out this boat, and imagine it re-converted as an anti-piracy Q-ship. It was converted from a 174’ fishing vessel that used to be on “The Deadliest Catch.” It carries a 35’ speedboat, a helo and an airplane.
Keep the fishing vessel profile to act as pirate bait, to lure them into range. Then pick them off with style, with your hidden Bofors and Otto-Maleras.
From the link above. Many more photos there.
That’s frick’n sweet!
I recall back in the late 80’s early 90’, living in FLA and having a subscription to “Motoboating & Sailing”; and article about a similar setup. A converted oil rig supply ship, with a V cut out of the stern to accommodate a, IIRC, 45’~55’ sport fish.
The mothship was set up for world cruising. Two full walk in fridge/freezer combos, and a half dozen or so staterooms. Stocedk to the gills with provisions.
The mothship was called “Madam” and the sport fish was “Hooker”.
This is a similar setup, but the owner is not so much into fishing. Still a sweet setup.
I remember that. It was a way for a rich sportfisherman to get a big sportfish like a Bertram 40 to the great fishing areas of the world.
A lot cheaper to fly there and charter, but it was his dime.
I didn’t see ONE cup holder....?!?!?
....:o)
That is a nice boat !
Yea, but if you like the sea, and want to go fishing, wherever, flying isn’t gonna cut it. And like you said, it was his dime.
And much smarter than the typical James Bond Italian-styled sleek megayacht.
SuRi’s profile at anchor says “working vessel” or “research vessel.”
What it doesn’t say is, “Private yacht, with more gold and other valuables aboard than your entire nation’s GNP.”
Just plain old cool. ;-)
8 or 12 cylinder? The "garage" is a nice touch.
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