.50 Caliber Weapons

[Butch103]

........what kinda kick does something like that have. (please bear in mind I am not a hunter or shooter)....Having shot smaller calibre rifles, I would think that a sniper rifle with that calibre must pack a mean wallop.....(both ends )

 

[cadet diver]

We had a briefing on this, and basicly the lawyers told us if the army gives it to you, you can use it. They definately give you .50 cals and Mark 19s, so yes you can use them.

 

[WreckWriter]

Uniforms are equipment. BANG!

WW

 

[scuberd]

WreckWriter once bubbled...
Uniforms are equipment. BANG!

WW

I was targeting the badge on the front of their shirt I swear, is it my fault the round penetrated the target and hit the man behind it???

 

[colonelchuck]

We used a stand .50 cal HB M2 machine gun set up to fire single shot as a "sniper" weapon. It was on top of a tower with a starlight scope zeroed at about 200 meters. Not sure it ever killed anybody, but it sure scared the heck out of folks running around at night.

 

[bwerb]

check this little baby out!

deadly weapon

Nice huh?

Brian

 

[FredT]

Mo2vation once bubbled...

Hunting elephants with a handgun, I guess.

That would come in handy.

Several years ago I was "threatened" with a work assignment in western AK north of the Aleutians. The job would have involved about a month in the woods siting headland based marine weather stations. The plan was to have the USCG drop me by choper on headlands, then give me a coule days to find a suitable site with good foundations and access for a solar power station. Following that the chopper would pick me up and move me to the next headland. This was a solo trip into the heart of brown bear country, sharing the woods with bears that may have NEVER seen people. USCG did a regular patrol along the coast at that time about once every 3 days, and I was to just "hop a ride" from point to point along the coast.

The trip died when I asked the GS-15 who was going to be signing the 4473 for the .416 Rigby drilling I intended to carry. At the height of the Klintoon anti-gun crusade any agencies firearm purchases took an act of god and congress, and he didn't have to stones to step up to the plate and sign it. Brown Bears consider anything that walks, crawls or swims as lunch, and I had no intention of letting a rifle's "failure to feed" to enable a bear to feed on me.

FT

 

[lionfish]

I asked the salesman i was there with, what would he do if we broke down and a bear came around?

He reached under the seat and handed me a .454 casull revolver, looked a lot like a ruger but it was a custom pistol.
took out one of the cartridges and compared it to a 44 mag, it was about the size of a .50 pistol round but was longer than the 44.

looked like it would do the trick.

Leo

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[IndyScott]

You guys are starting to scare me..but then Some times i scare my self...LOL


Scott =-)

 

[Bob3]

.....what kinda kick does something like that have

There's a muzzle brake that handles the recoil, some rifles fake you out & seem to travel foreward after fired.

How 'bout a .50 cal BMG fish popper?
http://www.beco-products.com/images/product/MVC-230X.JPG