.50 Caliber Weapons

[lionfish]

the casull had a brake, i was told it would be "nearly unshootable" without it.

Leo:boom:

 

[landlocked]

FredT once bubbled...


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

Nice story. Too bad you didn't get to do the trip. Around here, grizzly bear country, pistols start at .41 and go up. Anything smaller will just get you into trouble. In fact, anything that doesn't require a lanyard is suspected of being too small.

 

[Inspector#2]

with 1-1/8th oz. slugs. Minimal barrel (legal length 18"). One slug for each shoulder and one for the final shot.
Never had to use it even when baiting my buddies tent with bacon strips.

Dave

 

[AzAtty]

Going into bear infested woods? Forget that outdated Rigby. Get yourself an Alliant TechSystems XM29! If you can't fend off a bear with 5.56mm rounds, 20mm airburst munitions and laser sighting, then you deserve to be messily devoured by the bear.

 

[Lawman]

"can't use .50 against troops" came from. Every airplane
that strafed troops in WW II and Korea used .50 cal.
Nothing illegal about .50s.

Col I had an NCO who used a .50 with a scope in Korea.
They were entrenched and rigged it up by sandbagging
the tripod and shot Chinese sentries a couple of thousand
meters out. They were bored.