Author Topic: So, whats your arsenal? (Read 4343 times)

Brenjen · « **Reply #75 on:** May 20, 2006, 07:18:13 PM »

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animal guts sound like a good method, but i dont fancy butchering a couple of bunny rabbits just for thier stringy bits, or at the most a small meal.

That'd be sinew lambfries, not guts. And you can get it without slaughtering anything yourself, but if you'd like to go out and kill a few hundred bunnies be my guest. I would just go to a stockyard & see if they would sell a bit.

I just thought since you went through all that trouble making it, you might want to make it more historically accurate & more powerful at the same time.

More Power....argh - argh - argh.

Hangtime · « **Reply #76 on:** May 20, 2006, 10:09:35 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
so bows were never banned in england? Must be thinking of robin hood or something... Maybe that Swiss guy.....

lazs

LOL.. Laz, for about 300 years nearly every single able-bodied subject in the kingdom was an exceptionaly well trained archer. Those with slightly higher birth status received training in basic weapons skills.. sword, pike or cavalry. But every serf was an archer.. mandated by law. ..and their expertiese with the english longbow was legendary. A longbow shot at 200 yards could penetrate the heavy armour of the day and fell a knight with ease.. at 100 yards a shot could penetrate 6" of oak plank or even plate armor.. heavy knight cavalry charges at English Longbowmen was suicide. It was the era's 'machine gun', 'sniper rifle' and 'artillery' all rolled into one.

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The average English Military Archer could fire 12 to 15 arrows per minute and hit a man-sized target at a minimum of 200 yards. The maximum range was about 400 yards with flight arrows. An archer could not even consider himself skilled at his art if he could not shoot 10 arrows a minute.

Needless to say, the English kings did indeed fear their own archers.. the Magna Carta being presented to the king by nobles backed by Archers... establishing the precedent of obtaining from government certain guarantees of rights, upon pain of rebellion by an aggrieved and armed populace.

Dago · « **Reply #77 on:** May 20, 2006, 10:30:03 PM »

I happen to be one of the best shots with a rubber band you will ever see.

Edbert1 · « **Reply #78 on:** May 20, 2006, 11:01:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
... establishing the precedent of obtaining from government certain guarantees of rights, upon pain of rebellion by an aggrieved and armed populace.

That sounds very familiar, also why the British government has little to worry about now and why ours envies them.

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #79 on:** May 20, 2006, 11:02:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Brenjen
That'd be sinew lambfries, not guts. And you can get it without slaughtering anything yourself, but if you'd like to go out and kill a few hundred bunnies be my guest. I would just go to a stockyard & see if they would sell a bit.

I just thought since you went through all that trouble making it, you might want to make it more historically accurate & more powerful at the same time.

More Power....argh - argh - argh.

thank you for the sugestion, i was peviously aware of the use of sinews and other natural materials but had never decided to employ such methods.

whats lambfries?

Brenjen · « **Reply #80 on:** May 20, 2006, 11:08:48 PM »

It was my attempt to be a S.A. as your response seemed also to be an attempt at same - my apologies.

Lambfries are um, fried testicles.

Hangtime · « **Reply #81 on:** May 20, 2006, 11:50:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Edbert1
That sounds very familiar, also why the British government has little to worry about now and why ours envies them.

The parallels are hauntingly familiar... the archer/farmers of the era were expert marksmen, capable of penetrating the best armor of the period 12 times a minute from 100+ yards out.

hehehhehhehhe.. boggles the mind what the diane finsteins of the 1200's would think about a buncha pissed off welsh farmers with bows.

benytree · « **Reply #82 on:** May 21, 2006, 12:00:28 AM »

red ryder BB gun. thats my only weapon...besides my bow...and maybe my brothers paintball gun...and his pellet gun...dotdotdot...dotdotdotdo t....

Angus · « **Reply #83 on:** May 21, 2006, 03:44:32 AM »

I am known as a non-pro-guns from many a debate.
But, I must Confess:
Brno .22 handgun (rifled, 1-shot with a good sight, - for slaughtering)
(Even the short cartridges drop a lamb, the long ones will drop a bull)
Marlin .22 magnum rifle, bolt action 7 bullet mag, 4xscope (For slaughtering big bulls and sniping geese and seagulls. Doesn't need to be much bigger for 4x scope Record shot is a goose through the heart at 150 metres)
Baikal 12 gauge single shot 2 3/4" Shotgun for killing the bastiges if they fly of the ground

(Dropped gulls by the hundreds with this one. Since it is non automatic and well narrow in the barrel, a 42.5 G BB shot will break a gull's wing at quite high altitude. Then they spin to the ground like a wingless aircraft in AH

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I envy those who have a Tommygun, awww, - but I wouldn't have any use for it. Always wanted a nice handgun as well, but I'm against them so...

flakbait · « **Reply #84 on:** May 21, 2006, 04:50:47 AM »

Sadly, no modern toys here... just old soot shooters!

1847 Walker Colt .44 cap n' ball
Bought this because it packs enough punch to dent just about anything. Though it does go through powder like mad if I get a little POWER crazy. 55-grain charges can make a pound of powder disappear quick!

A pair of 1851 Colt Navy .36 cap n' ball
Just for plinking. Both are accurate, neither eats powder, and punching cards ala John W. Hardin is great fun!

Percussion Hawken .50 front-stuffer
A virtual twin to the first BP weapon I ever fired. Not terribly accurate (minute of garbage can at 100 yards) and like the Walker it'll gobble up powder, but still a kick to shoot. At night it'll throw sparks and flame a good two foot from the muzzle.

Flintlock Kan-Tuck-Eee .50 front-stuffer
Bought it from a friend who mistakenly ordered a flint model instead of a cap. Even worse than the Hawken with powder consumption, but a LOT more fun to shoot! Scares the crap out of people who aren't used to having something blow up mere inches from their face! LOL The sound, though... oh my, my, my! Nothing quite brings it back like the "Cla..PAH!" of a rock-scraper going off.

Had my firearms cherry popped on an ancient Marlin .22LR auto vs. milk jugs and soda cans. Two years later my uncle introduced me to the wonderful stench of blackpowder smoke. Been hooked ever since! Especially with modern ammo, at least locally, going for almost a buck and a half per shot. With BP, I spend about .20 cents a shot. And it SMELLS BETTER!

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Flakbait [Delta6]

Furball · « **Reply #85 on:** May 21, 2006, 06:03:26 AM »

Excel1 · « **Reply #86 on:** May 21, 2006, 06:28:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Dago
I happen to be one of the best shots with a rubber band you will ever see.

I'm not bad with a rubber band either. They come in handy for breaking the
family cat's concertration in stare-down contests.

Excel

Dago · « **Reply #87 on:** May 21, 2006, 07:57:17 AM »

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #88 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:28:41 AM »

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Originally posted by Brenjen
It was my attempt to be a S.A. as your response seemed also to be an attempt at same - my apologies.

Lambfries are um, fried testicles.

im definitely lost, you have no appologies to make to me.

mmmmm testicles.

lazs2 · « **Reply #89 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:40:41 AM »

angus... no problem.. most people who want to ban things don't want the bans to apply to them. They have a "real need" usually. and.... unlike everyone else....

They can be trusted.

lazs