Author Topic: Large caliber rifle of choice (Read 516 times)

DiabloTX · « **Reply #15 on:** June 04, 2006, 03:55:47 AM »

Fashion never was your strong point, eh Hang?

john9001 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 04, 2006, 10:29:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Leslie
For true shooting relaxation, I prefer black powder. Just bought one of these replicas recently and took it to the range the other day. Performs well at 100 yards and is pretty accurate. With this rifle there are numerous accutrouments that must be acquired, such as cleaning stuff and bullet molds to pour your own lead, etc... You can buy pre-molded bullets such as Minies, but "Real" (rifling engraved at loading) bullets work best for me. Lyman makes an aluminum mold, .575 I think, but it's the one for the .577 caliber and is standard for all the .58 cal rilfes. These load faster than the patched ball and afford more shots before having to clean fouling buildup, and are accurate enough to hit a 12" paper plate target at 100 yards,

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i have heard old auto wheel weights are a good alloy for making bullets and can be picked up cheap or for free. When i worked in a garage we had buckets of them laying around.

CavemanJ · « **Reply #17 on:** June 04, 2006, 11:31:11 AM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime

Why mess around? Make your presence felt.. reach out and touch... be lord of all you survey... give diane fienstien apolexy.

The BMG .50

"Bigger, Better Holes, and Deeper; Too!"

All reasons why I want a .416 Barret.

Hangtime · « **Reply #18 on:** June 04, 2006, 11:47:09 AM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Fashion never was your strong point, eh Hang?

Why, no.... I take it yer with the fashion police.

heheheheeh

DiabloTX · « **Reply #19 on:** June 04, 2006, 01:02:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
Why, no.... I take it yer with the fashion police.

heheheheeh

No I try look "ok" before a pic rather than have the "just got out of bed and this shirt was closest on the floor" look.

Hehe.

Neubob · « **Reply #20 on:** June 04, 2006, 01:11:44 PM »

I Checked out heretik's suggestion of the .408 Cheytak. According to one of the sites I saw, the Cheytak can maintain supersonic velocity past 2000 yards, with more energy than the .50 bmg past something like 1700.

Now, granted, these sorts of stats will never play a role in any application I might be able to come up with, but it's interesting.

Hangtime · « **Reply #21 on:** June 04, 2006, 01:12:21 PM »

ah! Well... that may be why the guy blurred his face; but i suspect it was because he was holding a rifle outlawed by feinstein & co. in his particular local.

using a static shot of a BMG .50 doesn't really do it justice... you get a better idea of sale and mass when you see one being held.

kinda like this shot:

and no, that ain't me either.

BGBMAW · « **Reply #22 on:** June 04, 2006, 07:12:41 PM »

talk about free float barrel..,,funnnnnnnn

Debonair · « **Reply #23 on:** June 04, 2006, 07:15:12 PM »

midgets with 0.22s!

DiabloTX · « **Reply #24 on:** June 04, 2006, 07:39:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
but i suspect it was because he was holding a rifle outlawed by feinstein & co. in his particular local.

Golfer · « **Reply #25 on:** June 04, 2006, 11:21:30 PM »

Burt from Tremors on Overkill:
"When you need it and don't have it...you sing a different tune"

DiabloTX · « **Reply #26 on:** June 04, 2006, 11:38:56 PM »

Harry Callahan: Not bad.

Horace King: Not bad, my ass! You've got to strain the remains for the fingerprints.

Harry Callahan: Well, this is the .44 Magnum Auto-Mag and it hold a 300-grain cartridge. And, if properly used, it can remove the fingerprints.

Hangtime: Oh yeah? Move aside little boy. This here's the BMG .50 and when it's used it doesn't leave any evidence for DNA extraction.