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Offline SKYGUNS

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QUESTION
« on: April 09, 2009, 08:53:49 PM »
were the .50 cal guns on the bombers of WWII (B25) aircraft detachable by crew in less than 1 minute, did they require tools or what?

If yes, then the last battle scene in pearl harbor was sweet retarded, using .45s against Japanese patrols being pinned when you could just pull a .50 out of the reasonably in tach plane and bunker down. while the locals arrive.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2009, 09:03:28 PM »
Quote from: SKYGUNS on April 09, 2009, 08:53:49 PM
... the last battle scene in pearl harbor was sweet retarded, using .45s against Japanese patrols being pinned ...

You mean like the rest of the movie?
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2009, 09:08:20 PM »
Pearl harbor movie was one of the worst ones ever

I couldnt watch 1 mniute of it without getting po'd
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2009, 09:17:13 PM »
it is a horrible movie but this would have to be one of the worst part. Anyone have a answer to my question?
I don't know about you guys but my natural instinct would be to grab a .50 outta the plane, better than a 1911 colt.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2009, 09:20:04 PM »
Quote from: SKYGUNS on April 09, 2009, 09:17:13 PM
it is a horrible movie but this would have to be one of the worst part. Anyone have a answer to my question?
I don't know about you guys but my natural instinct would be to grab a .50 outta the plane, better than a 1911 colt.

You gonna fire that .50 from the shoulder or hip, Rambo? It would be useless without the proper mount.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2009, 09:26:22 PM »
Quote from: Rollins on April 09, 2009, 09:20:04 PM
You gonna fire that .50 from the shoulder or hip, Rambo? It would be useless without the proper mount.
I'm sure you could use the aircraft rubble as a mount, chances are its the only time that gun will fire before being ditched. Still better than a colt.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2009, 09:27:02 PM »
Quote from: Rollins on April 09, 2009, 09:20:04 PM
You gonna fire that .50 from the shoulder or hip, Rambo? It would be useless without the proper mount.

If my family lore is to be believed, my Great Uncle Don did just that. Got a bronze star in Europe in WWII as a B-17 pilot when his plane went down (Probably in France, near the coast). His crew was injured though conscious (Some of them), and the Krauts (Or general bad guys) were moving on the crash site. He dismounted (? Some say he dismounted, others say he left it on the plane and shot from the position) one of the .50s and used it to defend the crash site from enemies until a rescue could be mounted. Unfortunately, the man is dead, and no one in my family bothered remembering any more detail, so I cannot give a date, a year, anything. I've tried finding out what unit he was with, but no luck. I've seen several pictures of him in full flight gear, but nothing I can get any info from.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2009, 09:30:15 PM »
Quote from: SKYGUNS on April 09, 2009, 09:26:22 PM
I'm sure you could use the aircraft rubble as a mount, chances are its the only time that gun will fire before being ditched. Still better than a colt.

You've obviously never fired a Ma Deuce. The tripod barely hold it down- unless its bolted to something big and heavy, the recoil is either going to slam it straight back into the firer or make the muzzle jump several feet in any given direction as soon as its fired.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2009, 09:32:47 PM »
Quote from: Treize69 on April 09, 2009, 09:30:15 PM
You've obviously never fired a Ma Deuce. The tripod barely hold it down- unless its bolted to something big and heavy, the recoil is either going to slam it straight back into the firer or make the muzzle jump several feet in any given direction as soon as its fired.

My thoughts exactly. M2 sometimes best thought of as a controlled small nuke...
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2009, 09:32:58 PM »
If you ever fired a m2?  It's not a BB gun.
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Offline Motherland

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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2009, 10:36:03 PM »
Not to mention that the thing weighs over 80 pounds.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2009, 05:22:22 AM »
Yeah, it didn't really seem like they had the time to dismount the .50, get a stand prepared for it, then be ready to fire it, I think him shooting his side arm seems more realistic to me, although he did seem to have a few to many shots outta that pistol without ever reloading.
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Re: QUESTION
« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2009, 05:43:15 AM »
Quote from: Motherland on April 09, 2009, 10:36:03 PM
Not to mention that the thing weighs over 80 pounds.
84 pounds, 144 pounds with tripod. not including ammo.
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