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hmmmm, never had to caress a trigger like you would a nipple?


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I would have a Barrett M82A1, with a 911A1 as my side arm, and a MP5 for back up.


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I'd have to choose for a rifle a Mosin Nagant 1891 (M91) and for a pistol a M1911A1 . My dad owns a M91 and I just love shooting it. It is a bit heavy though.
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Hmmm, having to haul a M82A around for any distances in the hopes of a dinosaur attack?


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if i had to pick i would half to say m4 with the m203grenade launcher
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Well As I actually own one , i will go with my M249 SAW. my baby.

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Truck mounted Quad 50's. I hate the neighbors dog anyway.


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If yer gonna do it, do it up right!


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I wouldnt mind owning a G36 or M14, or an Hk53


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Good luck buying anything from HK other than a hand gun. I hear you can get ahold of HK416's but they are like 5-6K and you can only buy the full auto variant as they dont make a semi auto civilian variant, the MSG90 and HK91's are even harder to find and if you do they are as expensive as a barret M82, and I would personally rather have a .5 cal sniper rifle than a .308 sniper rifle even if it is an HK. HK is really shooting themselves in the foot by not opening up a shop in the US to produce these exotic rifles, its almost as if there goal is not to make money, Oh well PTR-91 picked up the HK tooling for the HK91 so now you can buy PTR-91's that are the same thing as an HK91 the only problem is they come with a 18" barrel and to get anything longer requires a special made duplication of the 24" MSG90 barrel and the TIC for that barrel is around 1K, HK will not even sell you replacement barrels for the MSG90 so if you somehow have authentic HK weapons think twice about actually shooting them because you cant get the parts for them. Its actually the fault of HK themselves and the ATF 2005 importation ban for exotic rifle parts (sort of back door gun control, I have been learning thats how our government works, the ATF the military its all a joke). Any HK weapon you find in the US there is about a 300% mark up on them making them not even really worth the money, if you ever did find an acutal HK MSG90 barrel it would probably run you about 2K when HK sells them to the magic lepercauns under the sea for 700$ (who knows who the hell they actually sell there guns to other than the german army who never really use them or some special forces capt with a magic purchase order number. So yes a G36/416 would be nice to get but im not going to pay 6K for it.
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And actually you cant even buy the G36 only the 416. You can get a Colt 1020 or M5 which is Colts answer to the 416, HK cryed patent infringemnt blah blah blah, I dont have any sympathy for HK, they should not have a right to any of there patents if they are not going to sell there weapons to anyone but the military
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What got your panties in a wad gunny, nothing in my rant had anything to do with my standard montra. I did go out and shoot my PTR-91 today and it was pretty fun, I was trying to hit a 400 yd target with wolf ammo and significant mirage effect along with wind so needless to say I could not even hit the paper. I still need to get a bipod with a swivel and buy better ammo and read up on how to compensate for things like that I may need to get a more powerfull scope as well with laser ranger finding and range markers built into the scope cross hairs thoes scopes are like 1K but at least I know with optics I wont be extorted like with an MSG90 barrel.
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hmmmm, it was due to your responses to folks seeking information regarding a family member. You show in your responses to folks that are worried sick about loosing a child, you answer without feeling or remorse over your words or the impact they might have.

Your typical rant has no place when responding to folks that are only seeking reassurances or some type of direction from us.

You have no doubt heard of the saying 'SUPPORT The TROOPS'? Well to us it goes beyond only supporting the troops, it encompasses thier families as well.

And by the way, if you can't hit paper at 400 yards with iron sights, then a scope isn't going to get you on paper at 400 yards. You simply don't know how to compensate for windage. Learn that before you spend money on a scope, as the same principles apply. You may decide you don't really need a scope at all.


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What does that have to do with what kind of gun I would own. What did I say about troops and their familys? I will check some other posts but as of now im not tracking.
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Originally posted by Aufklarer:
I also don't understand the parody of having a silenced weapon. A silencer just costs money, and unless you're in Special Ops, you most likely won't need it.

I might be wrong though.

BTW, Eric, if you're a hitman, I'll pay you to kill rppearso (even though I put him on my ignore list, his posts waste bandwidth on this site.)


Even Special Ops don't use it that often.

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I'll have to go with my current new weapon, my M4, my baby


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I like that M28 with the 'Davy Crockett'
shell (as found under typhoon's sonic boom link)

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On 17 July 1962, a caravan of scientists, dignitaries and VIPs such as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy gathered in Nevada to witness an historic event. They had come to observe the "Little Feller I" test shot, the final phase of Operation Sunbeam. The main attraction was a secret device bolted to the roof of an armored personnel carrier, a contraption called The Davy Crockett. |Read More|


Named after the famous American folk hero, this defense apparatus was based on the tried-and-true recoilless rifle, a launcher similar to the shoulder-fired tubes used in the Second World War. Such weapons were designed to counteract much of their recoil by routing some expanding gas out the rear end, thereby producing forward thrust at the same moment that the projectile pushes the gun backwards. But the Davy Crockett Weapon System did improve on the concept in one important way: it paired this dead-simple launch device with a tiny fission bomb, making it the most convenient nuclear bomb delivery system ever developed.

As the threat of Soviet invasion loomed over Europe, US Army officials decided they needed a tool for halting– or at least delaying– the endless columns of troops and tanks which might one day pour out of East Germany and the USSR. The task fell to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, where nuclear scientists succeeded in shoehorning an atomic bomb into an extremely small package. The W-54 warhead was then mated with a reliable delivery system, and the resulting weapons were handed over to the Atomic Battle Group for policing the border between East and West Germany.

The Davy Crockett shell weighed about seventy-six pounds, and it vaguely resembled a watermelon with fins. At thirty-one inches long and eleven inches in diameter, the projectile was too large to fit inside the gun, so it perched on the top while an attached rod was inserted into the barrel. The shell could be fired from a four-inch-wide recoilless rifle which could lob the bomb a little over a mile, or a larger six-inch-wide version which could heave it up to two and a half miles. The launchers were mounted to jeeps and personnel carriers, and each was operated by a three-man atomic squad. The Davy Crockett was also designed to detach from its vehicle, allowing the teams to relocate on foot and dispatch their miniature mutually-assured-destruction from a handy tripod mount.

The four-inch M28 Launcher
The Atomic Battle Group was charged with the protection of Europe between 1961 and 1971, and during those ten years 2,100 of the Davy Crockett Weapons Systems were deployed. In the event of a Soviet invasion, these elite squads were trained to deploy themselves in the path of the advancing formations. Once in position, a flurry of mathematics would provide the trajectory and flight time to the targets, and these data would be used to configure the launchers for maximum carnage. A test shot with the integrated 37mm spotting gun would verify the operators' angle and timing calculations. The three men would then unpack a shell from its carrying case, set the timer knob to detonate the warhead roughly twenty feet above the target, and dial in their preferred yield of ten or twenty tons.

Upon receiving the order to fire, Davy Crockett would leap from its perch with a bang and a cloud of smoke, racing through sky in a long arc to intercept the advancing enemy. The rudimentary atomic bomb did not include an abort feature, so Davy Crockett was committed to destruction once it was en route. Even with the help of the spotter gun and rifled barrel, both of the Davy Crockett launcher designs were somewhat sloppy in their accuracy, so the detonation was likely to be several hundred feet from the target. Moreover, the shells' relatively small yield didn't produce a great deal of blast damage even at the highest setting. But the weapon's tendency to spew radiation over the battlefield made up for its shortcomings as an explosive.

Any person within a quarter-mile radius of the Davy Crockett explosion would face almost certain death. Those within the first 500 feet would be exposed to enough radiation to kill within minutes or hours, even with the protection of tank armor. People at about 1,000 feet from the blast would experience temporary fatigue and nausea which would then pass, but this misleading "walking ghost" condition leads to a painful death after a few days of apparent well-being.

Those beyond a quarter-mile would have better chances of survival, though many would require extensive medical care, and perhaps never fully recover from their injuries. Those lucky enough to be more than one-third of a mile from ground zero would be spared most of the harmful effects, but the mutations in their DNA would give them an increased risk of cancer later in life.

The Davy Crockett's timer allowed a minimum shot distance of about 1,000 feet, but such inept use of the weapon would certainly result in the deaths of the firing team. In most cases, the approaching Soviets would be at least one mile away, leaving the Atomic Battle Group personnel outside of the hazard zone. Even if the launcher's lack of accuracy resulted in relatively few enemy casualties, the radioactivity from the hail of fission bombs would render a large swath of earth uninhabitable for about 48 hours, allowing time for American and NATO forces to mobilize.

Variations of the W-54 warhead found a few other niches during the Cold War, including the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) which could be simply dropped off at a target and set to explode with a timer. A more powerful 250 ton variant was also used on the AIM-26 Falcon, a guided air-to-air missile. Fortunately these ultra-portable casualty dispensers were never used outside of the Nevada desert.

In addition to being the smallest nuclear device ever developed by the United States, the Davy Crockett also has the distinction of being the last atomic device tested by the US in the open atmosphere. The 1962 test shot at the Nevada Proving Grounds confirmed the effectiveness of the design, and the device's tiny form factor made it a real crowd-pleaser– or a crowd killer, depending on one's point of view. With the destructive power of twenty tons of TNT squeezed into a watermelon-sized package, it's hard to outperform the Davy Crockett in terms of convenient annihilation.

Source: damninteresting.com



http://sonicbomb.com/modules.p...ode=&order=0&thold=0

I'd thought I found one down at chingbrothers surplus...but it was inert (I think)

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Like I said before reach out and touch some one.




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i would take one of these. cuz when the shit hits the fan...............
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