Posted on 12/05/2005 4:28:29 PM PST by epow
Ouch!
You'll shoot your eye out!
--excellent!--
The campaign against the Big Fifty continues. The anti-gun writer makes the ridiculous assertion that a single bullet from a .50 BMG can knock a railcar off the tracks. How much research do you suppose that ignorant twit did before writing her hit piece on Barrett rifles?
Anti-gun journalists write for their audience. This will be absorbed as gospel by those whack jobs who have been heretofore unphased by their infrequent confrontations with reality. Intelligence has its limits, but ignorance is infinite.
I guess. I recall the Alaska pipeline looking pretty beefy.
I seem to recall at least one instance of someone punching it with a 460 Weatherby mag or something.
My cousin had some .30-06 armor piercing ammo. Well, that’s what he claimed. Had the black tips on them. Anyhoo, he claimed they’d eat up 3/8 plate. Never tried it though. I think I’ll let someone else blast away at steel plate while I’m doing something elsewhere.
Good article. I wonder why it was moved to chat?
Well you cannot let a "Journalist" let the facts get in the way of Good propanda or Advocacy Journalism. That this dumbell never bothered to check her facts is a surprise? This is more fear mongering by idiots who should be unemployed. That the AP puts this garbage out is not a shock at all. Why they are not called on it is why Blogs are killing the mainstream news. They no longer have a monopoly on the disemination of information in our culture. Everytime they put out another Jason Blair, Mary Mapes fabrication they credibility takes another hit.
Should we be surprised? This is not a low dollar weapon. It is not easily concealable. It is expensive to operate. How many verifiable deaths to civilians can be attributed to this hardware?
I like that line, I'll have to remember it.
"With “Powerful Rifle” Article, Journalist Shoots Self in the Foot(.50 caliber Barrett rifle)"
Dang! That was only one of them durn metaphors!
bttt
Did ya post this thread to chat ?
Or was it moved here......??
"Anyhoo, he claimed they’d eat up 3/8 plate. Never tried it though. I think I’ll let someone else blast away at steel plate"
We have a steel silhouette range, at the range i belong to. Some of the shooters use 30-06 pistols as well as other large calibers.
Some one was using loads too hot or too hard (armor piercing).
We have a lot of 3/8ths plate steel sihouettes with neat holes a little less than half inch in diameter blown through them.
Mmmmmmmm let me think now, uuuuhhh,,,,,,,,, none.
Nope. At least not on purpose, but then I'm not too good at this newfangled computer stuff.
Or was it moved here......??
Dunno. Must be some somethin I done wrong.
Not on any tank built since about 1935. Ma Deuce (.50 cal heavy machine gun) was the second antitank gun in the Army's inventory, thus the name. Most the rest of her assertions are either similarly out of date, or only theoretically possible.
Your cuz speaketh truth. I have shot neat little holes through 3/8" mild steel plate with plain old U.S military surplus 7.62 147 grain FMJ slugs, not even AP stuff. The holes looked like they were blown through with a cutting torch.
I was firing from about 20 yards so those slugs were still moving at a pretty good clip when they hit the steel. I can't say what they would do at a longer range.
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