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Posted on 10/13/2008 2:36:46 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Wouldn't be the Geneva Convention anyway. It would be the Hague Accords on the Rules of Land Warfare. This was the same venue where hollow point ammo was banned for conventional infantry combat. But I was always taught (when I was in my officer basic course for infantry branch) that this was army policy rather than a matter of international law. Our instructors were the ones offering the wry observations on aiming for the equipment being worn.
Sweet.
Where can we order one?
/johnny
That was an incredibly stupid movie. It would have been ok if they didn’t try to pretend to know anything about firearms.
“I’ll have to stick with my old and common .300 Win mag.”
Wasn’t the military using a 338 Win Mag for sniper use?
You’re job is to kill a guy. What’s humane about that? One of these things hits him, he’s dead real quick.
What’s humane got to do with it? Close quarter getting multiple m-16 rounds tearing you up and dying, or one long-range round taking you out. You can say both aren’t in the ‘humane’ category. You’re killing someone for crying out loud. It’s not torture or cruel and unusual punishment. You’re not dropping a huge vacuum bomb on them and having them hemmorhage their lungs out. It’s a distance thing.
Commentary?
*300 win mag*
Although I didn’t like it at first, I am now partial to my Rem model 700 in 25/06 cal.
I always believed the .300 Winchester Magnum to be an outstanding long-range (over 1000 meters) anti-personnel round.
I don’t know much about .338 Lapua but it seems to have really caught on.
I frankly see no point in the .408 round.
I do think that US snipers need an anti-personnel round more powerful than the 7.62 X 51 round.
Well put. Although there is definitely something to be said for jihadis hemmorhaging their lungs out. I’d like to see that on video actually. No widescreen would be even better.
Did that once. Instructor said "Son, you don't need to kill and butcher those varmits at the same time"
That’s right I forgot it is the HA. The GC is always cited with this legend thought. I’m surprised to see this ubran legend is still making the rounds considering all the videos that are out there showing Apache’s using 25mm against enemy combatants.
But you have to be humane, the GC says so.
So you can’t use deforming bullets, but you can rip someone in half with a 155mm shell splinter.
You can’t use tear gas to force them out of a hole, but you can pump the hole full of napalm.
And turning someone into a gelitanized mist of human protoplasm with a Mk-84 is quite acceptable, but cluster bombs are cruel.
Does that make more sense now?
The elephant could hide the gun in its trunk! And it’s not a mammoth you know. Sometimes I kill me!
Shooting from a standing position, in a row boat, in water....OK???
2-liter bottle silencer used a second time....uhhh...oh, forget it.
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Supposedly alot of studying and research went into this round. Supposedly reacts less with cross winds and air density than the .50 or .338.
Supposedly an EXTREMELY reliable and accurate round even w/ cold round, and even in unfamiliar hands. Tack driver at 2500 yds.
.338 is GREAT round. I'd like to try this though.
They supposedly retrieved the bullet from another mountainside instead of simply shooting the rifle they stole? That bullet somehow remains undamaged?
They went through the trouble for a remote and if they did, why did they need a patsy?
Wouldn’t the remote show a different trajectory?
The garbage about the grassy knoll?
They never checked to see if the rifle they had would work?
What owner pulls the firing pin out of every gun they own before storing it?
Bad movies always do one thing at the end. They don’t know how to end the movie and I call that “painting yourself into a corner”. They make the bad guy so invincible, they forget the hero has to somehow defeat him.
Stupid movie and I own it because someone thought I would like it.
I saw that earlier. Nice pea shooter!
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