Posted on 12/14/2008 8:40:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I think I paid $180 for the two. Both fine shooters
“Shooting from a yacht is similar to shooting from the roof of an SUV, while driving across rutted fields. It has NOTHING to do with range shooting. You cannot get a "rest." You can only shoot offhand, while your boat is moving in several directions at once.”Modify the CROWS and add gyro stabilization.
The eastern Caribbean is not too bad and generally safe but Venezuela, since Chavez, is a mess and has become very dangerous. You used to stay about 10 NM off the coast, catching the wind and curent, going down to Isla Margurita and hug the coast and hope you got some catabaric winds off the mountains of eastern Venezuela going back to Trinidad. (with your yacht full of Cchilean wine and Venezuelan rum!) Those days are gone, at least for a while.
Bruno had spent some time in Trinidad visiting and I think he pulled his boat and did a bottom job at Peakes. I met him a few times. He seemed like a nice guy and his killing shocked the yachting community.
A weapon is a big problem to deal with in the eastern Caribbean but you MUST go armed when you are near the coast of Venezuela or travel in a flotilla, a BIG flotilla.
I recall quite a few years ago reading a story somewhere of some poor bastard who had to spend a lot more time in St. Kitts than he had planned for violating this.
Also very good+ surplus Egyptian Ljungmann rifles in 7.92mm were available cheap. 10 shots. They wouldn't get closer to you than 500 yards without hurting.
I'm guessing they can afford it.
I dunno about that.
The CROWS is designed to mount on hummers, etc.
A 30+ foot boat should be able to handle it fine.
You can stick a 500# weight on top of a heavy duty vehicle, no problem. Boats are another story. Plant 500 extra # on deck, big problem. (Unless you stay on flat water, but what good is that?)
The bargain of a lifetime, weighed against ten years in a Mexican calabozo.
-ccm
You’ve got that exactly right.
Don't think you're right. You can take along any gun you want in US waters or on the high seas. The only problems come when you make port elsewhere.
My understanding is that most decent places allow guns aboard ship to be left in the custody of the harbor master or customs office, and not treated as if they have been imported into the country. There are probably significant amounts of paperwork involved.
At the other extreme, Jamaica supposedly will give you life in prison or hang you if they catch you with a gun anywhere in their 200-mile exclusion zone.
Experienced yachtsmen are invited to elucidate further.
-ccm
Ok, it might be necessary to design a lightweight version.
But we could build the gyro stabilization in natively then. (Instead of modding the old design)
If you can afford a yacht, you can afford $100 for a Mauser or SKS or Enfield you can drop overboard three miles out.
-ccm
-ccm
As for legality, civilian ownership of naval artillery was an expectation, when the Constitution was written. It is an implied right (unlike most of the crap the Supreme Court makes up). You can't have letter of Marque without armed merchantmen.
Heh, I don’t even know what a letter of Marque is!
Armed merchantmen is the best idea since canned soup.
Ok, I just looked it up.
I want a letter of Marque!
(Make those pirates have bad dreams at night)
For many years we took the boat to Cabo for 8 months of the year and always carried handguns and amunition.
For many years we took the boat to Cabo for 8 months of the year and always carried handguns and amunition.
Chucking must be awful...
...ya salty dawg...;-)
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