I don't know. You tell me why I'd mount a perfectly good Browning M2.50 caliber machine gun on the back of a baby buggy and drag it around with an ATV.
Actually, the one you're looking at probably is a semi-auto rather than a full-auto machine gun. That means it fires just one round at a time, and is nothing more than an industrial grade rifle. But that also means you can buy one of them without getting a signoff on a federal ATF tax form and the FBI checking out your fingerprints for some 3-4 months.
But .50 caliber rifles are not to be laughed at. Carlos Hathcock, the great US Marine Corps sniper of the Viet Nam war, used a "Ma Duece" one round at a time to assassinate enemy big shots at such long distances, that those suckers probably could hardly believe what had hit them, in that bare instant before they were converted into corpses.
Even so, there is some number of real .50 cal machine guns -- the fullauto ones -- registered to civilians. If any of you want to see a bunch of these in action, and don't mind paying for the the ammunition and the gun rental, head on over to the Knob Creek Gun Range in northern Kentucky about an hour's ride south of Louisville. They have two big machine gun weekends there in mid-April and mid-October.
After one of our submachine gun matches at our rented gravel pit gunrange just outside Mount Horeb last year, one of our regulars brought out a Russian RPD machine rifle. We set it up at one extreme end of the range, and an aluminum beer barrel at the other end. And each of us in turn had some Knob Creek fun of the rare type.
(A couple of days later, I had to haul that old beer barrel over to a junkyard on the east side of Madison WI. The junkyard guy looked at the nightmare of holes in the barrel, looked at me, and said:
"What in hell made all them holes?"
I just smiled, said nothing, got back into my old Aerostar, and drove off. Then I started laughing my ass off.
I had a neighbor in Chicago who had, in his younger days, hunted rabbit in the hedgerows of Normandy with a .45 Thompson. Wisconsin hunting regulations, however, specifically prohibit the use of "machineguns" and I would expect the game wardens would be displeased even if the selector wer set on "semi".
(Though 'twould be even more beautiful if a warm woman was behind that cold steel -- or two very _hot_ women warming each other up while destroying their enemies with those guns.)
Hee.
I'll have to ask my son if they covered this in Hunter Safety class. Somehow, I think not.
Wish him luck, his field final test is today!
I don't know. You tell me why I'd mount a perfectly good Browning M2.50 caliber machine gun on the back of a baby buggy and drag it around with an ATV.
Actually, the one you're looking at probably is a semi-auto rather than a full-auto machine gun. That means it fires just one round at a time, and is nothing more than an industrial grade rifle. But that also means you can buy one of them without getting a signoff on a federal ATF tax form and the FBI checking out your fingerprints for some 3-4 months.
But .50 caliber rifles are not to be laughed at. Carlos Hathcock, the great US Marine Corps sniper of the Viet Nam war, used a "Ma Duece" one round at a time to assassinate enemy big shots at such long distances, that those suckers probably could hardly believe what had hit them, in that bare instant before they were converted into corpses.
Even so, there is some number of real .50 cal machine guns -- the fullauto ones -- registered to civilians. If any of you want to see a bunch of these in action, and don't mind paying for the the ammunition and the gun rental, head on over to the Knob Creek Gun Range in northern Kentucky about an hour's ride south of Louisville. They have two big machine gun weekends there in mid-April and mid-October.
After one of our submachine gun matches at our rented gravel pit gunrange just outside Mount Horeb last year, one of our regulars brought out a Russian RPD machine rifle. We set it up at one extreme end of the range, and an aluminum beer barrel at the other end. And each of us in turn had some Knob Creek fun of the rare type.
(A couple of days later, I had to haul that old beer barrel over to a junkyard on the east side of Madison WI. The junkyard guy looked at the nightmare of holes in the barrel, looked at me, and said:
"What in hell made all them holes?"
I just smiled, said nothing, got back into my old Aerostar, and drove off. Then I started laughing my ass off.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Even so, there is some number of real .50 cal machine guns -- the fullauto ones -- registered to civilians.
Heh. spelled "fellatio" wrong. Heh heh.
Ara,
Whatever we gun owners do for our sexual jollies, we do with warm women; certainly not with cold steel.
Try it some time.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Ooops. Sorry. Smudgy reading glasses.
Never mind.
I had a neighbor in Chicago who had, in his younger days, hunted rabbit in the hedgerows of Normandy with a .45 Thompson. Wisconsin hunting regulations, however, specifically prohibit the use of "machineguns" and I would expect the game wardens would be displeased even if the selector wer set on "semi".
I love the _style_ of that. Beautiful!
(Though 'twould be even more beautiful if a warm woman was behind that cold steel -- or two very _hot_ women warming each other up while destroying their enemies with those guns.)
Steven etc, etc, etc,
I thought I wrote weird, picaresque, and all that good stuff. Up until the days I eyeballed some of your copy. (Now you make me feel normal, sort of.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI