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Default Heavy metal! 950 caliber rifle.

Gunner Asch on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:41:53 -0800
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:23:15 -0800, pyotr filipivich
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Gunner Asch on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:15:26 -0800
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:54:24 -0800, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
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technomaNge wrote:

Awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=xohy9gWz7kk

Why?

What are the ballistics like? The range? Is there anything that this can
kill that a .50 or a .30 can't with one shot? Keep in mind, you'll be
getting back up off your ass after the first round misses, while your
game/target runs for cover.

If...if it misses.


I'd have to say that the first few rounds one fires are likely to
be "flyers" - as one learns to handle the recoil.

But after that ... like the old Henry Martini in .45 - once you
learn to handle it, those you shoot at will hurt more than you.


Ayup. Watching the various videos, one can spot the guy or 3 that
handles the recoil properly, leans in, takes the shot, recovers and
would be ready to go again. No spazzing around, falling over backwards
and so forth. And NOT the big guys either. Just some normal sized guys
who obviously have put some rounds down range in the past.


I figure if 150 pound, five foot six Brits can go through some two
thousand rounds with a Henry Martini in one long engagement (Roakes
Drift) and still function, it should not be all that difficult for "a
grown man" to handle a .940 caliber rifle. Might take some practice,
but hey, if they can handle a .75 caliber gun (aka a 12 gauge shotgun
firing slugs), what's another .19 caliber?

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