Keeping the peace

[Boreas]

Mexican Special Forces, front rank carrying the Barret M-82A1.



John

[merrylander]

From their expressions I figure the two guys in the middle are thinking "Go ahead, make my day."

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

From their expressions I figure the two guys in the middle are thinking "Go ahead, make my day."

Yeah, there's a number of guys putting on their game faces in that photo.

¿Quien es mas macho?

John

[JJIII]

"gettin' kicked like a mule like that just doesn't hold the appeal like it once did"

I heard that!

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Those Bad Bois weigh nigh on to 20-25 lbs, anyway, & as you can see, they're kinda, well, "Unwieldy". I suppose you COULD fire one from yr shoulder, if you HAD to, but I don't think you'd wanna do it too many times. Yr shoulder would be about 17 shades of black 'n' blue, & be sore as hell the next several days... The damndest round I ever fired was a 460 Weatherby Magnum, I kinda knew what was comin', I "Leaned" into it, & stuck it as firmly into my shoulder as I could...Result ? It "Rared" me back on one foot-I'm 6' tall & was then prolly 275 lbs, felt like a mule kicked me-Hard. The Nifty Fifty is, if memory serves, a good 2X as powerful as the 460...An' the 460 was all I wanted, & then some. Plus, this was 20-25 yrs ago when I shot that feckin' blunderbuss, I'm almost 53 now, & gettin' kicked like a mule like that just doesn't hold the appeal like it once did...Another thing, your damn ears will ring til the next day after touching off one of these loudenboomers....THAT ain't much fun, either. Neither is pissin' off dear ol' Unca Arthur & Aunt Bersie-the Itises-and a shock to yr system WILL get yr favorite aunt 'n' uncle riled...

A .460 WM?

Didn't know they wuz any pachyderms in Tennessee.

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

From their expressions I figure the two guys in the middle are thinking "Go ahead, make my day."

Don't know about that, but the feller all of the way to the left looks like his hemorrhoids are flaring up.

Chas

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Those Bad Bois weigh nigh on to 20-25 lbs,

Pft. Wimps. Back before CCDs, a tube Betacam weighed over 30 lbs. They sure as hell carried the things on their shoulders all day long too. Took good pictures. Once ran across one that had an SP back but a tube camera. looked dang nice. But not as good as the Ikegami 79D I shot with. That thing was an anchor too. Shot to a "portable" one inch deck. Sony was having a laugh calling that bastard portable.

[finnbow]

I think the heaviest recoil I ever experienced was patterning magnum 12 gauge turkey loads from a bench. They held 2 oz. (~900 grains) of shot pushed by a maximum dram equivalent of powder. These loads were brutal off a bench and made my mid-caliber centerfire rifles seem downright tame.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Charles

Don't know about that, but the feller all of the way to the left looks like his hemorrhoids are flaring up.

Chas

I kind of wondered about him, figured maybe his shorts were twisted.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I kind of wondered about him, figured maybe his shorts were twisted.

Nah, gotta be he hemorrhoids, I've had the same grimace a time or two.

Chas