On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jack Peacock wrote:
Oboyoboy! Do
these folks have any Barrett Light Fifties?
I always wanted to try out a rifle
that could remove a shooter's
shoes
for him! kaBLAMMMMM! ;]
Nope, out of luck, all they have are pistol and submachine guns, after
all, it's an indoor range, a .50 BMG would go right thru the wall and
the building next door too. Indoor ranges don't have the backstop for
any rifle rounds, so no AKs, FALs, Galils, any of the good stuff either.
They'd also have to add some depth and padding behind the firing line. I
recall seeing a series of pictures depicting Elmer Keith firing a one-off
.50 caliber bolt action(?) single shot out in the back country. The
first frame showed Elmer taking aim over the top of a car parked along
the edge of a dirt road. The next had him more or less erect and the
barrel pointing upwards a bit. In the final frame he was pretty much
across the dirt road and the muzzle was aimed at the clouds. Pretty
awesome! I think that he still had his boots on though.
- don