26 Aug
1998
26 Aug
'98
7:08 a.m.
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.
BTW a friend of mine makes a printed circuit type card for a
computerized chronograph used to measure 20mm rounds for an ammo
manufacturer. They actually fire the round thru the card, and use the
break in the circuit to control the chronograph. Because of the size
and amount of gas generated by a 20mm round, a regular chronograph using
sky light doesn't work, not accurate enough. The card is actually silk
screened conductive ink on cardboard.
Yeah, I'd like to have a Barrett too, but $5K is a bit too steep for me,
unless someone would like to trade for a nice IMSAI with front panel?
Then there's the cost of dies and a reloader for .50BMG rounds...
Jack Peacock
26 Aug
26 Aug
11:54 a.m.
New subject: OT RE: BLAM, BLAM, BLAM! ;]
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jack Peacock wrote:
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
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. 
12:09 p.m.
New subject: OT RE: BLAM, BLAM, BLAM! ;]
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
Don:
Would you mind privately e-mailing me and telling me who the heck Elmer
Keith was? I keep reading about "Elmer Keith would have liked x" where
x is some species of large caliber handgun in magazines and I haven't got
a clue who he was.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)calico.litterbox.com
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12:16 p.m.
New subject: OT RE: BLAM, BLAM, BLAM! ;]
zzzzz...
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jim wrote:
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
Don:
Would you mind privately e-mailing me and telling me who the heck Elmer
Keith was? I keep reading about "Elmer Keith would have liked x" where
x is some species of large caliber handgun in magazines and I haven't got
a clue who he was.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)calico.litterbox.com
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1:04 p.m.
New subject: OT RE: BLAM, BLAM, BLAM! ;]
Could people PLEASE email privately regarding GUNS and CARS????
I don't bore y'all with my MOPAR and COIN-OP crap so please don't fill up
my inbox with all this off-topic banter...at last load there were upwards
of a dozen blatantly off-topic posts. Stop being so darn self absorbed!
xoxo van
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12:42 p.m.
New subject: OT RE: BLAM, BLAM, BLAM! ;]
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jim wrote:
Visit www.gunbooksales.com for a summary of Keith and the books that he
has authored.
- don
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
Don:
Would you mind privately e-mailing me and telling me who the heck Elmer
Keith was? I keep reading about "Elmer Keith would have liked x" where
x is some species of large caliber handgun in magazines and I haven't got
a clue who he was.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)calico.litterbox.com
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5:48 p.m.
At 09:08 AM 8/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
Yeah, I'd like to have a Barrett too, but $5K is a bit too steep for me,
unless someone would like to trade for a nice IMSAI with front panel?
Then there's the cost of dies and a reloader for .50BMG rounds...
Try $50 EACH for dies and a 20,000 lb hydraulic press for reloading!
Joe
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