For The Curious

[NePaSmoKer]

For those of you that have never seen a 50 cal sniper round.



Serious reach out and touch someone  ;D Or is that vaporize someone

nepas

[Smoking Duck]

Not only have I seen them, but I've fired them.  They are a beast, to say the least.  I wouldn't want to go groundhog hunting with them unless my goal was total annihilation  ;D

[aces-n-eights]

Here's a pic of my neighbor's .50 cal bear hunting rig.  Oh yeah, it's loud   :o

[Smoking Duck]

Now that's a nice looking piece of machinery.  The nice thing about the .50 cal....it sure is a lot easier to police up the ammo than the M-16  ;D

[smokeitall]

I wish I could post the pics I have a 50 cal tracer rounds and explosive tips.  Did a project with them a while back and they are very impressive.

[Smoking Duck]

I wish I could post the pics I have a 50 cal tracer rounds and explosive tips.  Did a project with them a while back and they are very impressive.

You're not with Blackwater, are you?  ;D ;D ;D

[NePaSmoKer]

I did some video at some live fire ranges my son tok me to. He said i cant post them because Special Forces and Delta Force use the range. The vids i have are cool, live fire of mark19 and sniper range.

nepas

[Smoking Duck]

I used to do some research while I was in the military and I was actually the first person to fire the JAVELIN anti-tank weapon (from an enclosed position) that they were working on (this was in the early 90's).  Now, that, was a rush!  Of course, this was done in conjunction with a lot of testing on the by-products from the combustion.  They actually paid me to take blood, urine and semen samples.  I think it was like $75 at the time (which was a lot of money to us young military guys).  Told them if they'd been around when I was 13, I'd have been a millionaire by now.   :o  Ahh, Redstone Arsenal.  I loved that place.....great place for TDY.......good food and sweet tea!

[IKnowWood]

Duck, I been down there in Huntsville.  There was this great southern place out in the cotton fields that had some great food.  Best Hush Puppies I ever had.  Wild place out in no-where.  Driving on Redstone was cool place.

[Smoking Duck]

I was there many times.  I spent a lot of time in Alabama (went to basic at Ft McClellan; I think that's been closed for awhile now).  I loved it down there.  Nowhere up here makes Sweet Tea ('cept McDonalds and that sucks).  I had some pretty good Q down there at one joint but can't remember the name of it for the life of me.

[3rensho]

When the quad 50's let go in Vietnam it was most impressive.

[bullhead]

We used the 50cal. As a spoter round on the 106. little bang before the big boom.

[Wildcat]

When the quad 50's let go in Vietnam it was most impressive.

You betcha.  Had them on almost every firebase over there along with the artillary.