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January 14th, 2023, 04:38 AM | #1 |
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Post pictures & history about firearms & other weapons (largely excluding tanks/jets because they have their own threads)
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January 14th, 2023, 08:50 AM | #2 |
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January 14th, 2023, 03:47 PM | #3 |
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When I was growing up, the silhouette of the AK47 being held overhead represented nearly every insurgency that was occurring. It seemed that every enemy of the US had them.
It fascinated me and led me to the earlier STG44/MP44 - which although ergonomically similar to the AK47 - had vastly different internal mechanisms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPVix-GOg1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgV7dn_59YE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRJLdAUBR6w The Samuel L Jackson seal of approval. Mikhail Kalashnikov was a genius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov |
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January 16th, 2023, 01:53 PM | #4 |
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Hollywood military cliches.
All military (mainly shotguns) and with chicks?
I reckon a few morgue photographs should be shown here - to put things into perspective. Nah, let's don't do that. Lock and load, right? Here's a proper rifle, without the bullshit. (Sako 22-250 85 Hunter) Wooden and blued. UK and Australian SAS used this calibre as a sniper rifle, as it shoots point blank ((MPBR) head to chest) 300m and can reach out far more than that. And with a half-decent scope - pick an eye at 200m. Being bolt action - far more powerful and accurate than semi-autos. The only problem with them, you have to know how to shoot.
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January 16th, 2023, 02:46 PM | #5 |
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Exhibit A: the Soviet PPsh41 submachine gun. A simple, mass-produced weapon that could withstand the mud and snow of the Eastern Front. Used by the Germans, too, whenever they could capture one.
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Kalashnikov hit that sweet spot in design that was cheap, reliable, broadly accurate, and hit hard enough. Being made in 30+ countries also helps get it out there very quickly The STG44 was a feat of engineering, like much of the German materiel. This didn't always work in favour of the chaps trying to use the weapons when they broke down, but it did start spawn the assault rifle genre.
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January 16th, 2023, 04:43 PM | #7 |
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Another classic - the 1911 pistol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_pistol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-HFVG_c4Q The designer is John Moses Browning - considered the leading American firearms designer ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning No doubt a genius. |
January 16th, 2023, 11:45 PM | #8 |
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Oh man, another post deleted. And innocuous too!
Anyhoo, it's been reported to Estreeter. Let him sort this out. BTW, I've saved a copy of this post, because, you know, aliens etc.
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And they corrected for the upwards deflection - 3 tap - guts to head, by altering the muzzle brake - genius! Problem was, of course, the 7.62 x 39 has no range. And still doesn't - except, maybe on feral pigs.
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January 17th, 2023, 05:12 AM | #10 |
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For anyone interested in Firearm history & technicalities I can not recommend the youtube channel Forgotten Weapons highly enough.
Example: Ian explaining the clusterfuck that was the origins of the L96A1 Sniper - https://youtu.be/Z-j3Isreqbg ... Colt Python Colt Lightning/Thunderer (colt's first double action) The Wildey (iconic for being in Death Wish 3) Smith & Wesson Model 3/Schofield (many consider it to be the best revolver of the old west) Last edited by movieman88; January 17th, 2023 at 05:22 AM.. |
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