Enter the madhouse

[trystinn]

Josh: I wanna go shoot my new sniper rifle.
Tris: So go *shooing motion*
Josh: Wanna come?
Tris: Are we going to use Correlians as target practice? I could download some of their badges, print them out and tape them to the targets.
Josh: You scare me. No.
Tris: How about $RW books?
Josh: Yeah, see, I don't think they will let us use those at the rifle range.
Tris: Book of Mormon? Watchtower? Jack Chick tracts? Jehovah's Witless VHS tapes? Bush-Cheney bumper stickers? Yellow support our troops car magnets?
Josh: Paper targets, hon, universal non-descript could-be-anyone profile targets.
Tris: Not worth my time, then. Let me know when you decide to get serious.
Josh: Do our Elders know about this side of you?
Tris: Who do you think gave me those ideas?
Josh: Good point.

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[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

LOL

I saw a bumpersticker today that I haven't seen before.
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[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I'd like to get one of those countdown keychains :)

Sounds like fun to me

[trystn.livejournal.com]

What caliber does he have and where do you know of a 500 + meter range? I'll go shooting with him any time, although I only have a .25-06 Remington, a 117 Grain Hornady Interlock at 2800 fps can make a Book of Mormon explode ...

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

She bought him a Russian sniper rifle. Whether it's a Dragunov or a Moisin-Nagant, it's most likely chambered for 7.62x54R. M-N kick like mules, for some reason. My No.2 Mk4 SMLE in .303 has a recoil like an angel's shrug in comparison.

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Its a Moisin-Nagant - the one used in Enemy at the Gates.

+1

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

Like most Russian designs of that period, Moisin-Nagants are simple, rugged to the point of being nearly impossible to break, and real short on frills. But they function reliably, even under adverse conditions.

I was an infantry sergeant in the 82d Airborne during the tail end of the Cold War: we got regular familiarizations with most Russian-made small-arms. My shoulder is all to familiar with the kick of an M-N.

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

It shoots 7.26 x 54Rs and the course around here is a 150 yard one.

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[trystn.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure if he was going to be shooting the Russian 7.62, 173 grain LCB's or .50's (Yes there are people who actually enjoy shooting Barretts, which I don't understand at all. The one time I fired one, back in 90, it moved me - as in about four inches backward - with each shot.) Still, find me a 500+ meter range closer than Bangor ...

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[trystn.livejournal.com]

Mind you, I'm the fellow who, being an old 0331/32 LOVES the M2 Browning with a passion.

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Ma Deuce is my friend. Never fired any of the .50 BMG rifles, more's the pity. Most of my really long range shooting was dome with slightly larger stuff: TOW missiles, tank cannon, that sort of thing.

We are, by the way, creeping up on the M2's centenary in US service. 2023, I think. The small-arms boffins at Picatinny keep trying to build something that does the same things at a lighter weight, but they can't match the reliability

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Russian 7.62 good guess.

There's a rumor a place down in South Whidbey will do that distance - I'll check on it for you.

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[trystn.livejournal.com]

Thanks Trista, Josh might be interested as well, in trying out what that rifle's 700-800 meter ranges shoot like.

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - he'd definately like to see how far that thing can go!

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[trystn.livejournal.com]

The SVD Dragunov is rated for an effective range of 800 meters. In practice, more like 600 - 700 but some Spetznaz snipers found ways to overcome the weaknesses inherenant in the gas-auto configuration and could make some very impressive shots.

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

One of these days, you and DB ought to come up to visit. The guys can go shoot, the gals will go shopping or to Earth Sanctuary.

Sound like a plan?

Re: Sounds like fun to me

[trystn.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan to us :-)

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a perfectly ordinary converation in our home.

MY wife wouldn't let me buy a 105mm howitzer on the sole ground that we can't buy ammo for it, and she's not having guns lying about that we can't shoot...

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

LOL We have a running gag among the Kingstones here that we should start our own rifle team. There's just *that* many of us who enjoy shooting.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, sounds good to me. We could do a whole post on the after effects of various artillery vs dogmatic texts.

[keastree.livejournal.com]

My Elders have at times expressed interest to either A) have me on their side in a firefight and/or B) stand where my SP21 ejects its brass so they can catch it as it flies(sends the casings to within a 4 inch circle when it fires).

ION, I've been thinking about trying Bible v .45ACP to so I can demonstrate that Bibles don't stop bullets. I need to do it with a Pentacle as well. :)

[seastormwitch.livejournal.com]

*LMAO* Sounds like a great conversation to me!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Pretty tame stuff around here. Today we voted for which online comic was the most tasteless, offensive and disgusting ever.

I won (http://www.sexylosers.com) :)

[dbmyrrha.livejournal.com]

LOL. You're right. Funny, though.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Hysterically funny, too bad the guy hasn't updated in a year though but the guest comics are hysterically funny. Toy Division is a good one, too.

[luna-rae.livejournal.com]

Too funny! I had a good laugh reading that!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

We're a funny bunch, lemme tell you.

[herbmcsidhe.livejournal.com]

Knowing your Elders, they probably did, indeed. :)

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Kingstone Rifle Club, anyone?

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

I love Chick Tracts! My favourite is a tie between "John Sullivan the Catholic Goes to Hell" and the one about how Dungeons & Dragons turns people onto witchcraft and makes them commit suicide. Great times.

Your husband lets you have no fun. :P My husband says he would love to shoot at a picture of Bush.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Its probably best as an active duty sailor he not do things like that. LOL