and he's no longer "That Lump" on your couch!StangDreamin' said:Hey, man! Glad to hear you on here!
skywalker said:Just do me a favor: for the love of God make sure you know how to clear a weapons jam. Learn the meaning of the term immediate action and intermediate action and above all "Tap-Rack-Bang."
NoKitten said:.....The rest wasn't covered. Generally, everything is immediate action.
~Critter
Don't forget to include 6 coat-hangers and a BFH!Taken from NoKitten's sig said:Duct tape and Krylon. What else do we need?
NoKitten said:Drop the Mag, clear the chamber, slap the mag in and FIRE!!!! M249 SAW is more fun though.
The rest wasn't covered. Generally, everything is immediate action.
~Critter
StangDreamin' said:Of course, there's nothing like a .54cal sabot round; but I need to wear my (bifocal) glasses to reliably stay in the x-ring with them
Ya.....of gotta wear my sunglasses, plus alot of SPF4500!65stanger said:me.....I prefer thermonuclear weapons!
StangDreamin' said:12 gauge. 3" magnum rounds. Buffered 2x4 duplex loads. An average 15 .25cal balls and 16-18 .17cal balls; all going downrange at one squeeze of the trigger. Repeat twice; five times if you've pulled the hunting plug out.
If you're dealing with larger game (or "well-medicated" dorks); switch to #00 loads - only 11-12 balls/trigger, but they're all .32caliber
Of course, there's nothing like a .54cal sabot round; but I need to wear my (bifocal) glasses to reliably stay in the x-ring with them
Well, I guess, if you just can't handle a shotugn unless it has a recoil action and buffers on top of that to boot. Guess I'll just stick to the old-fashioned pump-action Winchester - though I have to admit that I've grown weak and installed a Pachmayr shock-buff pad.skywalker said:As for shotguns, I LOOOOOVED the Bernoulli semi-auto that I got to shoot once at the proving grounds. Almost no kick thanks to th ebuffer spring...jsut enought o know you were firing a shotgun. LOOOOTSA power.
I've shot the civilian AR-15 a few times, and it's a good piece. However, I know an old Korea and VietNam vet whose one exclamation about the M16 goes something like: "No matter how much powder you put in the case; it's still just a .22!"M16A2 is still the mainstay in the Marine Corps. The M16A4 is coming around a bit and MEU dets sometimes see M4A1s (carbine version of the M16, more or less the same weapon.)
I'm not so sure that the term "Drop the mag" is supposed to be a literal term! You guys in the Corps need to study up on alliteration! Even out here in the civilian world; FA instructors have royal conniption fits when they hear the sound of a mag buttplate smacking the concrete Even if nobody is trying to kill you; that mag is still gonna be useless if the buttplate had enough "bounce" in it to flip the mag over to land on its feed-lips. EDIT: You drop the pinkie finger of your "shooting hand" off the grip frame/mag well to capture the magazine part-way out of the mag well. Leave it ther while you cycle the action (in the case of a failure to fire), THEN tap-rack-bang!Dear God, I'd love to talk to the moron who told that kid to drop his mag. You never drop the mag unless you're under really good cover and have no other choice. The time lost searching for that mag in a panic and then reinserting it in a panic is enough time to get killed 10 times. I know this, and I'm not a grunt!
skywalker said:IF YOU DROP THAT MAG YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!!!!!!
It's TAP RACK BANG that's immediate action.
Tap the bottom of the mag (more like bang or slap) rack the bolt back to the rear and then fire away: tap - rack - bang.
You do what you just described and you'll be like Jessica Lynch.
Intermediate action is in a case like a double feed. You first take cover, then lock the bolt back and clear the rounds from the chamber, remove the mag IF and ONLY IF necessary and them slap the mag in and send the bolt forward and fire away.
A saw is a lot of fun. So is a 240G, and a ma deuce, and a GAU, but it's hard to bullseye someone's head with a single shot at 500 yards with a fully automatic weapon. But you CAN do that with an M-16. Pretty easily too.
God almighty, where does the army get this crap?!