Random Gun Pics...let’s see how random we can make it

HowieG said:
is we have a billion pounds of the stuff just laying around. Of course, there is that pesky radioactivity....
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To put a fine point on it, it's depleted from a natural concentration of about 0.7% to 0.3% or less.
Which reduces its radioactivity by 60% (from natural U-238). At 24 days after depletion the U-238 decays to U-234. Which is getting down to the levels seen in a bunch of bananas, or about a third more than natural anthracite coal.

As to quantities, about 60% of DU goes to military uses (all kinds, including weapons casings) the rest goes to industrial uses.
 
CapnNac:
Interesting.

Even the 30 mm rounds used against armored vehicles by the A-10 “Warthog” GAU Gatling gun have depleted uranium.

The tng. and incendiary rounds have none of it.
 
Seedy Character said:
My Grandmother's Iver Johnson .410. She got it in 1915, right after getting married. She kept it close by, wherever she was on the farm.
Supplied many family meals and dispatched unwanted critters.

One of my favorite squirrel guns. My grandkids are now enjoying it.


Random enough?
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The toes are pretty random, the 410 not so much!:neener:
 
Ignition Override said:
Even the 30 mm rounds used against armored vehicles by the A-10 “Warthog” GAU Gatling gun have depleted uranium.
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Part of that is the geometry of the penetrator and its velocity.

With the tank rounds, the penetrator uses both geometry and velocity. The inner round is sized to be 1:15 to 1:17 width-to-length, and then its accelerated to 4000fps. When the pentrator strikes armor, the kinetic energy release cause a phase state change in the struck plate, converting to a form of plasma. This ablated the penetrator as well. The remainder then passes through to defeat spaced armor (which deters spalling damage). At which point the pyrophoric nature of DU kicks in.

The 25mm and 30mm rounds don't quite reach the 4000fps, so they just use mass, and spalling effects from being directed at areas without spaced armor (through the engine deck and firewall, for instance).

Using DU in the 2o, 25, & 30 mm rounds is a bit like using 147gr rounds in 9x19 versus 115gr ones. Velocity is a bit lower, but the mass is greater.
 
Here you go. Random stuff put together to make a nice picture. Central is a reproduction 18th century all-metal British highland regiment officers flintlock pistol from Miltary Heritage in Canada. An engraved version of one of these belonging to a British Marine Major Pitcairn is thought to have fired the first shot at Lexington---igniting the start of the American Revolution. Also included is a Scottish Targe (shield I made from a kit many years ago) along with a basket hilt backsword (cheap India made $15 flea market find), highlighted with a Royal Stewart tartan (scrap swatch of cloth--$2 at Hobby Lobby)
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Cheers

P.S. I also thought about including in this shot pictures of my bare feet and nasty-looking toes but thought I would save that distinct pleasure for a future photo.:evil:
 
CapnMac said:
To put a fine point on it, it's depleted from a natural concentration of about 0.7% to 0.3% or less.
Which reduces its radioactivity by 60% (from natural U-238). At 24 days after depletion the U-238 decays to U-234. Which is getting down to the levels seen in a bunch of bananas, or about a third more than natural anthracite coal.

As to quantities, about 60% of DU goes to military uses (all kinds, including weapons casings) the rest goes to industrial uses.[/QUOTE

Yeah, I never really worried about it. The Army likes the cost break vs tungsten alloy. The EPA has an issue with it though. Not that they don't have an issue with everything else.
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The kid in FL with the guns he and his grandfather fished out with a magnet on their first day. In spite of news reports that they found .50cal Barrett sniper rifles those are clearly not Barrett's MRAD or any of their other .50s. Silly reporting.
 
Speedo66
Interesting, the company name is spelled two different ways on the boxes.
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That is kind of interesting as I have only known it as High Standard. Kind of got me thinking, since the boxes look a little dated, that my Gun Digest of 1955 might shine a little light on the matter.

Sure enough, on the very same page in the "Pistols and Revolvers, models and prices Section", you have both names: High Standard and Hi-Standard!

And try not to look at the prices!
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bannockburn said:
Speedo66


That is kind of interesting as I have only known it as High Standard. Kind of got me thinking, since the boxes look a little dated, that my Gun Digest of 1955 might shine a little light on the matter.

Sure enough, on the very same page in the "Pistols and Revolvers, models and prices Section", you have both names: High Standard and Hi-Standard!

And try not to look at the prices!
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Hi-Standard was just the abbreviated version of High Standard. Take a close look at the roll marks on their firearms. They used both.
 
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