Bring your gun....climb aboard the time machine.

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...Mr Peabody and Sherman just invited you to take a trip in the "Way Back Machine"....headed for any period of time in History (you select the date and place), you can also take one firearm of your choice to perhaps influence history or give a technology boost to the firearm industry. (sorry no full autos)....what firearm and time period should Mr Peabody be prepared for?

(edited to be any time in History)
 
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No full auto? Sissy.

GMG from HK, semi only since you insist, with plenty of ammo, World War I. If I could bring a blue print and a description of the polymer/plastic imagine what we could have today. And fortyish grenades a minute is a lot of explosives. Especially for WWI. :)
 
Selfish History perhaps

Even though I'm the eldest, I only knew one grandparent, and that grandmother died when I was 5.

I have heard tell of my grandfathers and great grandfathers skill afield. I don't know or care what firearm, I'd just want to be afield with them. I do know my maternal grandfather made knives, mother has his "hog killing" knife, made from a saw blade from the mill and a wooden handle he crafted ( he also did carpentry work). I want to see him make this.

Again being selfish, Ruark, Hemingway, Capstick, Teddy Roosevelt. Again I don't recall the firearms, I'd let these fine gentleman make the choice, I just want to meet and go afield with them.

I wouldn't have to be a written part of the history, I'd just want the satisfaction of having been there and experienced it.
 
I was thinking about the Alamo, showing up with a scoped M1A and picking off Santa Anna....dressed up all pretty sitting on his horse....

...of course going T-Rex hunting with a Barrett 50 BMG would be a rush...
 
Interestingly enough I have thought about this before... and it is REALLY a TOUGH call.

I guess that I'd probably have to settle for the most obvious and probably the most trite example. I think I'd load up with a few rounds and a Nor-Cal Nighthawk and slip back to the early thirties.

I'd drop a few rounds into an aspiring artist who later caused the deaths of millions of men, women, and children, and set the USA on a course of moving from an isolationist policy to this one-world-government sickness we are participating in, (thus watering down our sovereignty and personal rights).

There are certainly many many more possibilities, many ways history could be 'corrected' but the example above has more importance for this century and the future of our rights as Americans than most I can think of.

Still.. the tyranosaurus idea is cool....

This has shades of Minority Report (which I just watched last night) as well as the movie The Final Countdown... lots of time paradoxes and other such. I rememeber reading ]A Short Story in grade school about hunters going back in time and killing Dinosaurs just before they'd have died anyhow. One of the hunters sliped off th path and stepped on a butterfly... when he returned to 'present time' there were incredible changes... all from that one little butterfly.

Oh oh.. a time travel thread.. this could get strange..
Oh oh.. a time travel thread.. this could get strange..
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Charles

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one gun to change history

A glock...any glock, take it to the middle 1800's
 
Alamo seems fun. I'd use a flame thrower though. I'd get to Santa Anna eventually. I don't know if that counts as full auto.

Battling through the Bocage with an OICW would be interesting. Especially with infared....

Getting guy's in black pjs in vietnam with an OICW would be cool too.

On 50 caliber and T. Rexes:
Guys, c'mon.. do you really wanna shoot it with what is, relative to it, a pellet gun? I'd do it with.. hmm.. maybe an AC130. Not the gatling gun, but the howitzer. Maybe some white phosphor shells. So I wouldnt have to cook the meat.

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I'd grab some buddies, with whatever small arms they wanted, for this fantasy I'll say shotguns. Then we'd zap back to around September 10th 2001, and take care of some urgent business.
 
Lessee....FAL. A cartfull of Hirtenberger. A case of spare parts. Magazines. Gun oil. And aim me for...

Ancient Rome. :D

Mike
 
February 13, 1933

I would be waiting outside a drug store in Miami Florida for Guiseppe Zangara with any reasonably powered scoped hunting rifle.

"Save your $4 Guiseppe, take mine"
 
Hmmmm. I'd want to do my best to improve the US.

Two opportunities, and it turns out both would benefit from the very same gun, assuming I could bring a LOT of ammo and a decent parts/armorer's kit.

The gun: AR pattern in .223 with good sights (both glass and backup Tritium irons) with a 20" heavy barrel (match stuff). I'd also want to bring some key *knowledge*, particularly in wound care/doctorin'.

Option #1 (preferred): go to 1770. Boil down red seaweed until you've got a high-iodine-content "betadine solution" - combined with basic boiled rags sealed in wax paper, you can revolutionize wound care and make enough money to be a respected member of society.

Enter the Revolutionary war on the colonial side. Kick major redcoat butt until you've got a rep.

Convince Jefferson and company to outlaw slavery!

Do whatever it takes, including revealing you're a time-traveller and outlining the Civil War. Worst case, phase it out over 10 years or so. Put in an equality clause with teeth right into the original BoR.

Option 2: Go to 1870. Shoot every member of the US Supreme Court before they can dismantle the first attempt at civil rights reform (1866 - 1868). But there's no guarantee you won't get 9 more racist sons of birches :(.

Option is a little bit riskier personally, 'cuz you have to survive a whole war.
 
I would like to make many trips. For many of the trips no gun needed. Say for Sept. 11 get there say Sept. 1st with all info. I think in 10 days I could get things in motion to have armed Air Marshells on those planes. Two weeks would be better.
Then go back to when some locals were killed. Say Brian Klienfelter, Jacob Wetterling,etc. Get into position with .223 and at first shot take out BG and fade. Officer has one in the vest and shooter has .223 in head. Nobody knows from where. Same for kidnapping he has gun on three kids take him out./fade.
Hey you can't stick around because you will run into yourself when they are checking your background and trouble that will cause.
 
How about standing shoulder-to-shoulder with King Leonidas, my trusty FAL on my shoulder, feeling a chill run up my spine to hear "Molan Labe" shouted to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor. To feel the welcome recoil from my faithful rifle as I send round after round into the faces of the onrushing horde and all those pretty brass casings pile up around my feet. Ahhh, the smell of history being made in front of my eyes.

Michael in Sandy, OR
 
Nope. You want to fix something that went bigtime WRONG.

Thermopylae worked out exactly as the Spartans planned. Going there would cheapen it.

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I'm not sure nailing Hitler would help. It might even hurt. Fascism as a political movement wasn't his invention, nor was he the only lunatic in Germany at that period...and another leader might not have invaded Russia :rolleyes:.

Better to strengthen the US for what lay ahead.
 
I would go back to the time of Jesus and prevent him from being killed. I would just have a pistol and and take out Pilot. Had Jesus not been killed, he would have lived until he was old and people would have lost interest in him. There would be no Christianity and many millions of innocent people would have been spared death at the hands of people claiming to be doing God's work.
 
:rolleyes:

Great idea! We all know Christianity is the only religion to be misused for violent means.

(Heeeeeere we go...)
 
Jim, I guess I agree in principal, but I kinda like the idea of being confronted by overwhelming forces and standing with brave men as wave, after horrific wave of sword wielding soldiers try to roll over us all. If you wont let me fight against Xerxes, how about letting me be holed up in Masada with the Jewish defenders? I would like an adequate sniping platform, with great optics and a huge supply of ammo. A laser rangefinder would be an added +. I could do alot of nice damage to the upper ranks of the Roman army encamped around the plateau. A hopeless cause has always appealed to the romantic in me.

Michael in Sandy, OR
 
.22 LR semi-auto handgun with silencer.

Back to the car park at Port Arthur, Tasmania, on Sunday, 28 April 1996, just as one sick little pr!ck named Martin Bryant climbs out of his car carrying his "sportsbag" containing a Colt AR15.

There'd be 35 innocent people alive today -- and shooters in Australia wouldn't have to feel much the way homosexuals did in the 1950s!

And the best part would be -- no-one would ever know just what had been averted -- or who had done it or why.
 
I'd go Dino hunting.

I'm not man enough to stand at the alamo or thermopolaye or the little big horn, and more importantly without training I'd likely get more people killed.

Lol that or get a camera and a backside view/side view of the grassy knoll.
 
M14 introduced to the Americans when they fought the Brits..

<flame suit on>

If I want the Americans to lose, I'd hand them an M16.

<naw.. I'll keep the flame suit on..>:D
 
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