Bring your gun....climb aboard the time machine.
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Ala Dan
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Easy Choice For Me-
Since we celebrate the anniversary of one of the
bloodiest battles of the Viet-Nam war this week
(May 11th thru May 20th, 1969), my choice would be
the standard issue Colt Government Model .45
ACP.
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Easy Choice For Me-
Since we celebrate the anniversary of one of the
bloodiest battles of the Viet-Nam war this week
(May 11th thru May 20th, 1969), my choice would be
the standard issue Colt Government Model .45
ACP.
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Andrew Wyatt
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that's funny stuff, twoblink.
nevermind that an m-16 requires less cleaning than a blackpowder musket to stay working.
Orthonym
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No question. My victim: Elron. My weapon: any shotgun.The time: One second before he first laid finger to typewriter. Might even stick around for the law, confess, get hanged, etc. (I can get SO romantic) Anyway I think it would be worth the sacrifice even if caught involuntarily. Not only did that critter corrupt the minds of thousands with bad memes, he planted them in the noggin of John Campbell, which deed was an ENORMOUS crime. _Astounding_ was never the same afterwards.
Solinvictus70
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Probably a Kalshnikov variant (RPD or RPK) with which I would make myself Emperor of Rome (circa 80 CE), then write a constitution with rules of election and succession, abdicate power, and re-establish the Republic so we could avoid the Dark Ages. Honestly, though, human nature as it is, they would probably wind up the way the US is today in a few centuries...like they did.
A dead Hitler would likely have led directly to World War Two being Stalin's war. I would like to remind history buffs that the Red Army of 1941 enjoyed tremendous numeric superiority over most of Europe. Without the rapid re-armament program of Hitler, the Weimar Reichswehr would not have been a speedbump to the Soviet attack and the Red Army would have washed their boots on the coast of Brittany and the Adriatic. The only hope would have been a leader who would have re-armed WITHOUT being invasion happy.
A dead Hitler would likely have led directly to World War Two being Stalin's war. I would like to remind history buffs that the Red Army of 1941 enjoyed tremendous numeric superiority over most of Europe. Without the rapid re-armament program of Hitler, the Weimar Reichswehr would not have been a speedbump to the Soviet attack and the Red Army would have washed their boots on the coast of Brittany and the Adriatic. The only hope would have been a leader who would have re-armed WITHOUT being invasion happy.
Dionysusigma
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Hmmm...
I'd go with an AK or variant to the 1890s. A relatively simple rifle, with loads of potential for modification/ adaptation.
Scratch that.
I'd rather bring an old typewriter (once again, the most simplistic design imaginable) to the Romans. A culture with decent mathematical prowess, metalworking capability, etc. A culture with basically all the requirements for production of a cheap form of movable type. Ideas would spread further, for much cheaper, in greater quantity, advancing culture around the world at an amazing rate. It'd be about as revolutionary as the wheel, if not more.
In case that I'm not supposed to change history, I'd go back and meet my grandparents. Maybe go shooting with them.
Who says it ain't possible?
I'd go with an AK or variant to the 1890s. A relatively simple rifle, with loads of potential for modification/ adaptation.
Scratch that.
I'd rather bring an old typewriter (once again, the most simplistic design imaginable) to the Romans. A culture with decent mathematical prowess, metalworking capability, etc. A culture with basically all the requirements for production of a cheap form of movable type. Ideas would spread further, for much cheaper, in greater quantity, advancing culture around the world at an amazing rate. It'd be about as revolutionary as the wheel, if not more.
In case that I'm not supposed to change history, I'd go back and meet my grandparents. Maybe go shooting with them.
Who says it ain't possible?
DangerousSubvert
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Wow. I guess I'd have to say I'd want to be in Richmond around 1862 or so with something with a scope and take out a certain wannabe president... or a few years later to be in that corridor leading to the box at Ford's Theater and shoot that damn secesh actor...
As far as just watching, not participating? I'd love to be in the conference room when General Zhukov saved the world the second time (the first time it was by winning WW2) by holding a gun on Beria and arresting him while he was in a Politbureau meeting preparing to take over from the recently dead Stalin.
You guys all think "the Commies" (actually, the Stalinists) were bad as history actually happened? Check out Beria -- he made the Khmer Rouge look like the Red Cross.
As far as just watching, not participating? I'd love to be in the conference room when General Zhukov saved the world the second time (the first time it was by winning WW2) by holding a gun on Beria and arresting him while he was in a Politbureau meeting preparing to take over from the recently dead Stalin.
You guys all think "the Commies" (actually, the Stalinists) were bad as history actually happened? Check out Beria -- he made the Khmer Rouge look like the Red Cross.
H Romberg
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AR-15 and M203 with lots of HE rounds I'll be going to Scotland. Specifically, I'll be going to the battle of Culoden. I'll be making sure the Clan Maclay (my ancestors) gets rid of those traitorous soup making Campbels for supporting the English. I wonder what would have happened if Bonney Prince Charlie had won. It sure would scramble things, but how, I've no clue. What the heck! 
bogie
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I'd like to have the opportunity to take a teenage Chuckie Schumer shooting...
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I would go back and hunt dinosaurs with my barret.
Then I would introduce myself to JMB and by stock
Then I would introduce myself to JMB and by stock
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45R
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I would take a bunch of "evil assault weapons" back to when Clinton, Davis, Boxer and Feinstien were kids and teach them at a young age that black guns were not evil.
FAL, on the beach as Cortez lands. Ditto for Pizarro. While we're at it, go after the Inquisition, Matthew Hopkins, and the King Louis' "informant" within the Knights Templar. Jump forward to Hitler and Tojo.
Hey, I like this... I could be the "Time-Travelling Battuosai."
Of course, as many a sci-fi writer has pointed out, this kind of thing can have enormous unintended consequences. Can you hear the butterfly wings?
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PS: Anyone remember the name of the book where the Confederates get a shipment of AKs?
Hey, I like this... I could be the "Time-Travelling Battuosai."
Of course, as many a sci-fi writer has pointed out, this kind of thing can have enormous unintended consequences. Can you hear the butterfly wings?
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PS: Anyone remember the name of the book where the Confederates get a shipment of AKs?
Alan Smithiee
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The book with the south getting AK's was "Guns of the South" by Harry Turttledove, a copy of which is sitting in my headboard.
Several thoughts come to mind.
1) Take a best grade Bowen Ruger Bisley in .475 back to Elmer Keith when he was in his 20s. Ask for lessons in exchange.
2) 9.3x62 Pseudo Scout for general travel. I am very interested in Mass Extinctions (like Dino die off, more interested in the KT event though), though I wouldn't want to be ON the planet when they occured.
3) M1a Scout vs Pizzaro
1) Take a best grade Bowen Ruger Bisley in .475 back to Elmer Keith when he was in his 20s. Ask for lessons in exchange.
2) 9.3x62 Pseudo Scout for general travel. I am very interested in Mass Extinctions (like Dino die off, more interested in the KT event though), though I wouldn't want to be ON the planet when they occured.
3) M1a Scout vs Pizzaro
Devonai
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I would also like to see Boston around the mid to late 18th century, since I know most of Boston like the back of my hand and there was so much important history then.
A close second would be WWII, as a paratrooper over the bocage of France, June 1944.
For Boston 1774, I would choose a steel slide/aluminum frame semi-auto with a decent capacity, probably a Para-Ordnance P16 .40 or a Beretta 92FS 9mm with a few hi-caps. That and about 1,000 rounds of ammo. My plan would be to become proficient with the rifle of the day and transition to the pistol when the fighting got too close. My explanation would be, "I'm an inventor but my shop and all my toolings and plans were destroyed. This is all that's left."
For France 1944, the only thing I would bring would be 1,000 rounds of non-corrosive .30-06 to make my life easier. Don't ask me how I plan on jumping out of an airplane with that
BTW, as a Christian I believe that Jesus died for our sins and His death was part of God's plan for humankind. Do you really think YOU are going to change what happened?
A close second would be WWII, as a paratrooper over the bocage of France, June 1944.
For Boston 1774, I would choose a steel slide/aluminum frame semi-auto with a decent capacity, probably a Para-Ordnance P16 .40 or a Beretta 92FS 9mm with a few hi-caps. That and about 1,000 rounds of ammo. My plan would be to become proficient with the rifle of the day and transition to the pistol when the fighting got too close. My explanation would be, "I'm an inventor but my shop and all my toolings and plans were destroyed. This is all that's left."
For France 1944, the only thing I would bring would be 1,000 rounds of non-corrosive .30-06 to make my life easier. Don't ask me how I plan on jumping out of an airplane with that
BTW, as a Christian I believe that Jesus died for our sins and His death was part of God's plan for humankind. Do you really think YOU are going to change what happened?
Oh, Id go way back...and take me a 22 autoloader pitol.....WHy?
Because no matter what size the bullet....people will think it is magic, and stay away from me anyhow...Probably make me king....They will think I have the power of THOR, after I pointed my magic hammer at a rabbit, and it dropped dead. And I could carry 1000 rounds of it in my two pockets.
Because no matter what size the bullet....people will think it is magic, and stay away from me anyhow...Probably make me king....They will think I have the power of THOR, after I pointed my magic hammer at a rabbit, and it dropped dead. And I could carry 1000 rounds of it in my two pockets.
Tommy Gunn
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I would deliver a reproduction matchlock musket and the recipe for making blackpowder to Julius Caesar. Maybe give Ghengis Khan a map to the "New World" and mention something about seven cities of gold.
That would change everything!
That would change everything!
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