Wow, talk about a fantasy

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A lot of young service men hear and believe a lot BS stories. Apparently so does a goodly number of the members of the many forums from some of the ballistic claims, accuracy and other things I read from time to time. A grain of salt or a whole dang shaker full.:D
 
No shoot there I was... dogfighting Me-262s over Berlin in my XP-80. I had a bead on my 5th Messerschmitt of the day. Wouldn't you know it, the crew chief forgot to tighten the gas cap and all the fuel leaked out in the middle of a loop-de-loop. The starving turbine flamed out so I hit the old silk elevator. Unfortunately the squadron parachute rigger had removed and converted the silk canopy and sold it to hairy legged French women as stockings. The reserve was gone too; thinking quickly I grabbed my trusty model of 1991 automatic pistol out of its M7 holster. I fired down several times between my feet. The .45 rounds blew a large hole through the rubble and straight into what looked like an underground bunker. A scared mustachioed face peered cautiously up through the smoking crater at me. In the blink of an eye I plunged through the monstrous hole and landed on something soft and squishy. Fortunately it was only Goebbels. Boredom set in while waiting for the Navy SEALs to come extract me and my top-secret aircraft wreckage. Adolf and I decided to play russian roulette. You guys know how that one turned out.

True story.:cool:
 
Stratomole, I can tell that is a true story that passed the "Declass By:" date. You used XP-80 and a faker would have used the later production name of F-80.

How'd you get him to play Russian Roulette with a Luger?

Bart Noir
 
Ya know, I spent $5 once on an Airsoft gun and damn...it took down three 100 year oak trees in 4 seconds. It took 1 second to reset the spring for each round.

I still keep it as my bedside gun, just in case some bad guy breaks in. Though I don't have anyone lined up to replace the house wall when I fire it. Anyone on the forum good on drywall and hardiboard?

Those glowBBs are damn dangerous mini-nuclear weapons. And I'm sure caused sterility in all my pets who slept near the ammo.....and one reason it isn't my carry piece!
 
a guy I was talking to said his dad was deer hunting and "barked it." No bullet holes anywhere, just an immediately dead deer. He didn't know what kind of gun...
 
Airsoft gun and damn...it took down three 100 year oak trees in 4 seconds.
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You know, I've done the same thing with a paintball gun loaded with frozen paintballs!!! Incidentally, frozen paintballs hurt like the devil!
 
a guy I was talking to said his dad was deer hunting and "barked it." No bullet holes anywhere, just an immediately dead deer. He didn't know what kind of gun...
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Sure he's not thinking of squirrels?

I'm not saying it's true, but I've heard that you can stun a squirrel into unconciousness if you hit the brach it's hanging from. That's probably a fiction too, but at least it vaguely makes more sense than a deer.


IRT Servicemen and bad gouge: my favorite is still the Marin LCpl with a gunshow 8mm Mauser, who insisted that, were he to shoot a burglar with it in his Texas apartment, he would be charged under the Geneva Convention for "using a cartridge in excess of 7.62 on a human target". The knucklehead was dead serious.

-MV
 
A buddy adamantly insists that the ballistic tip 30-06 rounds he uses in his rifle leave baseball sized holes in deer.
 
A buddy adamantly insists that the ballistic tip 30-06 rounds he uses in his rifle leave baseball sized holes in deer.
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I'm not joking here- I've personally seen .303British (Winchester Super X 180gr Powerpoint) leave an exit wound the size of my fist in the side of a deer's head. My Grandpa said he shot one through the vitals with that same loading and it did the same thing. That said, while ballistic tips are supposed to be among the "latestgreatestwhizbangwhatever" and they are said to be effective, I don't believe they'll do anything a Powerpoint or CoreLokt or Hornady SP won't do. What makes the exit wound the size it is ain't the bullet itself nearly so much as the energy transferred from the bullet into the deer. Speed and bullet weight adding up kinetic energy. They don't make a magic bullet. It's just physics.
 
I'm not saying it's true, but I've heard that you can stun a squirrel into unconciousness if you hit the brach it's hanging from. That's probably a fiction too, but at least it vaguely makes more sense than a deer.
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This is true. I was hunting with a guy who was very proud of himself after "barking" a squirrel. He picked it up and put it in the back pocket of his coveralls. Everything went well untill the squirrel came to and bit the heck out of his @ss! I, being the compassionate person that I am, was laughing so hard I wasn't much help. He did manage to kill it and it tested negative for rabies.
 
Hasn't all Army greenhorns been told to go look for a box of grid squares and batteries for chem-lights?
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Don't forget the keys to the drop zone, an exhaust sample from the Stryker, blinker fluid, blank firing adapters for the Mk 19, and a PRC-E8, and I know there are more that'll come to me in a while.
 
Hasn't all Army greenhorns been told to go look for a box of grid squares and batteries for chem-lights?

How about sending them to tell the platoon sergeant that the "PRC E-7" Doesn't work and hasn't work since it got here? Wow, that was a lot of pushups.

My personal favorite, being in a mech unit - Blackout Drive Fluid. You get it from maintenance in the motorpool.
 
Prop-wash comes to mind. Or something about sending somebody to the GnnySgt on the pretense that he has a tube of slack in his locker and tellin' 'em to tell him he needs the Gunny to cut him (holding up thumb and index finger) "this much slack".
 
Fantasy

Servicemen in general, and Marines in particular, often take delight in blowin' smoke up the skirts of the uninitiated.

Example:

"They threw a whole battalion at us! We were surrounded...about to be overrun! I picked up a minigun from a downed Cobra and opened up on'em!
Killed about a thousand, but they kept comin'! I ran outta ammo...so I went for my pistol! I only had two clips for it, but I knew what I had to do!" (pant pant)

"OH MY GOD!!! WHAT HAPPENED???"

"I got killed!"
 
I got fooled in basic - my corporal told me to go get Japanese racing air for the sergeant's truck tires. Sheesh - whaddid I know about cars? Pfffft :eek:
 
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AndyC! ROFLMAO! Not gun-related, but that reminds me of a gal that I once knew. Had a new car that was due for the first service at the dealership. I knew the service manager, and told her to make sure to tell him
to change the air in her tires, 'cause stale air would cause'em to get flat spots
if the car sat in one place for more than 24 hours.:evil:

She bought it...

Called me later that day and cussed me slap out.:D
 
Its a documented fact, thats why the guys who operate the M2s have to have buckets next to them to catch all their limbs.
 
Servicemen in general, and Marines in particular, often take delight in blowin' smoke up the skirts of the uninitiated.

Example:

"They threw a whole battalion at us! We were surrounded...about to be overrun! I picked up a minigun from a downed Cobra and opened up on'em!
Killed about a thousand, but they kept comin'! I ran outta ammo...so I went for my pistol! I only had two clips for it, but I knew what I had to do!" (pant pant)

"OH MY GOD!!! WHAT HAPPENED???"

"I got killed!"
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That reminds me of something I saw on the History Channel about India Company USMC invading Iraq in March 03. After several operations without ever firing his weapon, one Marine brags about the stories he is going to make up to tell his friends back home, about picking up the Ma Deuce and the Mk 19 and using them. I thought that was pretty funny. That and the part where it shows the Marines all dug in next to a road throwing pebbles in mind numbing bordom when one Marine comments that they should make a war move that is 6 hours long with 15 minutes of fight scene, cause that is what war is--the rest is throwing pebbles.
 
It has a scope on it that you just set the distance and it adjusts for current windage and even moisture in the air.
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He was probably refering to the .408 cheytac. The website has a pic of it with a wind meter. I think you can set the scope for wind drift if i recall. Somthing about a computer and all, eh, dunno.
 
...so I went for my pistol! I only had two clips for it
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There's his problem, he didn't have a single magazine for that pistol. Had he been carrying a magazine, he might have been able to fight them Japanese commie bastards clear back to the Berlin wall! :D
 
my marine friend was saying that if a 50 cal round was fired towards me and missed by 3 feet away... the velocity of the round would still rip my arm off.

prolly not, but if you are standing in front of a hard (rock) backstop the shards of rock will cut you in half.
 
stratomole said:
No shoot there I was... dogfighting Me-262s over Berlin in my XP-80. I had a bead on my 5th Messerschmitt of the day. Wouldn't you know it, the crew chief forgot to tighten the gas cap and all the fuel leaked out in the middle of a loop-de-loop. The starving turbine flamed out so I hit the old silk elevator. Unfortunately the squadron parachute rigger had removed and converted the silk canopy and sold it to hairy legged French women as stockings. The reserve was gone too; thinking quickly I grabbed my trusty model of 1991 automatic pistol out of its M7 holster. I fired down several times between my feet. The .45 rounds blew a large hole through the rubble and straight into what looked like an underground bunker. A scared mustachioed face peered cautiously up through the smoking crater at me. In the blink of an eye I plunged through the monstrous hole and landed on something soft and squishy. Fortunately it was only Goebbels. Boredom set in while waiting for the Navy SEALs to come extract me and my top-secret aircraft wreckage. Adolf and I decided to play russian roulette. You guys know how that one turned out.True story.
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Stratomole, the problem is you couldn't have been extracted by Navy Seals; they didn't exist until 18 years after WW2 ended.
:p :D ;) :rolleyes:
 
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