Good eye Zipp. You must do that "what's different in these photos?" thing a lot. I also noticed that the rivet in the handle just behind the trigger is round on the mk3 and on the 2245 it is D shaped.

I'll take them both. Can I get them gift wrapped?

Thats Prolly the Mag relese

Sorry to be a Gun nazi , But ya Knows what ya Knows

Ahh, I don't know crap. I thought that's what Merc had said it was, but I might have gotten addled at the Ruger website.

Easy to do , they gots Lots of goodys
I have a single six , single action .22lr with a .22 wmr cylinder ,
it is an OUTSTANDING shooter , so comfy , so accurate
Oh and a .44 mag leveraction , i callz it THUMPER !!!

Ya don't need a bull barrel if ya make the first shot count. :p:

Yea, I own a short action 300 win mag, basically a necked down 300 win mag. A Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation gun. I love it. I have never shot anything with it. It was more of a dream gun. My dream was always to go on an elk hunk. So I bought the gun on a whim. I put a $600 scope on a $800 gun. I am sure it can do the job but it sits in the gun safe waiting for the day. Anyway, the rounds are about $38 a box of 20. That was my only point. Cheers.

Merc, a guy I met the other week at Physical Therapy just left for an Elk hunt. I need to find out what business he's in.

Man, a guided hunt is expensive. $3500 to $5000 for a hunt. I will do one someday.

A guy at work today (a physical therapist, coincidentally) was having a going away party--he is moving to Alaska. We got to talking about manly man stuff and he told me about a local guy he knows who makes traditional longbows. I would love to get a traditional English longbow. Welsh archers could kill a combatant in full plate armor from 60 yards. With the Welsh archers, the English were known to defeat forces of ten times their size.

Shot placement.

But hey, if you miss a charging Grizzly than what?

I never go into the back country without a gun. Shit, I don't go to downtown Atlanta without one either.

I believe at one point every English male was required to practice archery on Sundays. So, yeah. Shot placement.

Only to kill the Welsh.

This guy has a whole series of photos and how to descriptions. He's made a lot of these.
http://poorfolkbows.com/elb.htm

I could totally do that!

the violin... not so much. but very very cool.

Add about $8000-$10,000, for a lot of places. For the biguns anyway.

You can do it yourself for a lot less in Eastern KY. Largest herd east of the Mississippi.

:D

ETA: And we got a few biguns, nothing like AZ or NM, though...

♫ ♪ Moving to Montana soon, Gonna be an Elk Hunt Ranch tycoon... ♪ ♫

http://tu.tv/videos/switchblade-pelicula or

i bet ya could Pop a Chuck with That !!

Go fast, turn left.

Shakedown run, I presume.

Offer them a no-fee card with $5,000 credit, 0% interest on balance transfers, and a free picnic cooler. That will win them back.

That would only work if it is a .... bear market.



Thank you ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all week...

Stop, I can't bear it.

I smell trouble bruin, and I wouldn't want to polarise opinions or panda* to your grizzliness, so I'll black off now.



* I know. Shush.

I think that last volley put you on the "No Fly" list.

So, I've been getting into this martial/projectile frame of mind lately. Not sure what it is, last summer it was boat fever which I thankfully recovered from before suffering any lasting damage.

The other night I watched some sort of discovery channel thing about paleo/neo lithic weapons and such. So I figured that a fun thing to tinker with as part of my ongoing efforts at earning my black belt in procrastination, would be making some of these things.

Today I made a simple sling out of a scrap of leather and some 4mm climbing cord. I went out into the backyard and very gently, with my better shoulder, shot a walnut sized stone all the way across my yard, my neighbor's yard and up onto her corrugated steel roof. The fucking thing FLEW and when it hit it sounded like the hammers of hell. Glad no one lives there and glad I didn't put out a window. That would have sucked.

Check out this guy from Spain. the second video he is slinging a Cestros, it looks like a crossbow bolt.

Idle hands and all that...


http://perso.wanadoo.es/s915415926/c...ueno%20001.jpg

Very cool.

Special sling glandes with aerophonic properties.They are physically based on bull-roarer acoustics.




From wikipedia:
:rotflol:

some things never change...

Holy shit, that looked like it was made out of poured lead shot. That would frigging hurt.

On this show I saw, they measured the force of a 1 oz chunk of lead thrown from a sling at something like 95 mph. Then they shot it at a ballistics dummy skull and it was buried about 3 inches inside. I'll say it would hurt.

And if you just sharpened the edges slightly it should do the trick. My problem would be actually hitting the target I was aiming at.

I guess they put their initials on them so they would know who to go after if you actually got hit by one.

"Let me see that thing! Hell, that hurt."

"Oh, that was thrown by Ralph, he's toast." :lol:

Just for grins I ran some numbers using the Taylor Knock Out Factor formula comparing the .308, .22LR standard velocity, and a one ounce lead ball .75" dia. shot at an average speed of 75mph or 109fps

.308 = TKO of 18
.22 = TKO of 1
1oz sling = TKO of 5

But as you say, actually hitting the target would be a prerequisite.

Here's the chart form the article on TKO:

Cool chart. Another reason that LEO's changed to the .40 S&W I would guess. Interesting also the power of the 45-70. I always have kept that on my short list of guns to get next.

http://www.marlinfirearms.com/images...zoom_1895G.jpg

Years ago when I was a Young Sprat , a Friends Grand dad Broke out his trap door spring field in .45-70, he Boomed with it a few times , then asked if we wanted to , my friend said NOOOOO !! So Of corse I HAD to give it a try , that damn thing Kicked SOO Hard it sat me down and left my shoulder bruised for a week !!!
I have a smaller version of Pretty much the same rifle in .44 mag , Wounderfull Little Boomer !!!

M109 Paladin.

Big boomer.

If you wake up to this...you are NOT going to have a good day.

I disagree Grav.

If you wake up to this it's because you're the publicity officer for several metric craptons of whoopass, and it's likely gonna be a good day **for you**. The people the people in the picture are looking towards--they're not gonna have a good day.

:D

I used this for a wallpaper for a while.

Yes those are VERRRRRY Fun to shoot , Specialy from a M79

THUMP !!!

What's that attached to the front of the trigger guard?

that's a release so in Arctic conditions you can toggle the trigger guard out of the so you can shoot with gloves on

very cool, very interesting. the stock looks like it's upside down from the grip back.

V thats so when you have to ARCH a shot in ( Notice the rear sight , how tall it is )
the recoil ( Witch Aint that bad , 12ga ish ) still goes to your sholder

I read a passage from a war correspondent in Vietnam, at the battle of Khe Sahn. The VC/NLF/Enemy whatevers had attacked at night, one of them was wounded and screaming about 150 metres outside the perimeter.

Some Texas-type stolls up to near the reporter. He is wearing a low-slung holster on his hip with a cut down grenade lancher - stock removed, probably barrel shortened and such. He listens in the dark for a while, draws the launcher, loads, balances it on his left forearm, fires once ... boom ... screams stop.

The USA may or may not win the war, but they're usually leaders in the badass-ness competition.

I watched a passage from Apocalypse Now, at the bridge Do Long:

This movie is overflowing with USA bad-assery.

Thank you sir.

I got to shoot against a First Sgt that was a Nam Vet , He was GOOOD !!!
we Both ( at 100 or so yards) were Killing a Firdge with Spotter rounds ( White Puff of Powder when it hits ) ,
then he got a gleem in his Eye and handed me some HE (High Explosive )rounds ,
he said Load up and wait for the command ,
we Blasted that Poor fridge to LITTLE Bitty Bits !!!!

Zip, you reminded me of this video.

Highlights: "Run motherfucker!!" & "Holee Sheeeeeittt!!!"

Grav , that looks like fun ,
once when we were at the Stumps ( 29 Palms) doing a Big Demo shoot we had a 150lb tank mine left that needed to be Sploded ,
we took the Pressure fuse out of it ,
Put in a Blasting cap with a LONG wire ,
then we put a 55 gallon steel drum on top and filled it with rocks ,
backed WAAAAY Off and set that Byotch off ,
BOOOOOOOOM !!!!!!!!
the drum came down a While Later ( whell parts of it at Least )
Funny enough no rocks though

I don't care, as long as he reaches out there and kills the mother fuker..... Well done. The liberal side of Americans with Disabilities Act should be proud. If they are not it exposes their real feelings ...........

Word.

:lol2:

Are you telling me that a guy with a below the knee amputation can deployed on active duty? Or am I reading too much into this?

Nope, they are deploying select members of SOF back to theater. They have put so much money into training and making these guys good at what they do they are letting them go back on AD. Depending on your specialty they will let you stay and make you non-deployable. I knew a Doc on AD who had a partial arm amputation that stayed on AD to retirement, he was an endocrinologist.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-w...utee-soldiers/

Fuckin' A.

So, if a chap loses a foot to a landmine, and gets a good replacement, and goes back on active duty, and gets wounded in his artificial foot ... does he get another purple heart? Is it logged as equipment damage?

If he damages the foot, is it damaging military property or a self-inflicted wound?

Don't mind me, just being silly.