Ah, the good old days...
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From 1961
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LVSteve
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Ah, the WWII standard British recoil tolerance test device.
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Both were/are big but didnt Tbolt use a 20mm???
THE PILGRIM
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vonn
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They would make an awesome pig �� gun!
Things like this turn up occasionally. My honorary nephew, a firearms law attorney, found a Lahti 20mm anti-tank gun in an estate. For the last several years he displayed it at his booth in the Outdoors Show in Harrisburg.
LoboGunLeather
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No toll-free order number and they don't take VISA, MasterCard, or PayPal. How can they stay in business?
I fired one of those right after the Texas tower incident. I was a LEO and a civilian friend of mine who owned one said it would be available to the department if it was ever needed.
I foolishly laid in a gravel pit to shoot it.
The road rash from sliding backwards from the recoil went away in a few days.����
I foolishly laid in a gravel pit to shoot it.
The road rash from sliding backwards from the recoil went away in a few days.����
Can it handle a +p round?
Reminds me of this story:
From Cartridges of the World, 11th Ed., p.224
Around 1960, Fred Barnes (of Barnes Bullet fame) built himself a 475 A&M-chambered rifle, based on a sporterized Enfield action. With its open sights that rifle weighed no more than 8 pounds. Being Fred Barnes, his initial handloading effort combined stiff charges of IMR 3031 behind his 600-grain bullets***. He, friends, and a small group of well-wishers went to an informal shooting range near Grand Junction, Colo. Fred sat down on the pea gravel of the parking area and crossed his legs to fire from the sitting position. He took dead aim at the base of a small juniper tree, which was tenuously hanging on at the top edge of a roadway cutbank.
When Fred pulled the trigger, everyone was watching for the impact. The shot went low. The tree was summarily uprooted! All watchers cheered as the tree fell, then, as a group, they looked around to find what Barnes' reaction might be. There he was, located several feet behind his original position, lying on his back, arms outstretched, holding the rifle above his head. Dust from the muzzle blast and his ignoble recoil-induced slide (he had absorbed well over 110 foot-pounds of energy) was still stirring when Fred asked, matter-of-factly, "Anybody want to buy a rifle?" He found no takers.
*** 600 SP | 105 gr. of 3031 | 2502 fps | 8340 FPE
Around 1960, Fred Barnes (of Barnes Bullet fame) built himself a 475 A&M-chambered rifle, based on a sporterized Enfield action. With its open sights that rifle weighed no more than 8 pounds. Being Fred Barnes, his initial handloading effort combined stiff charges of IMR 3031 behind his 600-grain bullets***. He, friends, and a small group of well-wishers went to an informal shooting range near Grand Junction, Colo. Fred sat down on the pea gravel of the parking area and crossed his legs to fire from the sitting position. He took dead aim at the base of a small juniper tree, which was tenuously hanging on at the top edge of a roadway cutbank.
When Fred pulled the trigger, everyone was watching for the impact. The shot went low. The tree was summarily uprooted! All watchers cheered as the tree fell, then, as a group, they looked around to find what Barnes' reaction might be. There he was, located several feet behind his original position, lying on his back, arms outstretched, holding the rifle above his head. Dust from the muzzle blast and his ignoble recoil-induced slide (he had absorbed well over 110 foot-pounds of energy) was still stirring when Fred asked, matter-of-factly, "Anybody want to buy a rifle?" He found no takers.
*** 600 SP | 105 gr. of 3031 | 2502 fps | 8340 FPE
Note the price of ammo. 95 cents per round.
That would have been pricey for 1961
That would have been pricey for 1961
ACORN
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Reminds of Grits Gresham visiting with Sylvan Ambrose Hart aka Buckskin Bill in Idaho.
Buckskin was going to shoot his 3 ga. Muzzle loader firing a 6oz ball for Grits.
I suspect half joking Grits asked “Do you want me to catch you?” Buckskin replied “No, just let me fall.”
After he shot it he asked Grits if he wanted to shoot it and Grits declined and asked Buckskin if he wanted to shoot it again? Buckskin said “Nope!”
Amazon has a book on Buckskin, “The Last of the Mountain Men.” Going to have to order it one day.
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Used to separate the men from the Boys
I remember my Dad had a book about gunsmithing from Brownell's IIRC, this was the 70's.
We were "gun cranks" in the book.
So gun bugs, to gun cranks, to gun nuts.
Evolution?
Probably a step up from "thag bugs/cranks/nuts"
(Edit: I just realized I got the date in the caption wrong- should be more like 10,000 BC. But since no one has noticed, I'll just leave it
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The great story about Fred Barnes and his 475 reminds me of the guy who built the 6# 375 H&H, for a safari, under the theory that he would be carrying it way more than shooting it. His theory went to all to hell when he shot it.
I am sure some gun crank bought one of those and then necked it down to 50 cal.
But here you go, a 1543 gr 20mm slug coasting along at 3396fps. Anzio Ironworks AMSD 20mm x102mm Semiautomatic Anti-Material Rifle
I am sure some gun crank bought one of those and then necked it down to 50 cal.
But here you go, a 1543 gr 20mm slug coasting along at 3396fps. Anzio Ironworks AMSD 20mm x102mm Semiautomatic Anti-Material Rifle
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deadin
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I figure it will seem like a +pqrst round.
