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Member Section => NFA Items => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on September 13, 2016, 02:40:31 PM

Title: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 13, 2016, 02:40:31 PM

Isn't that cute.

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: TAB on September 13, 2016, 03:05:02 PM

I saw that this morning...   



a 50 is not a destructive device... that sure as hell is   ;D

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 13, 2016, 03:18:52 PM

That's the Boer "Pom Pom " that Kipling talks about in the Boer war.
Reading those old books about the Boer war, India, and the Sudan I often run across references to "pom pom's", or Maxim Nordenfeldt's,or "Maxim 1pounders".
But I never saw a picture that gave decent perspective of the size of them.
Gives a WHOLE new meaning to,

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.”

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: TAB on September 13, 2016, 06:32:12 PM

its also nfa exempt...

hey tom if i send you a set of plans can you make some parts for me?


 ;D



yeah like i could afford it... hell i could not even afford to feed it, let alone buy it.

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: Solus on September 13, 2016, 06:53:18 PM

I'm gonna need a bigger EDC  holster   ;D ;D

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: mkm on September 13, 2016, 10:56:11 PM

We need a picture, folks. I'm curious.

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 14, 2016, 05:56:06 AM

Quote from: mkm on September 13, 2016, 10:56:11 PM

We need a picture, folks. I'm curious.

Watch the video, or go to Forgotten weapons on youtube, facebook or full30


Sorry TAB, I don't have access to machines anymore. But how is it NFA exempt beyond the guts being missing in that particular one ?

Kind of ironic to consider it's original supporting rifle was the Martini Henry.

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: PegLeg45 on September 14, 2016, 11:43:26 AM

Quote from: mkm on September 13, 2016, 10:56:11 PM

We need a picture, folks. I'm curious.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/WWI-German-37_mm_Maxim-001.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/QF1pounderGunIWMApril2008.jpg/300px-QF1pounderGunIWMApril2008.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/AustralianTroopsWithQF1pounderBoerWar.jpg)

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: mkm on September 14, 2016, 01:02:01 PM

Thanks Pegleg! That thing is impressive.

Tom, it must be because I'm viewing it on my phone, but I don't see a video or any other links. That's why I was curious.

Title: Re: So, You bought a .50 BMG ?
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 14, 2016, 02:43:42 PM

ahhh.