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Title: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: twyacht on January 16, 2010, 04:14:37 PM
Finally made it to the Gun Club I recently joined to actually shoot.  Some other members showed up with a cooler full of Tannerite in coffee cans, an old desktop computer tower, old xerox machine, and a 50BMG! :o

Well if you hit a coffee can of Tannerite at 100 yds with a .223 it makes a nice kaboom!!!  ;D Little mushroom cloud and everything.

If you shoot a Xerox machine with a 50BMG it obliterates it. These guys were kind enough to let me send a few rounds downrange from their Barrett.

Holy smokes Batman!!!!! For those that might not know, it creates a shock wave that can be felt 10 feet away that shakes through your whole body. Not as bad if your the one firing. But all I can say is WOW!!!!! What a great chance to shoot one.
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/DSCF1521.jpg)

I think I hate billt again,.... ;)

Great day,...... had a chance to give bowling pins HELL.  Let the Sig556 rock and roll, get some G21 time in, and meet some great folks. Weather was warm and breezy. If I win the Powerball, I'm getting two 50's... ::)






Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: dipisc on January 16, 2010, 04:39:24 PM
Glad you enjoyed the 50BMG. I had the same offer at a local range 2 - 3 weeks ago and declined for the reason of WEAK disipine. Had I shot that 50, I would have wanted one soooooo bad that I would have went to the Bank for a loan. In the past, I dreamed of having one. I want one still. To have shot that 50 would have sent me over the line.

I currently am looking at the 2010 Mustang GT..........So many toy's and not enough money is the problem here.
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: JSC3ATLCSO on January 16, 2010, 04:42:37 PM
Quote from: dipisc on January 16, 2010, 04:39:24 PM
Glad you enjoyed the 50BMG. I had the same offer at a local range 2 - 3 weeks ago and declined for the reason of WEAK disipine. Had I shot that 50, I would have wanted one soooooo bad that I would have went to the Bank for a loan. In the past, I dreamed of having one. I want one still. To have shot that 50 would have sent me over the line.

I currently am looking at the 2010 Mustang GT..........So many toy's and not enough money is the problem here.

+1

A couple of years ago I had the chance to fire an M14.  I didn't because I knew that would just make me want it even more.  I finally have my M1a on order so soon I'll be able to fullfill that need.
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: Fatman on January 16, 2010, 04:55:34 PM
Cool!  A bank teller I know is dating a PO that has one.  They go out and shoot appliances with it. She's on to something.

I gotta find a girl that has one so I can date her...
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: twyacht on January 16, 2010, 05:33:06 PM
Quote from: Fatman on January 16, 2010, 04:55:34 PM
Cool!  A bank teller I know is dating a PO that has one.  They go out and shoot appliances with it. She's on to something.

I gotta find a girl that has one so I can date her...

You find a girl that owns one, and you become the best husband you can be!!! ;D

And I was like Wil Smith in Independence Day when he was flying the alien fighter....

"I HAVE GOT TO GET ONE OF THESE!!!!"

Of course I than would be single again,..... :-\
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 16, 2010, 06:10:39 PM
 And the problem is ?  ???

           ;D
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: ratcatcher55 on January 16, 2010, 06:20:02 PM
Quote from: twyacht on January 16, 2010, 05:33:06 PM
You find a girl that owns one, and you become the best husband you can be!!! ;D

And I was like Wil Smith in Independence Day when he was flying the alien fighter....

"I HAVE GOT TO GET ONE OF THESE!!!!"

Of course I than would be single again,..... :-\

A buddy's girlfriend bought him a Barrett for Christmas acouple of years ago followed by a Garand the next year. She's cute as a bug, smart and a massage therapist.
Some people live right.
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: twyacht on January 16, 2010, 07:10:36 PM
I figure I can sell my 2002 Nissan Xterra, get an older vehicle that will run after an EMP, ie,..early-mid seventies CJ-5 or7. Old F100, Scout International...etc,...

With the money left over,......Hmmmmmmmmmm......

Quote from: tombogan03884 on January 16, 2010, 06:10:39 PM
And the problem is ?  ???

           ;D

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/man-thinking.jpg)

I'm still thinking.... ::)

Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: PegLeg45 on January 16, 2010, 08:15:02 PM
Quote
Holy smokes Batman!!!!! For those that might not know, it creates a shock wave that can be felt 10 feet away that shakes through your whole body. Not as bad if your the one firing. But all I can say is WOW!!!!! What a great chance to shoot one.

They will also vibrate fluorescent bulbs out of their sockets up under the range shelter with the shock wave.........sometimes......  :o


That grin on yer face looks like the grin on a sailor with a 'free ride' pass at a whorehouse.   ;D
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: Timothy on January 16, 2010, 08:21:29 PM
I do hope the Wayfarers were just for the photo op Tom!   8)

Safety first young man!    ;)

Have fun, that would be something I wouldn't mind pressing a trigger on....
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: deepwater on January 16, 2010, 08:24:02 PM
Quote from: PegLeg45 on January 16, 2010, 08:15:02 PM
They will also vibrate fluorescent bulbs out of their sockets up under the range shelter with the shock wave.........sometimes......  :o


That grin on yer face looks like the grin on a sailor with a 'free ride' pass at a whorehouse.   ;D
:D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D
you mean they actually exist?!!!!!! MAN!!! what I've been missin' out on!
 ;D
deepwater
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: PegLeg45 on January 16, 2010, 08:28:02 PM
Quote from: deepwater on January 16, 2010, 08:24:02 PM
:D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D
you mean they actually exist?!!!!!! MAN!!! what I've been missin' out on!
 ;D
deepwater


It all depends on your connections.     ;D
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: twyacht on January 16, 2010, 08:33:52 PM
Quote from: Timothy on January 16, 2010, 08:21:29 PM
I do hope the Wayfarers were just for the photo op Tom!   8)

Safety first young man!    ;)

Have fun, that would be something I wouldn't mind pressing a trigger on....

My safety/shooting Beretta Shooting Shields (35 bucks from Midway), went in my pocket after my shooting,(for the photo), had to put the Costa Del Mar Wayfarers back on, cause the "shootin' shields" make me look kinda like a dork, even more so,.... ::)

Plus they had to pry me off the rifle,.......

Like Chris Matthews and BHO, I got a "tingle" up my leg shootin' that thing.... 8)

I'd like the link to the "free ride" pass please.... :-*
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: Solus on January 17, 2010, 07:51:41 AM
Quote from: ratcatcher55 on January 16, 2010, 06:20:02 PM
A buddy's girlfriend bought him a Barrett for Christmas acouple of years ago followed by a Garand the next year. She's cute as a bug, smart and a massage therapist.
Some people live right.


it wasn't   billt, was it?
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: ratcatcher55 on January 17, 2010, 12:01:31 PM
Quote from: Solus on January 17, 2010, 07:51:41 AM

it wasn't   billt, was it?

No. I hate him too! ;D
Title: Re: Range Day Included A Great 50 Caliber Treat!
Post by: m25operator on January 17, 2010, 04:42:37 PM
Good for you TW, those rearward angled ports on the muzzle brake are a real bitch for bystanders, you are correct, get behind the shooter, not to the left or right, the percussion is awesome. I warned a young lady at a class 3 shoot, that the .50 was about to be shot, and she would be better served to move her lounge chair, back behind the enclosed trailer, 1 shot later, she more than agreed. ;D