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Unless somebody's pulled the string on a 6" or bigger aboard ship, I think we have our Big Bore Champ right here.5"/38 USS Macon (CA-132) in 1958. Most fun you can have with your cloths on.
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Unless somebody's pulled the string on a 6" or bigger aboard ship, I think we have our Big Bore Champ right here.5"/38 USS Macon (CA-132) in 1958. Most fun you can have with your cloths on.
I was able to call in for navel gunfire support from the USS Iowa. The shells were so powerful that they actually changed the landscape! New topographical maps had to be drawn. There were no trees, hills, monkeys or Communists left. One follower of Ho Chi Min was found sitting upright in a chair, deader than a nit, with his ear drums blown out and his eyeballs hanging out of the sockets. The Corpsman said that it was the worst concussive shock he'd ever seen. The explosions were huge. It was the most devastating show of gunfire I've ever seen. Good for the Navy!Unless somebody's pulled the string on a 6" or bigger aboard ship, I think we have our Big Bore Champ right here.
Stomper before you get all he-man for that particular my 4'11" tall Daughter while in her Navy Corpsman Training spent a day in the field firing one of those with the Marines she was training with.Mk19 grenade launcher was pretty spicey.
I happen to love .410 shotguns. I've never had much luck wing shooting but I suspect that it's mostly me.Used a Mossberg bolt action .410 shotgun for doves when I was about 12 yo. It made me an excellent wing shot.
Stomper before you get all he-man for that particular my 4'11" tall Daughter while in her Navy Corpsman Training spent a day in the field firing one of those with the Marines she was training with.
To this day years later hardly a family gathering goes by that the Daughter (8 years US NAVY as a Corpsman including time in Iraq) and my son (US NAVY 10 years as an ET on board multiple ships) argue which is the more impressive gun the daughters M19 or the Quad .50 mount my son fired during anti mine exercises.
I learned to shoot with a H&R single shot 410 when I was 10 yrs old shooting starlings.
Some Army guys but a couple of "gun trucks" using quad fifties. Can you imagine the cost of the ammo that those dudes put through those guns?Wow!Stomper before you get all he-man for that particular my 4'11" tall Daughter while in her Navy Corpsman Training spent a day in the field firing one of those with the Marines she was training with.
To this day years later hardly a family gathering goes by that the Daughter (8 years US NAVY as a Corpsman including time in Iraq) and my son (US NAVY 10 years as an ET on board multiple ships) argue which is the more impressive gun the daughters M19 or the Quad .50 mount my son fired during anti mine exercises.
.45 caliber and .50 caliber muskets built by Mr. Clyde Wherry of Multnomah Muzzleloaders.
During the Gulf War I was able to witness the after effects of the Wisconsin's fire on Iraqi Positions and while it most assuredly left one in awe, nothing left me as dumbstruck as seeing how nasty a job the A6's and AH64 Apache's did on all those Iraqi soldiers who were flash fried when their convoy's were trying to head back into Iraq were caught on the Highway of Death .
The B52 after effects on their dug in fighting positions were truly humbling to witness as well. The bombs fell from so high up those poor SOB's never knew there were planes in the air .
The death toll from those B-52 bombings have never been released. I'm guessing that the numbers would be staggering.During the Gulf War I was able to witness the after effects of the Wisconsin's fire on Iraqi Positions and while it most assuredly left one in awe, nothing left me as dumbstruck as seeing how nasty a job the A6's and AH64 Apache's did on all those Iraqi soldiers who were flash fried when their convoy's were trying to head back into Iraq were caught on the Highway of Death .
The B52 after effects on their dug in fighting positions were truly humbling to witness as well. The bombs fell from so high up those poor SOB's never knew there were planes in the air .
Are you talking about a K98 Mauser that was originally chambered in 30.06 instead of 8MM?a .30.06 Mauser probably. A mauser isn't unusual, but that it was a military Mauser and not converted at any point (it was built in .30-06 by FN) isn't something most people think of.
The person at the gun shop doing the transfer thought it was just a converted Mauser when I said it was .30-06.
A mauser that FN made for the Colombians.Are you talking about a K98 Mauser that was originally chambered in 30.06 instead of 8MM?
Wow! That's impressive. I had no idea that such a rifle was ever made by Mauser!A mauser that FN made for the Colombians.