from a 12 gauge to a Ma Duece .50 - Page 5

Jimbuna · 12-07-20, 08:30 AM

Would be far better if the sound worked

Aktungbby · 01-12-21, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Would be far better if the sound worked

My ol' Cessna 172 never sounded this good! I'd never seen a Tiger shark before!

nikimcbee · 01-12-21, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

^Too bad I can't conveniently use that in a Diablo 12Gauge pistol: my backup to a pair of my trusty CivilWar re-enacting Colt Navy .36's

You do re-enacting? I used to. I have a Colt Navy .44 and a Springfield 1864 musket.

Aktungbby · 01-12-21, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

You do re-enacting? I used to. I have a Colt Navy .44 and a Springfield 1864 musket.

Nice! I shoot a Lyman .36 Navy and have an additional Uberti .36 Navy, boxed, with all apurtenances. My rifle is the British two-band Parker Hale Enfield .577 minie-ball used at Balaclava. I also have original Snyder bayonets for same!! It has real rifling as opposed to most lesser re-enactment copies and I (at age 70) can hold my own )in competitions...but for my one rival a Sgt. who owns a three-band Parker-Hale with a longer barrel which, at 200 yards, gives a flatter flight advantage to the typical moonbeam arc trajectory of the hollow cannelured round. The ladder sight is not used below 300 yards.

Aktungbby · 02-19-21, 08:30 PM

https://www.wired.com/story/how-esca...ken-submarine/

Aktungbby · 06-01-21, 12:25 PM

August · 06-01-21, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

https://www.wired.com/story/how-esca...ken-submarine/

That was a really interesting article. Thanks for posting.

Aktungbby · 09-27-21, 01:50 PM

em2nought · 09-27-21, 06:02 PM

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Maybe American citizens should be afraid of A-10s now that our military is "woke".

Aktungbby · 11-01-21, 11:27 PM

https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-maps

tmccarthy · 11-02-21, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Where's the gun news?

Show me the beef

Yes, please. What's going on with the Open Carry in Texas? I don't really watch the news anymore but I cruise over headlines occasionally and hear stuff other places.

I have not heard a single word the re Open Carry since the week it started. ( and when is it coming to California?

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tmccarthy · 11-04-21, 08:08 PM

Aktungbby · 11-28-21, 01:17 PM

These P3 Orions used to take off over my Mt View apartment from Moffit NAS; now i see what they were up to...

Aktungbby · 12-26-21, 03:17 PM

https://www.businessinsider.com/navi...ng-wwii-2021-8

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Submarines showed early in their existence that they could have an outsize impact in major wars.

They were so effective that major naval powers set out to build different kinds of submarines for different missions. The Japanese even attempted to create dedicated submarine aircraft carriers.

These radical submarine designs had wide appeal but ultimately had limited utility, especially cruiser submarines.

Designed in the inter-war period, these massive subs relied just as much on large guns and turrets as they did on torpedoes. Cruiser submarines trace their origin to two models of the Imperial German Navy during World War I: the Type 151 class, which had seven subs, and the Type 139 class, which had three.

Both types had torpedo tubes — two on the Type 151s, which had storage for 18 torpedoes, and six on the Type 139s, which could store 24 torpedoes — but their primary armament were two massive 5.9-inch deck guns normally fitted on surface warships, which were located in front of and behind the coning tower.

Their massive size and displacement — about 200 feet to 300 feet long and over 2,000 tons submerged — allowed them to sail much farther than smaller submarines and without assistance.

Type 151 and 139 boats operated in the waters off the Azores, Africa, and even the East Coast of the US, sinking dozens of ships. One Type-151 boat, U-156, became the first foreign warship to shell the continental US in 70 years when it fired on a Cape Cod town in July 1918.

<U-155, a Type U-151 U-boat, in London after World War I. https://uboat.net/wwi/types/?type=U+151

<U151- captured; in French port ca: 1920. From 1917 until the Armistice in November 1918 she was part of the U-Kreuzer Flotilla, and was responsible for 34 ships sunk (88,395 GRT) and 7 ships damaged (13,267 GRT and 1,025 tons). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-151

Platapus · 12-26-21, 03:57 PM

As an aside, I would like to play the HMS M1 in a sub sim game.

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,997 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	These P3 Orions used to take off over my Mt View apartment from Moffit NAS; now i see what they were up to... __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,362 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	As an aside, I would like to play the HMS M1 in a sub sim game. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.