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I Bought My First .50 calibre Assault Rifle Today!

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
I've never owned a .50 cal before but it seemed interesting and I had the money so I figured what the hell I'll buy it. I can play with it for a while and in a few years maybe make a few extra bucks on my investment or trade it for whatever strikes my fancy at the time.
Thoughts?

Excusing myself from this conversation. You Boys have fun.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
I have seen them. I window shop the web a lot. Ambitious, but with limited resources.

I always wanted one of these for squirrels.

As an experience squirrel hunter I would have to say that that might be a tad too much gun for squirrel. You would never know if you actually hit the squirrel. No, I take that back. If you find the squirrel after the shot you clearly missed.
 

Dan From Smithville

What's up Doc?
Staff member
Premium Member
Just kill and nail one up on your barn roof, squirrels won't bother you for about a year, crows are the same. It is a fact
(whispers in your ear.... Nazi)
It is a fact that there were no Nazi bunnies. Bunnies were all allied underground.

I used to like to go crow hunting.
 

Stanyon

WWMRD?
Why would you want to do that? Squirrel are right tasty if cooked correctly.

I agree, it always seemed a waste of meat and a life, out of one of a hundred it seemed a small sacrifice (except to the individual animal in question!)
Soak them in salted milk for a day, then slightly braise them and then put them in a crockpot with mushroom soup undiluited, throw some potatoes and green onions in for good measure and include some greens on the side.
Tasty meal for sure!
 

74x12

Well-Known Member
I've never owned a .50 cal before but it seemed interesting and I had the money so I figured what the hell I'll buy it. I can play with it for a while and in a few years maybe make a few extra bucks on my investment or trade it for whatever strikes my fancy at the time.
Thoughts?
what's it called?
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I've never owned a .50 cal before but it seemed interesting and I had the money so I figured what the hell I'll buy it. I can play with it for a while and in a few years maybe make a few extra bucks on my investment or trade it for whatever strikes my fancy at the time.
Thoughts?
I wish I still had my AR-15. The real one not the style type . That was way back in the 80s before all this Assault Rifle crap came out. I was still in the military at the time where you could walk through the airport with your weapon to check it in at baggage.

I'm probably going to be purchasing a bolt-action rifle or a breech load shotgun in the future. My wife is okay with it it's my late father-in-law was a military man and guns were not unfamiliar. She likes the idea. I would personally love to have a classic Winchester repeater or a World War 2 Garand because I find vintage weapons pretty fascinating and nostalgic. There's always something to be said for a single shot shotgun too.

I have a Hazmat and a TWIC card so getting a gun shouldnt be any type of problem as the background checks are the same.

Have a lot of safe fun shooting the rifle. .50 cals are really nice for big game and the variety of targets you could shoot can tickle the imagination. You ought to find a gun club and have a lot of fun and socialize with buddies at the range . Shooting competitions are a blast. Pun intended. *Grin*

I don't know why , but watermelons are pretty popular these days. *Grin* .
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
I like squirrel. Not as much as rabbit, but it is still pretty good eatin'.
Never had rabbit But for a while on our farm we had beagles They did not need a gun to catch a rabbit. We had a half a mile driveway to walk down to catch the school bus. The beagles would follow us for the first half until we hit a patch of scrub woods. They would then take off and do their own thing. Occasionally we would find tufts of rabbit hair on the gravel, and once, a whole rear leg. For some reason I am pretty sure that one did not get away.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
,50 cal ? Gads. Since you are rich, would you please buy me a Barrett .50 cal rifle for Christmas ? I would love being able to pop targets at a mile and a half.

I forgot about the sniper club. *Grin* I'm still miffed at not being able to qualify as expert whenever qualifications came up. I was one shot away from it, one shot!!!! Stuck forever offically as a sharpshooter. Oh well.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
At least you live somewhere with the space to shoot one. I was watching a show the other day where they were shooting specialty, armor piercing rounds that ran up to $150 a round. You can put a lovely hole in a railroad rail with them though.
My shoulder is hurting thinking about it.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Hmmmm, recreation is play. Hunting is play, defensive shooting contests are play, plinking is play.

Lighten up. I have a pistol and short rifle range on my property, I play with my guns out there all the time.
One thing I never did was fire a musket. I've always wanted to. It's got to be a lot of fun to be dressed in Period costume And letting loose with one of those things.
At least it gives me time to think about if I want to be a Yankee or Confederate, or Blue coat or a Red coat at a reenactors Club.
 
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