I Bought My First .50 calibre Assault Rifle Today!

[Twilight Hue]

View attachment 31827 This is the only picture I have of my father's old gun. When I was kid I thought this was really cool. I don't even remember what it is.

Cool!

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Goat Shawarma! I'm told that Camel is good too.

The Shawarma shop of my childhead, with, IMHO, the best shawarma anywhere, has just closed down, and now I have a craving

 

[Dan From Smithville]

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.

Really? Never had it? I would have thought that it was on most farm menus. Dogs can be pretty tough on things. I new this family at church that had a couple of dogs that would chase cats up trees and then take turns keeping them there until the grew exhausted and fell out. Apparently, these dogs picked up the habit on their own and they could not break them of it.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Cool!

Yeah. He had a nice collection at one time.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Dang, now I am going to have to thaw out some lamb loin chops.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Really? Never had it? I would have thought that it was on most farm menus. Dogs can be pretty tough on things. I new this family at church that had a couple of dogs that would chase cats up trees and then take turns keeping them there until the grew exhausted and fell out. Apparently, these dogs picked up the habit on their own and they could not break them of it.

I could go squirrel hunting, but never learned how to rabbit hunt. I used to use a bolt action .22 for squirrel. Nice, clean, no pellets. And not too much noise either. You don't want to wait forever for the squirrels to settle down and come out again.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

My shoulder is hurting thinking about it.

I would imagine. My brother-in-law has some kind of Russian sniper rifle. I don't know much about it, but the video of my sister and her kids shooting it is pretty interesting. It raises a heck of a cloud of dust when it goes off and practically lifts them off the ground. Of course these kids I am talking about are over 18 and pretty good-sized lads.

 

[Stanyon]

I love this thread

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Dang, now I am going to have to thaw out some lamb loin chops.

Coincidentally, I will have to go along with Stanyon and you on this. Lamb is probably one of my favorites. We ate pretty well growing up now that I think about it. Lamb was a regular on the menu. I had leg of lamb about three times this year already.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I could go squirrel hunting, but never learned how to rabbit hunt. I used to use a bolt action .22 for squirrel. Nice, clean, no pellets. And not too much noise either. You don't want to wait forever for the squirrels to settle down and come out again.

Where I would regularly hunt, there was a cornfield next to woods. There was a large population and you could set down if you wanted and get your limit in 30 minutes to an hour for squirrels. For rabbits, I had to keep walking.

I used whatever was available from a .22LR, .410 Winchester single shot to a 20 ga. H&R single shot. I liked that last one the best, since you could use it for everything from rabbits, squirrels, turkey to deer. It also had a short overall length making it easier to haul through the brush.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Coincidentally, I will have to go along with Stanyon and you on this. Lamb is probably one of my favorites. We ate pretty well growing up now that I think about it. Lamb was a regular on the menu. I had leg of lamb about three times this year already.

I too enjoy my lamb. My housemate, not so much. But if I cook it in a curry she seems to love it. Ooh! I am craving Lamb Saag. I wonder if I can add some local fresh tomatoes instead of canned. There is a local vegetable stand that gets tomatoes from central Washington. Western Washington does not have the appropriate weather to grow tomatoes. They are far better than anything shipped from California, almost as good as what we raised ourselves on the farm.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I too enjoy my lamb. My housemate, not so much. But if I cook it in a curry she seems to love it. Ooh! I am craving Lamb Saag. I wonder if I can add some local fresh tomatoes instead of canned. There is a local vegetable stand that gets tomatoes from central Washington. Western Washington does not have the appropriate weather to grow tomatoes. They are far better than anything shipped from California, almost as good as what we raised ourselves on the farm.

I have a friend that makes this very simple, but really tasty cucumber and tomato salad that goes with a lot of dishes and is very refreshing as well as tasty. We have a lot of farmer's markets and stands to choose from here. I have not grown my own in several years.

 

[Shad]

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?

Did you get the tactical scary version all in black?

 

[Stanyon]

I meant the cost of the .50 ammo

Don't know exactly, some pillow ticking and some spit or some beeswax and tallow (dependent on the season, I mix more wax with tallow in the hotter times)
I couldn't tell you the exact cost but I could figure it all out for you iffen I wanted to. I make my own powder on occasion which would skew the results

 

[Father Heathen]

Don't know exactly, some pillow ticking and some spit or some beeswax and tallow (dependent on the season, I mix more wax with tallow in the hotter times)
I couldn't tell you the exact cost but I could figure it all out for you iffen I wanted to. I make my own powder on occasion which would skew the results

Nah, I wasn't thinking musket balls, which I imagine would be significantly cheaper.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

You got me there

I don't play games, I speak the truth, and the truth of the matter is that my .50 calibre assault rife looks much like this:

German silver and all with tigerstripe wood. I paid $1,600 for it from a custom maker out of Missouri, my reloading equipment is a drilled out deer antler (scrimshawed by me) in various grain measurements. I have a mould and cast my own balls, I have been known to make my own powder on occasion but it's a lot of work, rather pay $20 a pound for pros to do it for me.

Pretty!

 

[Terry Sampson]

Rifle-Carrying Man Faces Terrorism Charge After Causing Panic At Walmart In Missouri

"Attention shoppers! Stanyon's coming to a Walmart near you!"

 

[Twilight Hue]

I would imagine. My brother-in-law has some kind of Russian sniper rifle. I don't know much about it, but the video of my sister and her kids shooting it is pretty interesting. It raises a heck of a cloud of dust when it goes off and practically lifts them off the ground. Of course these kids I am talking about are over 18 and pretty good-sized lads.

Rifle-Carrying Man Faces Terrorism Charge After Causing Panic At Walmart In Missouri

"Attention shoppers! Stanyon's coming to a Walmart near you!"

Hell I'll buy my shotgun from Walmart.

Ironic isn't it? All those weapons and nobody thought of grabbing one to stop the shooter. Probably didn't want to get sued or prosecuted by the Socialist Democrats as illegally acquiring a firearm.


I could just picture the sign above the counter.....

IN EVENT of EMERGENCY


"It's only okay to stop a rampaging shooter in the store as long as you go through the proper paperwork and wait times before acquiring the gun legally from the counter and stopping the Carnage".

 

[Revoltingest]

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

I always wanted one of these for squirrels.

@beenherebeforeagain is very nervous.

 

[shmogie]

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.

Yes ! with old time black powder and the cloud of smoke it creates, it is easy to see why massed muskets firing made the soldiers virtually blind when firing.