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| Subject: | Re: Cal. .50 Machine Gun, M2HB Dimensions |  |
| Date: | Apr 1, 2002 |
| From: | Rick Young & Carol MacLennan-Young | |
> Was watching the Royal Marines bound for Afghanistan on the TV, they were
on
> the assault ship bound for the Gulf, they have .50 cals on tripods with
what
> looked like Red Dot sights on them. They were practicing firing and
> breakdown. It looks like they are going to be Manpacking them into
action.
> That should surprise the Taliban.
I would imagine that there's little on this earth that would give more
comfort to anyone heading for combat that a Ma Douce within easy reach.
I remember a buddy in the reserves describing the feeling of power, sitting
behind the handles of a .50 and watching the stream of light pour from the
end of the barrel...and then realizing that what he was seeing was only
every fifth round of tracer! Almost makes me want to drive south to the
annual Desert Machine Gun Shoot just so I could watch them light up the
night sky with the quad .50 mount. But that would a sever dent in my
modelling budget! :-)
Rick |
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