A real Gun

[Bill]

Hey, only doing our job sir. :)

[Stinger]

The problem with the Murphy cartoon is that it won't link to as an image to a forum. Here's the site address, the one at paratrooper.net is has the better list.

http://www.pvtmurphy.com/
http://www.paratrooper.net/aotw/PvtM...asp?fileid=120

Their drawn by SFC Mark Baker, the're all PG.... well maybe PG 13 ;)

[Blackclaw]

Originally posted by PiggyWiggy
yup.

my father owns a carabine...<nods head>

The best rifle out there.

he also gots a mauser

i fired it at the range, and my shoulder flew off LOL.

like a cannon compared to guns today.

I took my mauser out to the range just last week. Yeah, it let's you know when it goes off.

Ammo is expensive for it though. I'm trying to explain to my wife why I need a 22 bolt action so I can practice more. And then I need an M1 Garand, a 1908 Springfield, and a British Enfield to establish my WW 2 collection.

[TopHatter]

Originally posted by Stinger
Claymores lots and lots of claymores....

Claymore mines are not filled with yummy candy, and it is wrong to tell new soldiers that they are

[Stinger]

Originally posted by TopHatter
Claymore mines are not filled with yummy candy, and it is wrong to tell new soldiers that they are

lol

[Smoke286]

Originally posted by M21Sniper
LOL, so then i am a combat experienced fool that would take an M-16 over an AK any day of the week. :)

Hitting the target is much more important than all other considerations- even reliability.


Patton wasn't kidding when he said "The M-1 is the greatest implement of battle ever devised", nor was he mistaken.

IIRC you have misquoted him, he was speaking about the jeep

[Praxus]

Actually he was talking about the M1 Garand:-D

[Smoke286]

Most of the people here have valid arguments. The M1 was the finest rifle of WW II, The AK series probably the best system produced post war, at least until the 80's .The greatest rifle series of all time was probably the Lee Enfield series. It was in my opinion without peer from its inception to post WW I and still better then the weapons fielded by its enemys during WW II

[tomas]

enfield sniper rifles rox they are still one of the best today in my opinion :sniper

[2DREZQ]

The best battle rifle in the world is whatever the squad of U.S. Marines that are coming in to save my sorry A$s are carrying
at that moment!

"Within certain broad parameters, it isn't the weapon, but the steely-eyed bastard behind it that carries the day."

[griftadan]

The most used weapon, because it is reliable

nooooo.. they are the most used because the soviets made a shitload of them and then had to sell them to all over the world for dirt cheap cause your god damn commie system doesnt work

[Fury]

From what I know the magazine or whatever its called in M1 Garand could not be removed until it was fired empty and after the last round the magazine popped up itself. Some people say this was a disadvantage and clearly it is to some point but really, how big of a disadvantage is it? I suppose the Garand is quick to reload with a full magazine by simply pressing the the full one from the top of the weapon although I never fired a Garand before.

[Bill]

The M-14 is a garand with a detatchable box magazine and a new caliber.

The old garand fired from an 8-rd box clip.

[Dragoon]

"FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" is printed in raised bold face letters on the front of the mine.

Of course, there is still a 40+ meter no safe zone behind the mine when it is detonated...so you don't want to be ANYWHERE near one of those when they go off unless you are in a nice deep hole, lol.

Off topic I'm afraid,

In Mooresville NC last week A claymore ( INERT unfortunately teh bomb squad was required to discover that fact) was found in a trashcan after a National Guard member tossed out a training dummy he had aquired
The Poor fellow Who found it was quoted as saying " I saw FRONT TOWARD ENEMY and thought ...., huh, This can't be good."

[griftadan]

Off topic I'm afraid,

In Mooresville NC last week A claymore ( INERT unfortunately teh bomb squad was required to discover that fact) was found in a trashcan after a National Guard member tossed out a training dummy he had aquired
The Poor fellow Who found it was quoted as saying " I saw FRONT TOWARD ENEMY and thought ...., huh, This can't be good."

ive always wanted to set one of those things off. were they around before vietnam, or developed after? cause to me it seems like something that was korea-inspired.