Author Topic: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?  (Read 9005 times)

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2006, 02:15:46 PM »
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They're not shot in Talibanland. They're not shooting at Taliban.


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I do not like them, Sam I Am.

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(wait, on second thought...)

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2006, 02:16:19 PM »
some of you fellows are rude and some of you make absolutely no sense.

who would dress up as an aniaml to get shot sounds like you saw that episode on csi las vegas where the animal pervert is shot by a coyote.


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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #27 on: November 15, 2006, 02:19:00 PM »
Yellow bellied Marmot




Prairie Dog




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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #28 on: November 15, 2006, 02:20:18 PM »
who would dress up as an aniaml to get shot sounds like you saw that episode on csi las vegas where the animal pervert is shot by a coyote.

HUH?

Buddy, you say we're not making sense?

Step away from the bottle.

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #29 on: November 15, 2006, 02:21:28 PM »
please stop insulting me i know i might not type the best but i tr.y

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2006, 02:21:57 PM »
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..some of you make absolutely no sense.


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who would dress up as an aniaml to get shot sounds like you saw that episode on csi las vegas where the animal pervert is shot by a coyote.


Umm, you were saying...?

You really shouldn't smoke crack and post.


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please stop insulting me i know i might not type the best but i tr.y

Fella, let me give ya a little friendly advice. The folks here are a good lot. They give lots of newbies the benefit of the doubt. However, when you step up to the plate and - in your first day of posting - put up something so old and so thoroughly debunked then start defending it with what can only be described as laughably inept observations, well... you should expect a little incredulity, ribbing, and no small amount of snickering aimed in your general direction.

If you want to join us here at APS we'll welcome you with open arms (screens?). Just understand that this bunch of folks are about the most level-headed, common-sensical, knowledgeable, and perceptive group you'll ever meet. They enjoy a good story, some well-wrought satire, and even the occasional semi-dirty joke. What we won't put up with is overtly outrageous behaviour, irrational responses, or insultingly poor attempts at inflammatory rhetoric.

We will also educate. If the statement, thought process, or proferred information is incorrect, we will correct it. Sometimes at great length. You've just experienced that. We've all been corrected here. A lot. But that's why we're here - a group of like minded individuals in a general conversation about just about anything. We all listen and learn or talk and train, depending on the material and our level of interest or expertise.

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2006, 02:30:38 PM »
OK, regarding the landscape.

The first is a picture of landscape in Afghanistan.

The second is a picture from the American West.






Kind of hard to tell the difference, eh?

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« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2006, 03:34:55 PM »
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who would dress up as an aniaml to get shot sounds like you saw that episode on csi las vegas where the animal pervert is shot by a coyote.

*So-And-So* Um...








... 'kay.

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2006, 05:06:42 PM »
methinks our favorite troll is back...  rolleyes
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2006, 06:07:50 PM »
Sigh... grin
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #35 on: November 15, 2006, 06:22:13 PM »
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I watched the footage over and over but must admit at first i wasnt sure what was been shot. Take another look. The way those body parts went flying weather you believe they were Prarrie Dogs or not can only be done with a large cal weapon. Ive shot many different animals in my life time from deer to rats spaning over my my years using .270 cal down to .22 and they came no where near doing the damge i saw on that footage.

http://www.dogbegone.com/video.htm

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #36 on: November 15, 2006, 06:25:36 PM »
Oleg, we really need to issue troll detection systems to all members.
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #37 on: November 15, 2006, 06:41:59 PM »
Too bad the Tali-furries didn't have ceramic plates in their fur suits.   grin
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #38 on: November 15, 2006, 08:27:16 PM »
.50 BMG- varmint rifle for people.  grin
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #39 on: November 15, 2006, 10:25:17 PM »
Wikipedia Quote:

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Marmots are not hunted for sport but are sometimes killed by farmers.

It appears that these "things" are being shot for sport, which means one of two things:

  • They are small furry critters but NOT Rock Chucks

or

  • They are Taliban fighters being shot by a Navy SEAL with a .50 BMG from 1,000yds with hollow points.  I would bet a PO1 from Seal Team 6, I'm 98% certain.
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #40 on: November 16, 2006, 03:52:08 AM »
It could also mean a third thing...

The person who made that Wikipedia entry didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

Why look at this!

A page on SPORT hunting the yellow-bellied marmot! By the Colorado Division of Wildlife, none the less! http://ndis.nrel.colostate.edu/huntingspx.asp?SpCode=050087

Someone had better update that page on Wikipedia...
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #41 on: November 16, 2006, 04:52:17 AM »
That's why they are called "rock" chucks.

Not because they deal crack.
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #42 on: November 16, 2006, 05:03:00 AM »
I can't freakin' believe this, clearly if they were shooting 50s they wouldn't even have to hit 'em to disentegrate 'em.  It's true, a real life marine told me that a .50 bullet passing close to a target is enough to do 'em in!   cheesy

This video is a pretty good varmint video, I'd also recommend "Dog Be Gone" for similar arobatics.

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #43 on: November 16, 2006, 05:05:35 AM »

  I would bet a PO1 from Seal Team 6, I'm 98% certain.


I dunno, that looks like a 2nd class did the shooting. The weight from that extra chevron makes people dogleg to the left just a hair, and a CPO would never put down his coffee cup long enough to make a shot like that.

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2006, 05:22:33 AM »
Hah, why does a CPO wear khakis?

To hide the coffe stains...

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #45 on: November 16, 2006, 05:30:20 AM »
My buddy and I were pissedoff at our chief once, so we cleaned his coffee cup and pretended like we did him a favor.

Years of coffee stains down the drain  grin


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« Reply #46 on: November 16, 2006, 05:58:37 AM »
Yup, I knew a kid who took Comet to one old guy's cup thinking he WAS doing him a favor. Hoo boy, the fur was a flyin' that day too!  shocked

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #47 on: November 16, 2006, 08:28:17 AM »
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Yup, I knew a kid who took Comet to one old guy's cup thinking he WAS doing him a favor. Hoo boy, the fur was a flyin' that day too!
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Probably got about the same response as my cousin who thought she was doing the world a favor when she scrubbed my Grandmother's skillet completely and thoroughly clean "because it was all crusted up and nasty." She didn't get invited back for a while.

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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #48 on: November 16, 2006, 08:57:08 AM »
...or the neighbor who helpfully put the cast iron skilets in the dishwasher & ran it a cycle.  Oh, the humanity!

Or the new wife who washed her new hubby's pipes in soap & water...
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Re: what happens when our troops get to use .50s against the enemy?
« Reply #49 on: November 16, 2006, 09:01:35 AM »
At least when we did it, it was deliberate and malicous  grin