Re: [sg] platoon stuff and combat engineers

At 1:42 PM -0700 6/26/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>  Heck, one .600 Nitro Express would probably knock if
>>  flat. 'Course
>>  thinking about it, did the Marines have a sniper
>>  with a HMR on board?
>
>For shipboard use?  Not bloody likely.
>
>Have you ever handled a .50 cal sniper rifle??  I

A .50 barret or other .50 BMG sniper rifle? No. A Bren LMG with the 
100 Round drum (loaded, albeit with the wooden tipped blanks) on top? 
Yes. Likely very similar in heft. I've also handled a friend's .50 
barreled Boyes AT-Rifle (not a Sniper gun, but great for poking holes 
in SdzKfz 232s and other German Armour).

>thought you were one of the heavy-duty gun nuts on the
>list.	I have played around with a Barrett and it is
>NOT something you want in CQB.  You just can't handle
>it well enough.

Yeah, but if something big and mean came on board my ship, I'd get 
someone with one of those to shoot the damn thing. That or set up a 
saw and hose it down.

>That's before you start in on the problems with
>shooting armor-piercing rounds off in a space where
>very little 'reacts well with bullets', to quote one
>movie.

If it's being eaten by some monster or killing it and patching leaks 
in the pressure skin, I'll go with patching holes in the pressure 
skin.
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