[OFB Cafe] Photographers?

[Chris Olson]

From: saki 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:06 PM
To: An Open Discussion Forum on Just About Everything,Especially for Techies. 
Subject: Re: [OFB Cafe] Photographers?

> Electronic targetting is getting better and better, and the use of 
> machine gun makes more certain of a kill than a single shot from a rifle.

No it don't.  I shoot Big Bore Combat Pistol in the Indianhead Pistol League and I got a whole wall case full of trophies I've won.  I shoot with iron sights and can outshoot any laser scoped machine pistol in existence.  I got an M-60 machine gun in my collection and shoot it quite a bit too.  And yes, it's totally legal because I got a FFL.  But when I need the certain kill I use my Barrett M82A1 .50 caliber sniper rifle.

You should've seen the shot I made on a wolf last year.

We got two wolf packs living in our area, one of them roams our farm quite regular.  Just before harvest last fall I was doing some fixing on my deer stand and I shot the alpha male in that pack with the Light Fifty when I saw the pack feeding on a dead heifer they'd killed on the neighbor's land.  I climbed down out of the tree, ran home with my four wheeler, grabbed my Barrett Light Fifty, rushed back to the stand, set the bipod up, then checked the range.  It was getting towards dark but the scope said 1,840 meters so I zeroed for that range, then estimated the wind, being I didn't have a downrange spotter.  I compensated 1.5 meters left on the biggest one in the pack.

I squeezed the shot off, the Barrett belted me in the shoulder and I was momentarily blinded by the flash from the muzzle brake.  When I came back on target the pack had scattered and there was a dead one laying by the heifer.  The 500 grain bullet had hit the wolf just behind the rib cage and cut him just about in two - only the bullet entry side was still holding the wolf together because there was a gaping 1 foot diameter hole in the bullet exit side of its body and all its guts were laying all over the ground.

I was pretty proud of that shot.  The DNR warden that came out to pick up the wolf just shook his head and congratulated me on a superb shot when I showed him where I'd killed the wolf from.

The Barrett Light Fifty, with 500 grain uranium/tungsten armor piercing rounds, can eliminate targets thru a 10 inch thick reinforced concrete wall, or 1.5 inch thick steel armor at 1,000 meters.  You can hide behind a car at 2,000 meters and you are not safe if targeted by rifleman with a Light Fifty.  Of course, the gun control nuts managed to get the Barrett .50 outlawed in California after David Koresh and his group held off the BATF, FBI and National Guard for 51 days with nothing but small arms and two Barrett .50's.  However, the NRA has already filed suit on that one after the historic ruling by the US Supreme Court on the Washington DC handgun ban.  You can thank people like me who support the NRA that prevents government and various weenie groups from turning this country into a police state like they got in Europe.

Anyway, back to the wolves; they took the Wisconsin grey wolves off the endangered species list so we can hunt 'em.  We've been shooting them for years anyway and the packs still keep growing.  But now the WI DNR has a new money-making scheme - sell wolf tags to hunters.  The more wolf tags they can sell, the bigger the Christmas Party in Madison.  And they passed a new law - if I shoot a wolf on my own property that killed one of my wife's calves and is eating it, I have to buy a wolf tag to make it "legal".  It's like, screw that - I won't even call the DNR.  I'll just leave the dead wolf laying there and let the crows pick its bones clean.
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Chris