bintananth
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Why does skin colour even enter into it?
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bintananth
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And I think they're all crap. I'd rather have the matchlock musket my great-great-great-grandfather brought to the US in the 1850s than one of those.
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Uh, I can out shoot you, reload, and unload a second mag by the time you get two shots off
Bear Ribs
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No, I'm with him, I'd rather have the matchlock too. A vintage 1850s matchlock would go for a fortune at auction and I could use part of that to buy a modern rifle and bank the rest.
"A house I can rent out and turn a profit on plus a modern gat? Why thank you!"
AnimalNoodles
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Because 'social justice' doesnt apply to certain groups.
bintananth
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The antique percussion cap rifles used back then outrange an M4 and it's not even funny. My big sister's 1853 Enfield is calibrated for 1,600yds and my big sis Euphie doesn't need a scope to hit something further away.
The rate of fire is slow. Getting hit by a 0.58" Minié Ball, however, is not pleasant as many accounts of just how horrible US Civil War injuries were.
I'd rather have any of the following weapons than a M4/AR-15.
Karabiner 98k and derivatives
SVD Dragunov
Lee Enfield SMLE
M1903 Springfield
Mosin-Nagant
THE ROSS RIFLE
And any .50 markmen weapon
Bolt action and semi autos chambered in .30 or bigger is what the Taliban used in Afghanistan to snipe Coalition forces from outside the effective range of their AR type weapons.
Also, I hope your aware of the statistics of how many bullets it takes for a M16/AR-15 armed soldier before they hit a target compared to the number used by markmen.
Bear Ribs
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My dude, the target used by an 1853 Enfield to test accuracy (at 600 yards) was six feet across with the center two feet the bullseye. Being able to hit said target 7 times with 20 rounds ranked the shooter as a marksman. Modern weapons aren't less accurate, they're simply measured on a much, much tighter standard where the entire target is smaller than the Enfield's bullseye alone was, and a modern soldier would be expected to hit far more than 1 in 3 shots to be called a marksman.
bintananth
behind a desk
I actually have access to these:
* A G98 instead of a K98k, but close enough.
Of those I think the "smelly" (SMLE) is the best.
bintananth
behind a desk
My big sis Euphie wasn't impressed by Quigley Down Under.
She's a much better shot than what the movie did to impress the audience.
Bear Ribs
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Pics or it didn't happen.
bintananth
behind a desk
Honoring that request would breach TS's "no doxing" rule. Stating my big sister's given name was kinda pushing it.
Bear Ribs
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Nothing stopping you from censoring or leaving out the face and just showing the shot itself.
That's not actually doxing and doesn't violate any rules, but it does open you/your sister to potential doxing, so it's understandable to not share it
LindyAF
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Bolt guns are obsolete
The vast majority of fighting occurs within 500m, majority within 300m. Also old bolt guns had standards of accuracy that are like 3-4MOA.
My understanding is that The Afghanistan ambushes were with .30 cal machine guns, not bolt guns.
Edit: This detail might be best moved to another thread.
The vast majority of fighting occurs within 500m, majority within 300m. Also old bolt guns had standards of accuracy that are like 3-4MOA.
My understanding is that The Afghanistan ambushes were with .30 cal machine guns, not bolt guns.
Edit: This detail might be best moved to another thread.
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bintananth
behind a desk
They're not.
Manually-cycled bolt-action is almost as fast as semi-automatic and much less fussy, especially in horrible weather.
There's a reason this news article was written:
Why the 114-year-old Lee-Enfield rifle is only now being retired by the Canadian Armed Forces
Once shouldered by nearly 50 armies, Canada becomes the last military in the world to remove it from front-line service
nationalpost.com
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Like a dream without a dreamer
"My FeLLoW wHItE PeOplE, we need to learn our place on the progressive stack... something something QTBIPOC, something something marginalized!"
bintananth
behind a desk
If you have to state your race without it being relevant when you say something you're full of shit.
"My FeLLoW wHItE PeOplE, we need to learn our place on the progressive stack... something something QTBIPOC, something something marginalized!"
These people are so mentally-deficient that I wouldn't even bat an eye if their non-White overseers ordered them to jump off a cliff, and they actually went through with it.
"My FeLLoW wHItE PeOplE, we need to learn our place on the progressive stack... something something QTBIPOC, something something marginalized!"