Redneck games

Heath_h49008 · Post by **Heath_h49008** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:52 am

I'm curious. Anyone else a fan of loud noises and kinetic energy?

(Yes, I'm talking about guns.)

Other topics I'm useful on... Cars, Aircraft, Cooking, Wine...

I compete in ACTS and Action Pistol myself, but I'm looking at building a very long range rifle. .338L, .408CT, or even just a .50BMG.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:30 am

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/200 ... aiser.html

3" 50 automatics.

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:07 am

A couple of weekend ago I picked up a repair part for my "assault rifle", a 1917 Remington infantry rifle, 30-06. Makes a satisfying bang.

I have a picture of me holding a Barrett sniper rifle, which is basically a Browning machine-gun barrel mounted on a stock with a big scope ... fires the .50 caliber machine gun round. Alas, they did not let me try it out.

I do have a black powder cannon, a little .45 caliber toy.

Yeah, airplanes. Does a diesel tractor count? Chain saws?

Things other than noisy sports might qualify as redneck. How about a log cabin in WV? With a blacksmith's forge? Or standing in snow up to your thighs cooking venison over a fire of home-made charcoal.

kunkmiester · Post by **kunkmiester** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:59 am

Horses. I wanna build a rail gun, but I need a place to put the tools and stuff first.

I also make costumes, but that's not really redneck:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1431863/

I need to get to the range more often. I don't have any really fancy toys, but I do have a nice collection.

Heath_h49008 · Post by **Heath_h49008** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:17 am

I have a couple 7.62x51 H&K types, a few sidearms, a few plinkers. Here are some of my regular shooters/carry...

I am in the process of starting life MkII as soon as my divorce is final and my degree is finished. (After a seven year break)

I grew up in a farming family. Yeah, most of my grandfathers equipment was powered by 12" wide leather belts and mule engines... in the late 80's and early 90's...1990's! They still worked and he wasn't going to change.

I also volunteered at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo when it was still a flying museum in the 1990's. So I have, oddly enough, experience with old warbirds.

Ummmm.... past that nothing much on my end.

MSimon... did you mean 3 .50's , or 50 3" compact automatics? You love to have a choice in carry weapons if it's the latter!

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:04 am

I did mean 3" 50 twin mounts. Automatic. My ship had them and I was fortunate to be on deck during exercises (the engine room was my normal place of work or damage control central during GQ).

A number of years after I left the ship (DLGN-25) they were replaced with missiles. Pity. Not only did you get a nice boom, but the deck plates also rang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bainbr ... 8CGN-25%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%22/50_caliber_gun

EricF · Post by **EricF** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:30 am

Sig P226R for IDPA and carry.

For fun: Double Star M4, SAIGA 308 (pending PG conversion), Ruger 10/22.

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:22 pm

Simon, cute little cork-poppers.

My dad was a bit deaf due to a break he took from chemistry in the 1940's to explore Europe. He did a lot of plinking around St. Lo and Aachen, among other places. Their battalion pilots would have said their weapons were a pair of Piper Cubs armed with a dozen 6-inch guns, but the more conventional description is that they had a dozen 155 mm "Long Tom" howitzers plus two L4 observation planes. By the naval definition of calibre these were 45 calibre, as compared to the shorter-barrelled guns more propertly described as howitzers. They were among the first to uses radar proximity fuses, which were unpopular among the Germans. On several occasions they fired in excess of 2000 rounds in a day, if you can imagine the noise. Range was around 23000 meters.

http://www.tomligon.com/MajorTomLigon.html

Not exactly redneck, but loud.

Heath_h49008 · Post by **Heath_h49008** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:18 pm

I carry either the XD45 Tac., or the PPk, depending upon what I'm wearing.

The G3 I built, and the Keltec PLR-16 is my new competition gun, and CQB hotrod. I just got sick of lugging the H&K doing clearance in tight scenarios.

I'm close to having enough guns... I need to finish the Saiga 12 build I'm working on, and I need either a 20mm or a .50BMG for the fun factor. I'm not sure if I can feel complete until I can destroy steel at 1500m.

There are support groups for guys like us. Unfortunately, we meet at the range or the gunshop....

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:34 pm

Heath_h49008 wrote:There are support groups for guys like us. Unfortunately, we meet at the range or the gunshop....

Yup. Most support groups help you wean yourself FROM the addiction. Yours helps you STAY addicted.

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:39 pm

Clearly you need one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82

I would personally swoon if I learned the price of a box of ammo. Mostly I operate a 100 yard paper punch, a Winchester 52, which is affordable but not nearly loud enough to qualify as a desirable redneck piece. The rifle is the grandaddy of the pieces the biatheletes use.

Heath_h49008 · Post by **Heath_h49008** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:02 pm

I was looking at the AR50 and the M82... go cheap, or go all out. Something tells me my divorce lawyer and tuition will wind up eating my big gun budget for this year.

I still send more rounds downrange with either my marlin bolt, or my model 60 .22 than with any other weapon I own. The ammo cost was so high last year, it was prohibitive to shoot like we used to in "The Good Old Days" with anything else.

EricF · Post by **EricF** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:27 pm

With all the conversion kits these days, how long until we find a .22lr bolt conversion kit for the Barrett M82

You could probably fit a ruger 10/22 barrell inside the M82 with room to spare.......

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:36 pm

Before I inherited dad's collection, I bought a Remington 581. Knock the sight off of it and it very likely would fit inside the bore of the Barrett. The barrel is a 24" straight tube of just about 1/2" diameter.

My personal .50 caliber ambition would be a very long reproduction muzzleloading flint-lock rifle, something that might fit the definition of "squirrel gun." Cheap to shoot. and lots of smoke and noise. Very good for the 4th of July. Plus it would look great over the fireplace in the log cabin.

The first Ligon in the new world got in to a notable skirmish with indians in 1649. He apparently used a fowling piece to convince them the particular cabin they were attacking was not worth the effort. Apparently he fired three shots, killing a total of seven attackers. The gun supposedly still exists, and may have essentially been about a 4-gage shotgun some 7-8 ft long. Apparently the affinity for firearms is passed with the Y chromosome in this family.

http://www.tomligon.com/ThomasLygon.html

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:59 pm

Tom Ligon wrote: Before I inherited dad's collection, I bought a Remington 581. Knock the sight off of it and it very likely would fit inside the bore of the Barrett. The barrel is a 24" straight tube of just about 1/2" diameter.

My personal .50 caliber ambition would be a very long reproduction muzzleloading flint-lock rifle, something that might fit the definition of "squirrel gun." Cheap to shoot. and lots of smoke and noise. Very good for the 4th of July. Plus it would look great over the fireplace in the log cabin.

The first Ligon in the new world got in to a notable skirmish with indians in 1649. He apparently used a fowling piece to convince them the particular cabin they were attacking was not worth the effort. Apparently he fired three shots, killing a total of seven attackers. The gun supposedly still exists, and may have essentially been about a 4-gage shotgun some 7-8 ft long. Apparently the affinity for firearms is passed with the Y chromosome in this family.

http://www.tomligon.com/ThomasLygon.html

Just to pick a nit, if the guy's name is Bell, how did he get a Ligon Y chromosome ?