Seanh,
It is true I seen it on that movie Waterworld. Kevin Costner is one of those guys he was talking about. LOL
It is true I seen it on that movie Waterworld. Kevin Costner is one of those guys he was talking about. LOL
Had a coworker tell me he shot at a coyote at 40 yards with his 8mm Mauser and the darn thing had such fast reflexes that it stepped to the side dodging his bullet.
update on mr ranger sniper man.
so today, i met with him again. said he owned m60's and m48's that were used at d-day. i asked him if he meant mg42s. he said nope, thats not it, they are m60s and m48's. I just had to giggle to myself in my head.
also, this guy is a f.i.b. all the wi guys will know what that is.
remaction, i asked this guy where he did ranger school,i asked if he did it at fort leonardwood missouri,
"YUP! he replies. thats where it was at."
any rangers here? where does ranger school happen? or in his words "ranger camp". what should i ask him next? will be meeting with him again next monday.
also, for the lineman out there, this guy wanted me to run him a temp service right off the transformer to an outlet. no overcurrent protection or anything. i said "fuck no. you need to have a breaker panel with a main or else you are relying on our transformer fuse". he said, well, the trans is fused, what the big deal?
This: and he got mad at me me when I didn't believe him:
i had a guy tell me that he could shoot a 1" group at 100 yards.....with a shotgun......and with birdshot....all the pellets landed in a 1"group at 100 yards.
I had a friend tell me that a BOTW rifle can, and i quote, "easily kill game out to 2 miles." He was telling that to a few people and they seemed impressed but when he left i raised my BS flag..
He shot a deer offhand at 750 yds, then while in a tree he shot a deer at 1200 yds with a 7mm mag, held dead center in the cross hairs both times cause a 7mm mag shoots flat.
And then, where I work, there are at least five ex-snipers----I know because they have the base-ball caps which identify them as such.
Two of them have specilized 5.56's that will shoot five holes in to a group smaller than a dime at 1500yds--all day long. In fact they have driven tacks with them.
One of them has a .308 that will shoot 2500yds, and do a group the size of a quarter of 10 shots at that range.
I don't remember the fantastic things the others can do, because I sorta stopped listening to folks with "sniper" sewn on a baseball cap.
Why is it that whenever you try to kindly offer some factual information to someone who is claiming that their .243 only drops a foot at 1000 yards with a 100 yard zero that they always get mad and claim that their best friend is a seal, spec-ops, etc. and that's what he uses and he knows what he's talking about. Am i the only one that has noticed this or is every special forces member required to have at least one dumbass friend? Really, this happens on a regular basis.
A guy I used to work with remembered the season that the Cubs were undefeated...
Top it; I dare you!
A co-workers' husband is a retired plastic surgeon who comes from a wealthy family. He is also the most delusional ego-maniacal asshole I have ever known, and I have known some outstanding examples. I shall refer to him as "Frank the Asshole" (FTA), mostly because his name is Frank and he is a 1st class asshole. In spite of his assumed intelligence and years of hard work and training, he now supplants intelligence, hard work and training with buying really expensive shit that he doesn't know anything about or how to use. This is soon followed by saying a bunch of really stupid shit....
Some years ago a group of us were on a farm that sported some exotic animals that were a bit on the shy side I broke out the Kowa so we could get a good look at them. These things were out somewhere around 1,200 yards. When my brother and I were (jokingly) talking about ranging the llamas, doping the wind, and then dropping them, Mr. FTA quickly blurted out that he could easily hit them with his M16 (yes, he actually has one). He could even perform this task on full-auto just making a mess of Swiss cheese out of these hoofed Andeans. Shit, his M16 is so powerful he actually felt sorry for the llamas for not being at a much greater distance so as to challenge his marksmanship skills. He proceeded to tell us that when he was in the Army he had to qualify EVERY month at 1,500 meters. Never mind that he was an Army doctor. With that out came our 300WMs. We walked some steel out to about where the llamas previously were and proceeded to clang away. His audience began to chide him and demand he get his (iron sighted) M16 and show us how it's done. He did not handle this well at all.
Fast forward a few years to last month and Frank now has a Bofors Howitzer. WTF? Just out of the blue he said he had one, and he could hit shit miles away. I asked his wife about this and she said that after the llama incident he went on a quest the the most powerful long range tool he could find. He found it, but didn't exactly get it. A doctor friend of his, who is from India, said he knew some people in the Indian armed forces that could get their hands on a retired Howitzer for him if he was willing to shell out the cash. In spite of his considerable financial resources and no small amount of effort FTA has not been able to acquire his Bofors 155mm Howitzer. He even employed a law firm to act on his behalf. But IN HIS MIND he has it. He proceeded to tell us how it has night vision (magnum rated, of course), can take out ships that lay just beyond the horizon (he didn't state the reason he might need to do this), and that if there is ever social unrest, "well just let those fuckers set foot on my castle...". Yes, Frank, open up on them with a Howitzer (that you do not now, and never will, own) as they cross the holy boundary also known as the end of your driveway.