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    Merry Christmas

    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    I like!
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    Nothing says Merry Christmas better than one of these.

    https://www.budsgunshop.com/search.p...ett%2050%20bmg

    I would love to have one and go bankrupt feeding it ammo.
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    What is the recoil like on one of those things? I remember the first guy to build his own rifle chambered for a .50 that I read about a few decades ago, broke his shoulder the first time he cranked one off, but I assume there are recoil suppression measures now.
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    I've only shot about 10 Rounds the adrenaline and excitement was so high that I didn't really feel it. But it does have a punch there is no doubt. One thing for sure ear protection is an absolute must. I've always wanted to own one but I worry about liability if it ever got stolen and you just can't take that out in the woods and shoot it you got to make sure that you've got somewhere very solid for that bullet to land
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    What is the recoil like on one of those things?
    I've never shot one, but I remember at one of the SHOT shows I attended, one of the manufacturers had a recoil simulator I tried...It was a big, sudden push...I have shot the 20mm General Electric M-61 Vulcan at 6,000 rounds per minute, but it was anchored on a concrete test stand so I never felt the recoil...But I did get a good taste of the muzzle blast......Ben

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    One of the more memorable parts of basic training was on a live fire course. We did this twice, once during the day and the second during the night.

    We were in a "low crawl" from beginning to end. There were sand bag obstacles along the way that we had to go around--and they had explosives in the interior of them---I'm not sure how they were "fired" but it seemed more than a few would go off while you were beside them. At the same time 50 caliber machine guns were firing over head. At points along the way we would have to roll on our backs to hold up concertina wire across the course---that became an incentivizing element at night.

    During the daytime "trip" we were constantly told to hurray by the DIs--and I remember thinking that the night "trip" would be easier since the DIs would not know if I was taking a break

    My plan was quickly abandoned when we started the night version----my first concertina wire turned me over and now I am laying there on my back---looking up at the tracers going over my head---now I have no idea how far over my head they might have been but I quickly decided that expediency was the best approach
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    Dave, That sounds like ITR at Camp Geiiger
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