The firearm thread

[Wolf]

You don't think you'll be able to tell the difference between regular people and zombies? Remind me to find somewhere else to hole up well outside your target range...

Dude, some of the people I've worked with over the years you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between them and zombies...

[JDK]

there was a write up a while back about the 45/70 lever action saying some areas in the USA the cops were carrying them as all the new side beams etc etc in doors were stopping the wee .223 round also front windows the angle of them were makeing rounds bounce off them
mythbusters were are ya ..

[Mr Merde]

So does anyone know how to rip a VHS to DVD?

If so I could burn off some copies of the tape for those interested.

[Mr Merde]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y44CdrBsfs

Check this out

[jono035]

no doubt indy will, at some stage, break out the mosin. That is when we run.

Yeah, exactly....

"Well I was pointing it at the zombies..."
"Yeah? Well how the hell did it go 45 degrees and hit Bob?!"

Chris: That's a pretty awesome video. What is the name of the VHS? Might be easier to find a copy available to download. Failing that you can rip from a VHS by hooking it straight up to a computer with a tv capture card in it. Not the best results, but reasonable. Some camcorders and DVRs will do it, too.

[Mr Merde]

Yeah, exactly....

"Well I was pointing it at the zombies..."
"Yeah? Well how the hell did it go 45 degrees and hit Bob?!"

Chris: That's a pretty awesome video. What is the name of the VHS? Might be easier to find a copy available to download. Failing that you can rip from a VHS by hooking it straight up to a computer with a tv capture card in it. Not the best results, but reasonable. Some camcorders and DVRs will do it, too.

Video is called

"Deadly Weapons"

Its pretty old (late 80's) so the quality isnt the greatest.

I also have a lot of other gun related videos I woiuld love to burn to DVD.

Engraving, chequering, building old rifles.

[jono035]

Video is called

"Deadly Weapons"

Its pretty old (late 80's) so the quality isnt the greatest.

I also have a lot of other gun related videos I woiuld love to burn to DVD.

Engraving, chequering, building old rifles.

Well there are services where you could just send them the VHS tapes and get them back on DVD but I have no idea what they cost, that'd be the best quality way.

The cheapest would be a computer and capture card, but I think that's a bit of a bastardly process...

A middle-ground way is to use a DVD recorder, most of them will let you record from AV inputs, so you plug the VCR into the DVD recorder, hit play on the VCR, record on the DVD recorder and walk away.

I'll ask around, see if anyone has one I can borrow...

[jono035]

Have found a guy here who has done that kind of thing recently. He has a USB capture unit that he hooked up to a VCR and used Windows Movie Maker to record the video as it played back. He says the quality isn't noticably different from the original footage and it's easy enough to dump it to DVD once you've done that.

I'm getting him to bring the thing in tomorrow so I can take a look.

[Wolf]

This guy looks like he's set for Zombie Apocalypse...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-j7n...eature=related


... as a decoy, I suspect.

A very short-lived decoy, I admit but he may just buy you time to change mags...

[Indiana_Jones]

http://www.therifleshoppe.com/hand_gonnes.htm

let's get one! lol

-Indy

[ready4whatever]

there was a write up a while back about the 45/70 lever action saying some areas in the USA the cops were carrying them as all the new side beams etc etc in doors were stopping the wee .223 round also front windows the angle of them were makeing rounds bounce off them
mythbusters were are ya ..

I thought a .223 would rip through a door no sweat. we shot up a car on the target range once. My .308 went through the side panels and into the engine pretty good. my shotgun was only good for windscreens and bonnets etc. I would of not liked to be in that car

[Wolf]

http://www.therifleshoppe.com/hand_gonnes.htm

let's get one! lol

-Indy

Cool as. Trouble is, the minute we try to import them they'll be seized as "pistols" as it's just the gonne part without the 3-6' shaft attached.

I figure, though, that it would not take a hell of a lot to make our own...

Of course, we'll have to stamp serial numbers on them and ensure the total length is A-cat.

And don't put a hole-through stock on 'em...

[SMOKEU]

I bet the VL owner wasn't none too pleased....

(Wasn't yourself, was it?)

It was my mates VL that was 1 WOF away from a scrap yard so he wanted to have a bit of fun with it...

[Wolf]

It was my mates VL that was 1 WOF away from a scrap yard so he wanted to have a bit of fun with it...

When he disposed of the wreck, did he get any embarrassing questions about how it came to be riddled with bullet holes?

[scumdog]

Got some bullets that were handed in at work, the usual mixture that gets handed in, jambed in a 'Super-Clean' box (made be Canadian Industries Limited a long time ago)

I thought the 22 magnum cartridge looked a tad fat and the other centre-fire cartidges looked ultra-skinny.

Then the penny dropped - the magnum was actaully a .25 long and the 'skinny' cartidges were some sort of 'rook-rifle' cartridges, about .20 to .22 calibre, I'll get the magnifying glass out and give 'em a going over.

Meanwhile back to my bourbon...