The firearm thread

**Flip** · 29th March 2011, 19:37

We took some old 303 tracer rabbit hunting one night, gave it in when a ricochet arced away and ended in a pine plantation. We spent the next couple of hours keeping an eye on it.
Great fun but dangerous shit.

**Shadows** · 5th April 2011, 00:01

Not only are they easy to start fires with, tracer rounds aren't any good for accuracy or stopping power either as there's not much consistency in weight and aerodynamics from one bullet to another, they are invariably FMJ which doesn't expand well, the bullets are lightweight by necessity, and they become even lighter the further they travel (at differing rates too) as their bases burn out.

They're cheap for a reason.

**Drunken Monkey** · 5th April 2011, 08:46

yeah, but they look awesome.

**Drunken Monkey** · 5th April 2011, 10:34

Hey Merde, any progress on the new range?

**Flip** · 9th April 2011, 13:10

Thinking about a 10-22 with the laminated stock and heavy hammer formed barrel. Does anybody own one of these here and what do they think?

**jono035** · 10th April 2011, 07:37

Originally Posted by Flip

Thinking about a 10-22 with the laminated stock and heavy hammer formed barrel. Does anybody own one of these here and what do they think?

I had one with an aftermarket laminate stock and Green Mountain bull barrel. Pretty damn accurate and a real joy to shoot from a bi-pod. I'm not sure I'd be keen lugging it around much though, I only really used it for target shooting and the occasional bunny.

DM owns that one now, though.

**sAsLEX** · 10th April 2011, 10:47

Originally Posted by Flip

Thinking about a 10-22 with the laminated stock and heavy hammer formed barrel. Does anybody own one of these here and what do they think?

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I have the USA Shooting Team edition. Love it. I don't mind heavy guns, though walking around with a MAG58 the other day at work I would draw the line before that thing and to think the grunts hump that around plus a Steyr..

**jaffaonajappa** · 12th May 2011, 02:42

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

. I don't mind heavy guns, though walking around with a MAG58 the other day at work I would draw the line before that thing and to think the grunts hump that around plus a Steyr..

Mag58 - aprox 12kg's unloaded?
And I thought the C9 was bad enough....
Mind you - i remember some mates whinging about carting .50 cals up about 5 decks and back down....several times a day. Stuff that.