(02-23-2010 07:20 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(02-22-2010 07:07 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Holy Frioles you can buy that 50 cal.

http://www.barrett.net/

Look at the computer scope on top. I just can't believe you can get your hands on one of these.

BTW, while that Barrett is a badass weapon, the longest confirmed kill, by LCpl Rob Furlough with the Canadian military, is credited to this weapon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_Tac-50

And Civilians can buy a Tac-50 as well

(02-23-2010 07:32 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(02-23-2010 07:20 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(02-22-2010 07:07 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Holy Frioles you can buy that 50 cal.

http://www.barrett.net/

Look at the computer scope on top. I just can't believe you can get your hands on one of these.

BTW, while that Barrett is a badass weapon, the longest confirmed kill, by LCpl Rob Furlough with the Canadian military, is credited to this weapon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_Tac-50

And Civilians can buy a Tac-50 as well

It also seems a little more manageable. The Barrett is just awkward. I watched the movie again. Aside from the obvious BS, it's a pretty cool movie. Still don't know why the SFC, a Ranger....but for some reason didn't have a tab on his left shoulder, didn't get the Barrett, but an ex-intel guy did. BTW, who the fk leaves Intel for EOD? That's like a Signal soldier going to Benning for infantry training. People in the military aren't stupid. They do things that'll advance their career and help them out on the outside. EOD =/= Intel. Intel jobs pay very well on the outside. EOD, well, you can get a job on a police force. Another thing, unlike Murphy's Law that says if your enemy is in your range of fire, you're also in your enemy's range of fire, that's not the case in this movie with the Barrett. That dude had an AK. The site railing was indicative of an AK. Sorry, 7.62x39 isn't that accurate of a round at very long distances. As much as I trash the 5.56, it's a more accurate round.

BTW Mach, I have one of these:

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

Makes a damn good deer gun. ....but I stopped hunting in '98. Now it's just a toy. Maybe will have a Zombie infestation so it can start being used again.

I wonder if anyone else watched the PBS Frontline last night. They had an embedded journalist filming Taliban operations. It was almost laughable that those putzes can accomplish anything, if not for the fact that they're murderous bastards with dangerous toys.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...e=proglist

So it wins big at the Oscars. People, please don't think that **** is real. Even with a choreographer they get a million things wrong. Might as well be "Basic".