Why you should hold the butt against your shoulder (was: Re:[SGVLUG] hp tech support! - take this!!!)

[serross at ix.netcom.com]

I've shot almost everything from .22 to 5" and enjoy it all. Also hold as an instructor. The adage 'man has to know his limitations' holds when picking what Thay shoot and for what purpose. A 700 Nitro Express is just over kill for squirrels. Now that so many here like to talk firearms - Any want to get into the firearm rights movement???
Stephen

 
-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 12, 2007 4:17 PM
>To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
>Subject: Re: Why you should hold the butt against your shoulder (was:	Re:[SGVLUG] hp tech support! - take this!!!)
>
>On 7/12/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>> Such a fun OT just before a meeting...
>>
>> > -----Original Message----- Of Michael Proctor-Smith
>> [...]
>> > > Some of those looked like they'd not even snugged the butt
>> > up against
>> > > their shoulder, which would really suck. [...]
>> >
>> > So lesson here is to never fire a .577 T-Rex ever. But that
>> > video is an example of why the video that started all this
>> > was not a guy fireing a .50cal.
>>
>> So, I tend to exagerate... ;)  [yeah, weight and size would be a better
>> reason why I was wrong on the caliber, though I was guestimating from
>> the chain of bullets draped over the guy doing the vid -- then again, he
>> might have donned a larger caliber "belt" for dramatic effect...]
>
>Mike, guesses Tom not has not acctually seen a .50BMG before, as the
>belt was clearly 7.62mm.
>http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/photos/david_driskell/556n762n338lm408ct50bmg.jpg
>
>> But as pointed out in the next message, THAT gun did not have a
>> (semi)auto mechanism which would have taken up a significant amount of
>> the "recoil"
>>
>> Consider a tripod-mounted .50 cal there is no way a flimsy tripod/bipod
>> "mount" that you see in war vids (or, for that matter a unipod in the
>> back of a jeep) would keep a gun with that much kick "on target" for the
>> second shot...
>>
>> In any case, who wouldn't want to have this around:
>>
>> http://www.extremesportclips.com/video/1469/Mini-Machine-Gun.html
>>
>>