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2009-12-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-12-23 13:05|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 clean your underwear out and buy a lottery ticket

Posted by chris 2009-12-23 14:05|| 2009-12-23 14:05|| Front Page Top

#2 could easily be a fake

Posted by lord garth 2009-12-23 14:20|| 2009-12-23 14:20|| Front Page Top

#3 My money is on a not-so-good second shooter behind a not-so-grassy knoll....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2009-12-23 15:33|| 2009-12-23 15:33|| Front Page Top

#4 would be nice if a boomerang bullet could be developed and left in places for the enemy to pick up...

Posted by Chunky Phaving7818 2009-12-23 17:02|| 2009-12-23 17:02|| Front Page Top

#5 would be nice if a boomerang bullet could be developed and left in places for the enemy to pick up...

Even better, leave loose rounds around that have had the case filled with C-4. It really gets their attention!

Posted by Dopey Jolung5934 2009-12-23 17:29|| 2009-12-23 17:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't buy it. Way too pat.

Consider the energy it takes to send a .50 cal bullet 1000 yards downrange. Consider the energy dissipated in flight, then the energy absorbed by the target plate. And there's supposed to be enough energy left over to come 1000 yards back, hit the dirt, fly up and put a good-sized nick in his earpiece?

I don't buy it. Somewhere here with much more education and experience in ballistics please educate me why I should.

Posted by Steve White 2009-12-23 18:03|| 2009-12-23 18:03|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not ballistics, Doc, it's physics.

But you got it right.

Posted by Bobby at the Kids Place in Texas 2009-12-23 18:12|| 2009-12-23 18:12|| Front Page Top

#8 looks like Mr. Bobby is tapping the wi-fi at an Odessa Chuck-E-Cheese? Or perhaps I have that wrong :-)

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-23 18:19|| 2009-12-23 18:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Here is what the vid creator says:
6-27-07: BOOM HEADSHOT! This is amazing. Willie, the father of Tina, who made the sandbag rests fires a .50BMG, an Armalite AR-50 and it ricochets off of a steel plate that it should have easily penetrated. The bullet comes straight back and hits him in the head. You can see it hit the dirt about 15 feet in front on him before it clobbers him. Luckily he was uninjured. He's a bit sore today, but otherwise fine. Lucky lucky bastard. He has been advised to buy lottery tickets while he still has so much luck. I don't know about the timing, but you can hear the hit on the steel plate. Time that till the impact on Willie's head... how fast is that 750 grain slug traveling? The range is 100 yards. Amazing.

Damn lucky the bullet/frag hit his ear protector and not the forehead.

Posted by ed 2009-12-23 19:13|| 2009-12-23 19:13|| Front Page Top

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