Any firearms enthusiasts here?

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By "active" do you mean do I shoot them? With the exception of the Tanfoglio Witness pistol which I regularly go to the range to shoot, not in a while. The saddest example is this. I received the Ruger Number 1 Standard in .338 Winchester Magnum as a gift from my brother about five years ago. I have still never shot the gun. Mine differs from the one below in that I have a nice Leupold scope on it. It's a really nice big game hunting rifle.

Before moving back to the Bay Area from Sacramento three years ago, I would go jackrabbit hunting at least twice a month with the Marlin .22 Magnum rifle or the Remington 870 12ga. shotgun. I really miss those days. They were monstrously large jackrabbits too. I remember taking my brother with me once. He saw a jackrabit about 150 yards away as it moved across a little hill and thought it was a small dog.

 

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Yeah, how was the holiday?

Thanks for asking Med and Fly not the best I've had but sure beats the crap out of working.
I don't know what it is but I always found US ammo had a bit more zip than its European equivalent. Have any of you guys had the same experience ?

 

[Nonskimmer]

I was gonna ask trackie, but just hadn't gotten around to it yet.

 

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Im sure you was Skim me old mate
Changing the subject completle do you remember the post about modern torpedos power I have just finished a book about Taranto and I have discovered that the torps used there had duplex Pistol ingniters so if they failed to detonate by the usual contact and passed below the keel a magnetic pistol allowed them to exploded underneath the ship. I always thought the these where a fairly new idea.

 

[Nonskimmer]

Yeah, I've heard of the idea being around during WWII, but didn't think it had seen much use. I had no idea the torpedoes used at Taranto were of that type.

 

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Aparently because the outer habour(Mar Grande) was only 30 feet deep one was dropped from a bit too high and buried itself in the mud by the Littorio frog men recovered it intacted so the secrets of torps fell into the axis hands.