GregP
Major
OK, here's a link to the great fighter gun debate:
The WWII Fighter Gun Debate: Introduction
Scroll down to the bottom and click on "Gun Tables." This has been bouncing around the internet for more than 25 years. I'll stick with Q and M myself and, if anyone wants to be taken seriously in the long-ongoing debate, I'd suggest they not come up with "new" measures of effectiveness. It was tried once and the poor guy was run off the site!
But hey, maybe all the data gives someone a new place to start the debate all over again. I was into it for about 10 years when I was doing some shooting with a friend who collected and sold automatic weapons and cannons in Arizona, but I sort of lost interest when he passed away in the mid 1990's. We had some fun shooting his weapons and a few cannons.
The biggest we shot on a regular basis was a 37 mm Hotchkiss cannon mounted on a 2-wheel truck with a trailer hitch connection, but we did shoot a 75 once on a private ranch. He was a licensed dealer of automatic weapons, so it was legal for him to possess the shells. We got stopped by the police pulling the cannon out there and it took some 3 - 4 hours before they let us go, so we didn't haul that one out much after that. He was screaming at them for an hour because they wanted to see a permit for the cannon. I thought we were going to jail, but it turns out he was right, you don't need a license for a single shot gun! But you DID need a license for explosive ammunition. Interestingly, they were less concerned about the cannon shells than the machine guns in his Chevy Carryall! I kept my mouth shut and asked a few cops if they wanted a drink of water from the ice chest.
The WWII Fighter Gun Debate: Introduction
Scroll down to the bottom and click on "Gun Tables." This has been bouncing around the internet for more than 25 years. I'll stick with Q and M myself and, if anyone wants to be taken seriously in the long-ongoing debate, I'd suggest they not come up with "new" measures of effectiveness. It was tried once and the poor guy was run off the site!
But hey, maybe all the data gives someone a new place to start the debate all over again. I was into it for about 10 years when I was doing some shooting with a friend who collected and sold automatic weapons and cannons in Arizona, but I sort of lost interest when he passed away in the mid 1990's. We had some fun shooting his weapons and a few cannons.
The biggest we shot on a regular basis was a 37 mm Hotchkiss cannon mounted on a 2-wheel truck with a trailer hitch connection, but we did shoot a 75 once on a private ranch. He was a licensed dealer of automatic weapons, so it was legal for him to possess the shells. We got stopped by the police pulling the cannon out there and it took some 3 - 4 hours before they let us go, so we didn't haul that one out much after that. He was screaming at them for an hour because they wanted to see a permit for the cannon. I thought we were going to jail, but it turns out he was right, you don't need a license for a single shot gun! But you DID need a license for explosive ammunition. Interestingly, they were less concerned about the cannon shells than the machine guns in his Chevy Carryall! I kept my mouth shut and asked a few cops if they wanted a drink of water from the ice chest.