[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Random firearm fact thread. (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 7/8/2011 10:18:33 AM EDT
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Lets make a thread thats just for random firearm facts.
The AR platform is available in around 40 different calibers. Beretta firearms has been in business for 500 years, making it the oldest firearms manufacturer in the world and has stayed in the same family. Please, feel free to add some. |
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The MG 42 was designed by a company with no prior firearms experience, normally a formula for disaster... So was the Glock, of course that really was a disaster.  http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/gimmesomelovep1.gif Its ok, I don't like you either. 
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| The last lever action to be used in combat in significant numbers was the Winchester model 1895 sold to the Pre-communist Russia in 7.62x54R. It was used in the Russian Intervention. Where the US INVADE Russian, in the 1919-1920. The Rifles were used by the Reds against both the White forces, the British Expeditionary Force, and the American Expeditionary force. |
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The secret to throwing an item up into the air and shooting it, it is to shoot when it reaches the apex. Or wait till it hits the ground and then shoot it. I usually keep shooting at it and when it's on the ground I'll finally get a hit. 
My dad could toss three walnuts in the air and hit all three in midair with a semi-auto .22. He told me that's how you do it. |
And only fires once.. |
In 2005, Florida recorded a murder rate 13% lower than the rate for the rest of the country (4.96 per 100,000, vs. 5.67 for the rest of the country). For the record, Florida’s 2005 murder rate was 58% lower than it was in 1986, the last year before the state’s landmark Right-to-Carry law took effect. |
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The Beretta 92 is based off the Walther P-38.
Glock model numbers are the patents in order. While the Hi-Power was originally a JMB invention, it really is credited to Dieudonné Saive who changed it to its current incarnation (He also designed the FAL). The .30-30 Winchester can lay claim to the most big game hunting kills in the United States. The original AK-47 had a stamped receiver, but the Soviets simply did not have the technology for it to work. That is the reason for milled receivers until the AKM. |
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Quoted: Quoted: At one time Daisy (the BB gun people) offered a rifle in what would later come to be known as .338 Lapua Magnum. Didn't Daisy once have a caseless gun as well? I vaguely seem to remember seeing one once.  I don't know about that, but I know they did a number of things. Here's an ad for their .338LM rifle:  |
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The .30-30 Winchester can lay claim to the most hunting kills in the United States. Big game only? I am betting the 10-22 or the 870 have killed many more animals than the Winchester. Personally I have shot more birds in one day with my 870 than in 30 years with my hunting rifle. And how soon before AR's take over Winchester for big game hunting kills? |
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In 1986 workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) began a strike against Colt that eventually became the longest in Connecticut history. The company continued operating with replacement workers. Colt suffered a huge blow in 1988 when it lost out to FN Manufacturing Co. in the bidding for the U.S. Army contract to make M-16s.
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At one time Daisy (the BB gun people) offered a rifle in what would later come to be known as .338 Lapua Magnum. Didn't Daisy once have a caseless gun as well? I vaguely seem to remember seeing one once. Yes they did. I actually sold them when I worked for Woolco, back in 1968. The cartridges were .22 caliber IIRC, with a small charge glued to the rear of the bullet. The compressed air from the rifle pump set off the charge and propelled the bullet. I remember thinking, "This is neat, but it sure is going to suck when they quit making these specialized cartridges."
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The .30-30 Winchester can lay claim to the most hunting kills in the United States. Big game only? I am betting the 10-22 or the 870 have killed many more animals than the Winchester. Personally I have shot more birds in one day with my 870 than in 30 years with my hunting rifle. And how soon before AR's take over Winchester for big game hunting kills? Big Game, not small game. |
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snip The .30-30 Winchester can lay claim to the most hunting kills in the United States. snip I don't neccessarily doubt this, but how can this be quantified? I'll have to find it again, but it is credited to the most big game killed. IIRC, the .30-06 is 2nd place |
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The secret to throwing an item up into the air and shooting it, it is to shoot when it reaches the apex. Or wait till it hits the ground and then shoot it. I usually keep shooting at it and when it's on the ground I'll finally get a hit.
My dad could toss three walnuts in the air and hit all three in midair with a semi-auto .22. He told me that's how you do it. And he was correct. That is the easiest way to hit them. Elmer Keith (the inventor of the .44 Magnum) once practiced all winter until he could regularly throw an empty paint bucket into the air and draw his pistol and hit it 6 times before it hit the ground.
He then invited a couple of gun writers to his place and showed them how he could do it. |
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AR stands for Assualt Weapon. Weapon comes from latin word Rifille or Rifle. NOPE, sorry. AR stands for "Awesome Rheinwasser" awesome being from the greek for "totally rad" Rheinwasser meaning "gizmo" in german. But you were close there, my fellow scholar. |
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air rifles were used as sniper rifles back in the 1700s and they were so quiet and deadly that eventually if you were caught with an air rifle on a european battlefield they would execute you on the spot.
the rifles shot a lead ball as usual and had a great big air tank on them |