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Hey Jim,
The show this week was excellant!!!!!
I really loved how you handled yourself with the Barrett's.
But mostly how you never missed a step and that you never even came close to mentioning the outcry for the Banning of the .50's.
You worked it just like it was any other Rifle or Shotgun sold at any old sporting goods store.
"Just another firearm"
Now thats Classy smooth. [;)]
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Del:
I owed that to the 50 caliber shooters.
Here's the story:
About 2.5 years ago I got in a McMillan Boomer in .50 that we had on gun tech.
This was about 6 months before the folks in Congress started stirring up the .50 controversy.
But there was no controversy then so we said, "what can we do with this thing?"
And since I had occasionally said some smart aleck line in reference to big caliber guns like:
"Or in case you need to shoot a hole in an engine block."
We said, "hey, this thing will actually do that!"
So we dragged an old small block from the Horsepower Show down to the range...
and got a nice tight shot (video) and blew a couple of holes through the cylinders.
Then we lined up 6 cinder (bricko) blocks in a line...
and blew them all down and into powder with another shot.
Great TV! Very entertaining!
And we were talking about how the Seals use the McMillan action for their teams. (seen Navy Seals movie?)
So it all seemed to be appropriate... until...
Congress starts up... CBS News runs an investigative piece on shooting through limo armor...
AND TNN re-runs the show right in the middle of the "let's ban 'em" outcry.
Needless to say, the .50 Cal Shooters were really pissed, and not much interested that we'd done the piece
before anyone suspected they would become the next gun ban focus.
So I owed 'em a rational explanation of their sport this time around.
Jim Scoutten
PS: All the Gun Techs for this season are now "in the can" and, if I tell you what's in 'em...
I'll have to choose one of the black rifles we're going to be showing and use it on you.
(Two edits to get this stuff to fit on the screen. What's with this no word wrap deal?)