Why you should hold the butt against your shoulder (was: Re:[SGVLUG] hp tech support! - take this!!!)

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 7/12/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> Such a fun OT just before a meeting...
>
> > -----Original Message----- Of Michael Proctor-Smith
> [...]
> > > Some of those looked like they'd not even snugged the butt
> > up against
> > > their shoulder, which would really suck. [...]
> >
> > So lesson here is to never fire a .577 T-Rex ever. But that
> > video is an example of why the video that started all this
> > was not a guy fireing a .50cal.
>
> So, I tend to exagerate... ;)  [yeah, weight and size would be a better
> reason why I was wrong on the caliber, though I was guestimating from
> the chain of bullets draped over the guy doing the vid -- then again, he
> might have donned a larger caliber "belt" for dramatic effect...]

Mike, guesses Tom not has not acctually seen a .50BMG before, as the
belt was clearly 7.62mm.
http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/photos/david_driskell/556n762n338lm408ct50bmg.jpg

> But as pointed out in the next message, THAT gun did not have a
> (semi)auto mechanism which would have taken up a significant amount of
> the "recoil"
>
> Consider a tripod-mounted .50 cal there is no way a flimsy tripod/bipod
> "mount" that you see in war vids (or, for that matter a unipod in the
> back of a jeep) would keep a gun with that much kick "on target" for the
> second shot...
>
> In any case, who wouldn't want to have this around:
>
> http://www.extremesportclips.com/video/1469/Mini-Machine-Gun.html
>
>