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Jan. 27th, 2009 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsEven though you can google the internet for anything nowadays, sometimes its unpossible to search for certain things. Like if you know a tune to a song (but not the lyrics, or if its just instrumental) you can't really do a search on that. I mean, many of you know it took forever for me to figure out the brassy song was Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good".
But like last night's ep of 24, that snazzy new sniper rifle Jack was using, it was something I'd never seen before. Its like how do I google for that? "24 sniper rifle season 7 1:00pm 2:00pm"? I was thinking it might be this new ASW modular sniper rifle from AIG and chambered in .338 Lapua. But I could just be blending the images in my head because those are the two newest sniper rifles I've seen. Plus, it just debuted at the Shot Show last week, so it would be weird for a show to already be using it.
And it would be total overkill for Jack to be using a .338 lapua at those ranges! I mean, he was hiding in the rafters pretty close by, it prolly wasn't even 100 feet. And the .338 is like the in-between round between the standard 7.62mm and the .50 caliber! Its for ranges of 1000m plus!
But speaking of Shot Show 2009, that SMGLee guy has a bunch of pics posted from it on these threads. Lots of cool stuff there. The stuff from KAC is kinda amusing. I have no idea what the hell that first thing is supposed to be. Its like a Stoner LMG with an underbarrel grenade launcher but the trigger and handles are like that of a chainsaw. What would it even be used for? You could only fire it from the hip, and the grenade launcher is practically unusable from that position. I guess its a joke?
But as another example of the various programs they have for the iphone, they have a picatinny mount for the iphone so you can mount it on one of the side rails of the M110 SASS and use it to run a ballistic calculator. And since its right there on the front side rail, you don't even have to take your hands off the weapon to use it, and its also right there in your field of view.
Oh, and I can't believe I spent yesterday afternoon learning about bueroza, brachina, dogai, excruciarchs, merregons, narzugons, and orthons. I wouldn't call myself an expert now, but I think I could be somewhat conversant on them.
But like last night's ep of 24, that snazzy new sniper rifle Jack was using, it was something I'd never seen before. Its like how do I google for that? "24 sniper rifle season 7 1:00pm 2:00pm"? I was thinking it might be this new ASW modular sniper rifle from AIG and chambered in .338 Lapua. But I could just be blending the images in my head because those are the two newest sniper rifles I've seen. Plus, it just debuted at the Shot Show last week, so it would be weird for a show to already be using it.
And it would be total overkill for Jack to be using a .338 lapua at those ranges! I mean, he was hiding in the rafters pretty close by, it prolly wasn't even 100 feet. And the .338 is like the in-between round between the standard 7.62mm and the .50 caliber! Its for ranges of 1000m plus!
But speaking of Shot Show 2009, that SMGLee guy has a bunch of pics posted from it on these threads. Lots of cool stuff there. The stuff from KAC is kinda amusing. I have no idea what the hell that first thing is supposed to be. Its like a Stoner LMG with an underbarrel grenade launcher but the trigger and handles are like that of a chainsaw. What would it even be used for? You could only fire it from the hip, and the grenade launcher is practically unusable from that position. I guess its a joke?
But as another example of the various programs they have for the iphone, they have a picatinny mount for the iphone so you can mount it on one of the side rails of the M110 SASS and use it to run a ballistic calculator. And since its right there on the front side rail, you don't even have to take your hands off the weapon to use it, and its also right there in your field of view.
Oh, and I can't believe I spent yesterday afternoon learning about bueroza, brachina, dogai, excruciarchs, merregons, narzugons, and orthons. I wouldn't call myself an expert now, but I think I could be somewhat conversant on them.
