Long Barrel, Titanic Era Rifle

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#11 Post by **meles meles** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:43 pm

Sandgroper wrote:
christel wrote: No carbines for me.
What's wrong with carbines?

Carbines are fun! clapclap

Not when it comes to push of pike....

#12 Post by **Sandgroper** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:49 pm

meles meles wrote:
Not when it comes to push of pike....

Considering a pike would between 10-25 ft in length - even with a full length rifle, that's a bit of stretch! :lol:

#13 Post by **meles meles** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:56 pm

Good enough reason to keep a canned bang or two ready in the magazine then...

#14 Post by **Sandgroper** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:58 pm

And with a carbine you get more bang for your buck! :shakeshout:

#15 Post by **Christel** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:58 pm

idge wrote:I always fancied one of the original Portuguese mausers chambered in 6.5x58 , beautifully made rifles.

Barrel is short ish, some 23.6 inches me thinks. Looks good.

#16 Post by **Christel** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:03 pm

Carbines are not that good at long distance...they normally give up around the 500-600 meters. Actually one has to work hard to get accuracy out of them at that distance...more fair to say 300m :)

#17 Post by **Sandgroper** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:13 pm

christel wrote:Carbines are not that good at long distance...they normally give up around the 500-600 meters. Actually one has to work hard to get accuracy out of them at that distance...more fair to say 300m :)

And the problem with that is...?

I don't shoot past 600m so it isn't a problem for me. Anyway, I like the handiness of a carbine (all my rifles bar one are carbines

) and at short range you hit the target with the bullet, muzzle blast and flash! clapclap

To paraphrase Blackstuff: Short Gun = Fun!

#18 Post by **meles meles** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:17 pm

Did you perchance have a hand in designing the English Electric Lightning ?

#19 Post by **Sandgroper** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:28 pm

Unfortunately not.

#20 Post by **dave_303** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:29 pm

How about a Long Lee Enfield?

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