big and happily destructive

It may look like any other rifle, but this is a no joke lead-lobber. It's like an arm cannon. This is the .50 (read "fifty cal" or "fifty caliber") AR-50 rifle. To kinda put its size into perspective, just look at the grip. That barrel is meant to fire a 1/2 inch diameter (that's what the .50 means) bullet, and is somewhere in the range of and inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in diameter itself. The rifle itself weights somewhere in the range of 50lbs or so. Gander Mountain in Huntsville had one for a couple thousand bucks.

This rifle, although undeniably cool, is not too cost effective. The rounds it fires are around $6 a pop. That's a whole stinkin' lot, if you're not familiar with ammunition prices; I can get a box of .223 (ar-15) or 7.62 (ak-47 or sks) for that price. One bullet or 20? ...hmm.

Anyway, it is a minor goal of mine to shoot one of those. I may never own one, cause even I would rather have and shoot 2 "smaller" rifles instead of one bigger one; but just shooting this monster would make any self respecting man feel like he accomplished something... which he did: throwing enough lead to incapacitate a vehicle at a mile's distance... which is cool.

it is alive! ...-ish

Well, I'm attempting to place a couple videos upon this post...

This first video is, uh... I can't remember. I think it's the cool new sniper rifle thing (me posting stuff with guns?! *gasp!*)



This second video is (if I remember correctly) a little techno-ish beat laid down with only the gun sounds from the [uber awesome] game Call of Duty 4 (COD4).



One might ask why I can't exactly remember what videos I put on. Well, that's simple: YouTube sucks you in and attempts to steal your mind one pointless video at a time. They should put a ban on stupidity in creativity (or "creativity" with BIG quoties). Seriously, like, at least 98.7% (real[ish] statistic) of the stuff on YouTube is worthless and should be removed. YouTube, can I have the hours of my life you stole 10 seconds at a time back? A million dollar refund would suffice; time's so hard to come by these days.

And here's an AR-10. It's like the AR-15s I have only instead of the 5.56mm (.223 cal), it shoots the .308 Winchester (7.63x51mm) round. That probably means nothing to most of you, but basically it shoots a bigger bullet, but is built on the same platform. I'm thinkin of selling the AR-15 that's currently scoped, de-scoping it, purchasing one of these with the money obtained by selling the AR-15, and putting the scope on it. It's a foolproof plan! ... I think?

Either way, it's a really cool rifle. Yay for firearms! I hope I can sell/buy/replace before this December 'cause I'd love to take it hunting. A friend here at Auburn has offered to take me hunting and "show me the ropes" as-it-were. So we shall see. Even if I don't see any deer, I'd still love to dress up in full camo and play in the woods shooting guns... 'cause you better believe I'd shoot before we leave. No need in wasting good ammo... wait...?