[geeks] Re: [rescue] Octane R10K/175 CPU module available

[Kurt Huhn]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:19:45 -0500
Phil Stracchino wrote:

> 
> Did you know, by the way, that .50AE (as seen in the Desert Eagle) is
> ballistically equivalent to a .50-90 Sharps?
> 

I did not know that.  I'll take your word for it, as I'm not all that
familiar with those major calibers.

> That's another thing I want to try shooting someday, just to see what
> it shoots like.
> 

In a Desert Eagle, it's rather tame.  I don't know about any other guns.
 In a Desert Eagle it feels roughly equiv to my 1911, but that's just
percieved/felt recoil.


> > I do own a .50 in a single shot, but it takes pyrodex and a saboted
> > projectile.  ;)
> 
> .45 slug in a .50 sabot?
> 

Yup.  I like the way it shoots.  Much flatter than a .50 gas-check.

> 
> So now, they DO make "a bluidy .700 Nitro Express".....    :)
> 
> 

Dear God.  *counts pennies*  That's not enough, I'm sure....

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