RetiredUSNChief
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What is the best rifle ever made?
Well, I've always been partial to the 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun.
Hard to argue against 303,621,566 ft-lbs of energy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16"/50_caliber_Mark_7_gun
What is the best rifle ever made?
Well, I've always been partial to the 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun.
Hard to argue against 303,621,566 ft-lbs of energy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16"/...ber_Mark_7_gun
Hmmm. Now that's an interesting thread topic, but we'd have to phrase it in a way that includes guns -- THR rule.Well if nothing else, the question has revealed the tightly-wound amongst us.
Had someone pondered the meaning of life, heads might have exploded.
Correction.me said:Mine is a C in .30-30.
USNChief's comment relates to a topic I've thought about a lot lately: tanks.Well, I've always been partial to the 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun.
Hard to argue against 303,621,566 ft-lbs of energy...
I'll raise that post to a pre war M70. Very different guns then the post war'sPre '64 Winchester Model 70.
Yes. Few understand just how different the pre and post war M70's are. The machining and attention to detail on the pre war guns is fantastic. The post war guns took many shortcuts.jim in Anchorage
I was thinking the same thing: pre-war Model 70 in .30-06.
Yes you simply can't afford a skilled machinist to spend hours on a factory gun like they did in the 1930's.^ It's so sad that that sort of decline in quality over time happens so often with rifles. One would have hoped that it would consistently improve. Of course, economics is the ruler.