Aren't you glad are cops are not in the revenue game?

[mtechnik]

I soo enjoyed that game

[LINUS]

i've never fired anything but .45 and .357 pistols. now that I think about it, using a .50 cal on a camera would be a huge waste of expensive ammo.

OK - I'm glad you see what I am getting at. Besides, Armalite is a company that I'm positive keeps track of who gets what rifle, especially the T model of the AR-10,AR-30's (all), and the AR-50.

Last time I was in NV at a range renting MAC-11's (gotta love full auto states), I struck up conversation with a guy who had a AR-30 in .338 Lapua and he was nice enough to let me sqeeze off 3 rounds with that monster. I am very familiar with .308 Winchester, so I wasn't thinking I too far out of my zone.

I was VERY wrong. I think this is a devastating round, and if I was to choose between a AR-30 in .338L or a AR-50 - yep, the 30. I've never even held a AR-50, but judging by these specs:

http://www.armalite.com/sales/catalog/rifles/ar50.htm

I'm fairly sure I would need a custom gun safe to house a 50 without breaking it down, plus packing a 5' 35# gun wouldn't be any fun. Plus the fact you would vaporize a deer if you had any plan to do anything besides kill people wearing body armor.

I bet hitting a traffic cam with one of these would tear the whole thing loose, sending it to the ground as scrap metal, and in the process making the local news and becoming popular with local law, where if you break the lense with a BB gun / slingshot at least there would be a few 'free' days before DOT could get to repairing the camera.

[LINUS]

there is one benefit: the courts (at least the one in our county) don't really take the WASP too seriously. I have met some really cool WASP officers but most of them are idiots with a power trip.. the judges know this and will drop a ticket instantly if you have a decent argument. :)

Ok - I'll give that much, sadly aside from one close friend I never got a 'cool' trooper for a traffic stop, and the friend who was a stater got hired by Skagit Co. as a sheriff couple years back.

[mrsleeve]

Linus I am not mistake isnt the .338 a wwII era anti aircraft round? I know the 303 was in wwI and I think I remember reading that .338 was also.

[LINUS]

Linus I am not mistake isnt the .338 a wwII era anti aircraft round? I know the 303 was in wwI and I think I remember reading that .338 was also.

Quite possibly. I was told it was a sniper specific duty round engineered in the early 80's, and then gaining some popularity ~10 yrs. later. It was the first round the AR-30 was chambered for, but I really only recall 30's being on the market in the last ~5 years. It's also available as .308W , and one other - I forget what - it's on the Armalite site though.
There's really seldom an original idea these days, so maybe it's based on the WW1 round you know of. I wouldn't be surprised.

[Fidhle007]

^ your sig still makes me lol.

[ptownTSI]

I am so glad this stuff doesn't fly in the states, although we have license plate frames that block the camera from being able to take a picture anyways.

[mtechnik]

Well...cross ur fingers that the authorities don't get hungry for cash and start using speed cameras. I myself can't rock those tinted license plate covers like I used to. :sad:

Over here decorative frames & covers have never been on the market with exacption of those fugly fake chrome frames recently that are "legal""

[LINUS]

Well...cross ur fingers that the authorities don't get hungry for cash and start using speed cameras. I myself can't rock those tinted license plate covers like I used to. :sad:

Over here decorative frames & covers have never been on the market with exacption of those fugly fake chrome frames recently that are "legal""

^^^^ Truth. WA law says 'no decorative covers' either. And to add insult to injury, as they develop more & more reflective paint/coatings, they swap out your plates every ~6 years. And to top it off, you pay like $8 charge for the plates - not the full $35-$45 for new plates, but there is still a charge and that is the only reason they change the plates. I asked the gal at the courthouse since I got handed new plates for my Cruiser last year, And that was the exact reason she gave me.

[mrsleeve]

yup here in mi, they are swaping out our trade mark blue plate for white ones this year, more reflective would be my guess. and charging us 15 apice just to do the mandatory swap.

[LINUS]

^ your sig still makes me lol.

Heh - yeah, I was going to change it after he got banned, but I still grin at the fact that he said that to someone. I was going to make Mr. Deagle my new target, but he wasn't nearly fun enough to make the cut. At least that 452345252- 789708-78 guy was somewhat whitty, even if he was a little mental. Deagle was just pathetic. After seeing that pic of him. p3wing Deagle would be like picking on a retarded kid, or winning the special olympics.