Curiosity

[ToyotaBoy]

At the end of a post why do people list what firearms they own?

[Norton]

Just so people know the stuff you're familiar with or regularly shoot.

[Monty]

That's pretty much it.

If you want to talk to someone about Tikka's the guy with 3 Tikka's in his signature is a good start

There is no obligation to do this of course. If you're uncomfortable with listing your firearms or just don't want to for whatever reason that's fine.

[Vati]

Shows that people aren't talking out their ass when the talk about something if they have one I guess?

[Blackened]

Half the forum do, half the forum don't.

Whichever you choose is fine.

[Chronos]

Shows that people aren't talking out their ass when the talk about something if they have one I guess?

Assuming you do actually own and shoot the stuff you put in your signature that is

Chronos

[petemacsydney]

Because the size of a man is comparative to his firearms...
Pete

Dora Railgun (800mm cal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplMgB3tnXE

[ToyotaBoy]

Well that makes perfect sense guys.

Thanks heaps.

[Vati]

Assuming you do actually own and shoot the stuff you put in your signature that is

Well, my comment is hopefully right... With the exception of the occasional tosser.

[roob]

Dora Railgun (800mm cal)

That is one bad-ass train...

[whert]

But it's still Cat B license, right?

[petemacsydney]

nah, its a rim fire..

[Mark TAC]

I was all set to make an analogy between heaps of stickers on lowered loud Toyotas

[whert]

Oh, so just for 10m target shooting then?

[Seconds]

Might have some problems with ricochet or blowback and 10m I think...

[samf]

What the heeeell was that for shooting at?

[sooey]

I don't think it was really ever used.

I saw it in a WW2 documentary. They fired a few hundred rounds testing it and destroyed the barrel, and while replacing it I think the war ended?

[Brute]

Here you go. From Wikipedia.

The siege of Sevastopol was the gun's first combat test. Installation began in early May, and by 5 June the gun was ready to fire. The following targets were engaged:

5 June
Coastal guns at a range of 25,000 m. Eight shells fired.
Fort Stalin. Six shells fired.

6 June
Fort Molotov. Seven shells fired.
"White Cliff" aka "Ammunition Mountain": an undersea ammunition magazine in Severnaya ("Northern") Bay. The magazine was sited 30 metres under the sea with at least 10 metres of concrete protection. After nine shells were fired, the magazine was ruined and one of the boats in the bay sunk.[4]

7 June
Firing in support of an infantry attack on Südwestspitze, an outlying fortification. Seven shells fired.

11 June
Fort Siberia. Five shells fired.

17 June
Fort Maxim Gorki and its coastal battery. Five shells fired.

By the end of the siege on 4 July the city of Sevastopol lay in ruins, and 30,000 tons of artillery ammunition had been fired. Gustav had fired 48 rounds and worn out its original barrel, which had already fired around 250 rounds during testing and development. The gun was fitted with the spare barrel and the original was sent back to Krupp's factory in Essen for relining.

The gun was then dismantled and moved to the northern part of the eastern front, where an attack was planned on Leningrad. The gun was placed 30 km from the city near the railway station of Taizy. The gun was fully operational when the attack was cancelled. The gun then spent the winter of 1942/43 near Leningrad.

The gun appears to have been destroyed to prevent its capture some time before 22 April 1945, when its ruins were discovered in a forest 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Auerbach about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Chemnitz.

So yeah, 48 rounds fired.

[Chronos]

Err 298, 250 In testing and 48 in battle. Barrel worn out. It's wonder they bothered with the successes of the V1 and V2 rockets over the English Channel but I guess they lacked the pin point accuracy required for the siege

Strange that the 18" guns used by the Japanese had a range of 45km

Chronos

[Brute]

Yeah 298 total.

It was designed for war though and only shot 48 in battle, so that's what I'd count as "use" for it.