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Old 02-08-2010, 09:19 PM
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I hate the people who falsely claim to be small arms experts too. I usually know much, much more than them about guns and I am by no means any sort of expert
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I'm not really a small arms "expert". I just know a bunch of stuff that a lot of people dont.
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Same here, but alot of people my age believe that playing Call of Duty makes them experts. Unsuprisingly, everything they say is utterly idiotic/ false
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It surprises me sometimes when I talk to people who knows absolutely nothing about guns. A girl I know who was in the Marines surprisingly didn't know what a Desert Eagle is. When I was talking with a comic book shop owner about the M1 Garand, he didn't know what that was.
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Old 02-09-2010, 04:10 AM
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How does someone not know what a Desert Eagle is? It has been in just about every single goddamn movie and video since it was put into production
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Well a lot of people have SEEN a Desert Eagle, but it wouldnt be surprising if they dont know what it is. How often in a movie do you hear it being called by its name?

Now if someone didn't know what an AK-47 is by name, then they are stupid.
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Suprisingly, I've met a few people like that
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I hate the people who falsely claim to be small arms experts too. I usually know much, much more than them about guns and I am by no means any sort of expert
I know of one guy who writes for a couple publications and outside of a 25 yard range I don't think he's ever used a firearm. I first heard about the guy when someone who admits to having only shooting a firearm once in their life tried to argue that the 5.56X45mm round was short ranged and that the 7.62X51mm NATO round was uncontrolable in Full Auto. Now I have seen a 5.56/.223 rifle shoot out past 600 yards. Heck there is a man who has used a .223 AR-15 varient to put twenty rounds in a twenty inch circle in twenty seconds at a range of 1,000 yards. The man chose the cartridge because it had low enough recoil that the weapon wouldn't be moved off target.

As for the 7.62 NATO round I have friends who use such rifles at Class 3 competitions. In addition I have friends who have used such rifles in more "political" situations and when under 100 yards such weapons can be used to shred entire squads who have made the mistake of bunching up at the bottom of hills. Unfortunatly most armies don't properly train their troops to really use the weapons they are given.
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The vets I know have no real complaints about the 5.56 being too weak. A couple have a little problem with jamming in their M16/M4s, but they are ok with the weapon.
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