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Thursday, December 21. 2006

M200 Carbine

Welcome to the Farm, Canadian Gun Nutz! Man, what a storm of new visitors. Please check us out, while visiting. You might like us.

This sniper carbine made by CheyTac is functionally accurate at over 2 km. It has an integrated computer, a weather station, and has night vision, of course. With the CheyTac round, it set the world record for smallest group size at distance.

This is pretty standard as the Iraq sniper weapon now.  CheyTac is necking the .408 down to .375 and the 32-inch drop at 1500 yards is reduced to 21 inches. (The WW1 .50 cal drops 12.5 feet.)

Mr. Free Market would love one for foxes, and we'd like to find one in our Christmas stocking for popping rats down at the dump. Doubt the cops will mind, if we let them play with it.

It's the kind of weapon that makes a fellow wish they were young enough to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to try their hand with this baby on a few Jihadist Moslems. Gently but firmly introduce them to their waiting virgins, or to eternal darkness. Whatever.
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How right you are sir. Just think of how the GFWs would hate it! In fact one of the things about our great gun laws is that bolt action .50 cals are completely legal.

http://www.fcsa.co.uk/index.htm

May be there is some hope for us yet!

Merry Xmas to all of you down on the farm
#1 Mr Free Market (Link) on 2006-12-21 19:16 (Reply)
knew you'd enjoy
#2 bird dog on 2006-12-21 20:27 (Reply)
Maybe next year Santa will bring me a lefty McMillan. Nah, I'll have to buy it myself...
#3 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2006-12-23 15:23 (Reply)
Sexy, but legal in the PRC (people's republic of canada)
#4 Sean on 2006-12-28 02:00 (Reply)
I mean is it legal in the PRC?
#5 Sean on 2006-12-28 02:03 (Reply)
I have no idea whether it's legal in the PRC. I see no reason for it not to be available to civilians in the US, however, in some form. Problem is, where would you use it? I know of no 1 or 2 kilometer ranges!!!
#6 Gwynnie on 2006-12-28 06:35 (Reply)
1-2KM ranges??? Are you assuming it's restricted? The one thing the PRC has lots of is space.
#7 Anonymous on 2007-01-02 01:37 (Reply)
I think that I am going to have to call BS on some of your numbers, based on back of the envelope calculations.

Using a simple physics model:
x = 1/2*a*t² yields t=sqrt(2*x/a)

21" of drop gives a flight time of .33 seconds.

Assuming no air drag, a flight time of .33 sec over 1500 yards would require a muzzle velocity of 13,650 ft/sec!!!! Clearly unrealistic and air drag would make it worse.

A test (http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/408CheyTac.asp) of the .408 (not the .375) gives a muzzle velocity of 2900 ft/sec.

Using the same model as above, with a 2900 ft/sec muzzle velocity, a 21" drop occurs around 300 yards.

Several ballistics charts, on the internet, list a 12 foot drop for the .50 BMG at about 750 yards, with 1500 yard drop at about 60 feet.

Aha! I found an online ballistics calculator. Using the a .408 inch, 419 grain bullet with a BC of .903 and a 2900 ft/sec muzzle velocity (data given in the above link) I get a 20.2" drop at 300 yards and a 708.2" (59 ft) drop at 1500 yards.
(http://www.biggameinfo.com/BalCalc.aspx)
#8 Ironbear on 2007-01-04 11:07 (Reply)
Actually that should state...

...with 60 foot drop at 1500 yards.
#9 Ironbear on 2007-01-04 11:20 (Reply)
Ironbear, I'm NOT expert on this subject; but, something about your numbers doesn't look right. Are you sure you didn't add a digit, somewhere?
#10 Rufus on 2007-06-17 09:32 (Reply)

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