I wager this wont come to the UK, Full Auto Air rifle

[BillMasen]

 

[lonewolf]

nope I doubt it too.

 

[jontte]

you can only dream,mate,you can only dream...

 

[lonewolf]

I don't need fully auto, if you don't hit it the first time the prey is usually gone by the second, don't see the point of multiple firings.

 

[DrHenley]

I don't need fully auto, if you don't hit it the first time the prey is usually gone by the second, don't see the point of multiple firings.

Damn bigpaul, what kind of prey have you got there that can disappear in a tenth of a second?

 

[lonewolf]

one shot is usually enough, if I miss then they are gone before I can line up again, i'm looking at small game, anything larger would need a regular firearm for which a licence is needed, we don't have the large game you have in the US, biggest is a Red Deer or a Wild Boar.

 

[DrHenley]

Bigpaul, do you know what "fully auto" means?

 

[lonewolf]

Bigpaul, do you know what "fully auto" means?

I can imagine. wouldn't be my thing even if it was available here.

 

[DrHenley]

It means you pull the trigger and it starts firing rapidly while you hold the trigger down. There is no "lining up again" for a second shot.

 

[lonewolf]

okay I knew that, its academic anyway I don't see it being allowed into the UK.

 

[VenomJockey]

Wouldn't mind having one of these!

 

[tmttactical]

I really like them until a really nice man pointed out the price tag, $1,999.99. That really dampened my desire to own one. Life is tough when your middle name is Cheap and the last name is Cheaper.

 

[lonewolf]

don't see the point of a fully auto air rifle.

 

[GaRp58]

Life is tough when your middle name is Cheap and the last name is Cheaper.

We must be related or cousins or sumthin' UP, my last name is Dirtcheap...

 

[tmttactical]

don't see the point of a fully auto air rifle.

Just to have fun with, no real defensive or hunting value but just plain fun to shoot. That disappeared at the mention of it's price tag. I might rent one at eh rifle range , just to play with but I ain't buying one, that is for sure. Me and "DirtCheap" ain't going for it.

 

[Kevin L]

There used to be a full auto bb gun that ran on cannisters of air-conditioning coolant. It was pretty bad-ass. If you didn't like someone, you could destroy their car.

It might seem stupid to suggest home defense with a bb gun, but at 3,000 per minute at 750 feet per second....it will "put your eye out" like mom always said about anything that was fun.

I wouldn't want to have someone spraying my face and head down with bb shots at 3,000 per minute. It would certainly buy me a reaction gap that I could use to follow up with a baseball bat.

 

[GaRp58]

Haven't seen that in about 50 years. You could sandblast a car and take all the windows out at the same time. You needed a big magnet to try and get as many BBs back as possible and use them again even tho you weren't supposed to reuse them. Are they still on the market? GP

 

[lonewolf]

I've got a small gun that fires plastic pellets, I think that's what you mean by BB's? got it to scare off the neighbour hood cats but haven't used it yet.

 

[BillMasen]

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[lonewolf]

if you pull that out at any British air rifle gun club I bet you get a few raised eyebrows.

 

[VenomJockey]

I've got a small gun that fires plastic pellets, I think that's what you mean by BB's? got it to scare off the neighbour hood cats but haven't used it yet.

If it shoots plastic bbs it's what they call an "air soft" pistol. What we are talking about shoots metal bbs (usually copper or steel), or pellets, and is much more powerful than the air soft ones.

https://www.airsoftstation.com/gas-airsoft-pistols/

https://topairgun.com/22-caliber-pre-charged-pneumatic-air-hand-guns/

 

[lonewolf]

If it shoots plastic bbs it's what they call an "air soft" pistol. What we are talking about shoots metal bbs (usually copper or steel), or pellets, and is much more powerful than the air soft ones.

https://www.airsoftstation.com/gas-airsoft-pistols/

https://topairgun.com/22-caliber-pre-charged-pneumatic-air-hand-guns/

i'm not relying on it to do anymore than scare off the cats.

 

[VenomJockey]

i'm not relying on it to do anymore than scare off the cats.

Oh, it'll do that Give them a painful sting, too.....but won't hurt them much physically. The PCP/CO2 pistols we're talking about would kill the cat.

 

[lonewolf]

Oh, it'll do that Give them a painful sting, too.....but won't hurt them much physically. The PCP/CO2 pistols we're talking about would kill the cat.

i'm not going to shoot AT the cat, just over its head to scare it off, its just that they crap on my garden.

 

[Kevin L]

Haven't seen that in about 50 years. You could sandblast a car and take all the windows out at the same time. You needed a big magnet to try and get as many BBs back as possible and use them again even tho you weren't supposed to reuse them. Are they still on the market? GP

No. They haven't been on the market for decades....although they can still be obtained for a hefty price from some specialty collectors.

The freon that they used is no longer available (it was destroying the ozone layer), and there are no similar coolant cannisters that are compatible with regards to the thread size on the screw-in fittings.

A lot of things from the 80s disappeared.

You can no longer buy a ballistic "Spetsnaz" knife (although it's doubtful that Spetsnaz ever actually used them. It appears to have been a marketing gimmick.)

There was even a series of men's adventure novels written around this style of knife.

The writers literally took a weapon, and then crafted the story from it.

As a writer myself, I find it odd to find a narrative that seems like it was almost written from the viewpoint of a weapon.

Not in the first person, not in the third person...but almost from a knife's viewpoint.

I would love to add such a knife to my collection . . . but I would make the blade a differentially tempered and layered one like a Japanese katana, I would make the grip non-conductive, and I would coat it in a self-lubricating, non-reflective material . . . like Cerakote.

I would also have it constructed in such a way that it could be used under water, like a dive knive, and--perhaps--build fittings into the grip so that I could use it on the end of a rifle as a bayonet.

Someday, if I ever have tons of money, I'll find a custom knifemaker to build this toy for me.