A Nurse with a Gun

Thursday, April 12, 2007

USS Missouri

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9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks Xavier, that was impressive! Makes me want to take my Mosin Nagant M38 along on my next range trip!

8:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awesome.

8:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So I'm suppose to be impressed by a gazillion ton armor plated AMERICAN made tool of war; firing it's long guns in practice.....gasp....(inhale sharply....nostrils flaring...)

YOU DAMN BETCHA BABE I"M IMPRESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anybody have a towel!?!?!?!
Steve

10:06 PM  
Blogger Matt G said...

Wonder sight, of a bygone era. Damn it.

3:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Depending on when and where that video was shot there is a good chance I was in the area. We were part of a couple of Firexes with the Missouri heading from Southern California to Seattle for Sea Fair. It's impressive on video but when you can actually hear and feel the concussion from 2000+ yards astern it is unbelievable.

8:05 AM  
Blogger Rorschach said...

Where I used to work, we had the lathe that those barrels were turned on. It had been shipped to Houston from Pittsburgh when the Mesta Machine Co, went bankrupt. We had to cut about 20' off the bed of the lathe to fit it in the building (which was 120' lg.). The lathe was originally built right before WWII to machine steel mill rolls, which is what it was still doing when I left in 1992. Man, that was one monster lathe.

12:20 PM  
Blogger dropdownstairs said...

thanks I need to take the son and go to camp perry hey check out a box on ebay colt 38cal 465 american
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9:50 PM  
Blogger Spank That Donkey said...

That's how we should negotiate with the Iranians!

5:17 PM  
Blogger Tam said...

I have a sudden mad craving for a 16" 50-caliber naval rifle of my very own...

9:06 PM  

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