tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post3237223164770636416..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Blast from the past.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-76295291847545066532010-03-30T16:59:01.371-04:002010-03-30T16:59:01.371-04:00David --
If he was talking about a .45ACP MAC-10...David -- <br /><br />If he was talking about a .45ACP MAC-10 with the wood stock, he may well have been correct. {grin}<br /><br />Adding the suppressor DOES make them remarkeably more effective at longer ranges. . . partially be reducing felt recoil, partially becuase they're just easier to hang on to when you're not stuck with the stupid luggage strap.<br /><br />It ain't that the suppressor makes the GUN awesomely more accurate -- in this case, it makes the gun easier <i>to handle</i>.Geodkythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328915597574377444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-84004777361215270212010-03-29T21:07:35.568-04:002010-03-29T21:07:35.568-04:00Yeah, Those were really good books. Glad I read t...Yeah, Those were really good books. Glad I read them both several times.Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78430069023602009122010-03-27T21:15:22.457-04:002010-03-27T21:15:22.457-04:00Studley Constable would make a good skirmish game ...Studley Constable would make a good skirmish game -- well-led Fallschirmjäger against execrably led (Bobby Shaftoe) Rangers. Even so, the Rangers couldn't have the numerical advantage they enjoyed in the book -- their firepower advantage was ridiculous enough, with a couple of Ma Deuces and a White scout car.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-74695804963430176572010-03-27T15:45:17.358-04:002010-03-27T15:45:17.358-04:00Well, dammit, if I'd known you hadn't know...Well, dammit, if I'd known you hadn't known about it, I would have told you long ago. Would have even loaned you the paperback when you were still in K Town.<br /><br />( Also, hope you're well. Been away for a while. -- B )Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-25462113857960954042010-03-27T15:29:57.028-04:002010-03-27T15:29:57.028-04:00Jack Higgins is fun, although his firearms knowled...Jack Higgins is fun, although his firearms knowledge is kind of "British". He's getting better though. Some of his later books are obviously thrown together for the bucks, but generally always a fair to fun read.Ed Fosternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-19937090181193022772010-03-27T12:36:53.336-04:002010-03-27T12:36:53.336-04:00Was reading a book just this week where the author...Was reading a book just this week where the author allowed as how adding a suppressor to a SMG increased it's effective range by at least 75 meters...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06446927106954011102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-88290798931035881912010-03-27T10:50:01.983-04:002010-03-27T10:50:01.983-04:00More wandering the bookstores and libraries for yo...More wandering the bookstores and libraries for you, you didn't know about The Eagle has Flown? What other joys you may have missed? I thought he was worth bringing back, but real life doesn't allow it, aren't authors great?Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794620086508373660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-90557805135989813032010-03-27T10:42:53.862-04:002010-03-27T10:42:53.862-04:00Tam, thank you for your use of the language. You ...Tam, thank you for your use of the language. You can "piffle" (as Dorothy Sayers called it in the Lord Peter books) with the best of them. "...[B]uckles getting swashed and derring being done," is irresistible. And that's just the side dish. Your blog is like, "Here's a big helping of substance, oh and a bunch of other yummy stuff too!" Anyway, thanks.Crowndothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65066862000510298852010-03-27T10:30:26.981-04:002010-03-27T10:30:26.981-04:00Thick ankles, those. Very like a tree, no doubt.
...Thick ankles, those. Very like a tree, no doubt.<br /><br />Strangerstrangerhttp://extranosalley.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-79764433788061410182010-03-27T09:51:22.307-04:002010-03-27T09:51:22.307-04:00Great movie despite the technical lapses.Great movie despite the technical lapses.Jay Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675222068101817220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-30293121824143190382010-03-27T09:34:01.103-04:002010-03-27T09:34:01.103-04:00It's not just movies, in my experience, Tam.
...It's not just movies, in my experience, Tam.<br /><br />I was chatting in a forum with a group of people I consider intelligent and knowledgeable about firearms who were making the blanket claim that suppressors would allow one to shoot without hearing protection at all.<br /><br />Even after linking a video I had taken of me firing a 9mm AR with integral suppressor firing subsonic ammo <i>where you can clearly hear each shot</i>, the only response was "well, the suppressor must not be working".<br /><br />*shrug*<br /><br />I guess I <b>expect</b> it from Hollywood, that's the difference...Jay Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085873775096542015noreply@blogger.com