Rob ([info]comkilserv) wrote,
@ 2005-10-26 11:40:00
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WHAT AN UGLY LINK...sorry...

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jrxtoys.com/images/gfg/jesper_gfg_JRX/toys/gi-joe/Logos/85SHIPWRECK1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jrxtoys.com/html/TOYS/GI-JOE/JRX_Start_TOYS_GI_JOE_1.htm&h=142&w=94&sz=9&tbnid=ZWc0QWVhh6UJ:&tbnh=88&tbnw=58&hl=en&start=58&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dshipwreck%2Bgi%26start%3D40%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

first: can anyone help me out with just what the hell the spikey things shipwreck has are? my best guess so far is that they're those tire-stoppers one would put on either side of the tires on an aircraft (used as a weapon by indiana jones, if i remember right...or maybe the brunette lady that was better than the other two indy-chicks)

second: if i get a pistol that looks REMOTELY like the one that came with shipwreck am i BOUND BY LAW to paint it silver? i think i ought to be..

third: why did they ruin the gi joe franchise again? i keep forgetting. [info]dragodonna and i saw a little of the saturday morning cartoon and we couldn't even tell which of the characters were FEMALE. and there was a robot dog that peed on something to save the day. and then it cried. i think. i dunno...it was HORRIBLE.

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[info]slave2tehtink
2005-10-26 11:39 pm UTC (link)
Reading the text on the card, those are apparently "boarding hooks" which I'm assuming is land-lubber-ese for grappling hooks.

I would also like to note that 1) They really, really screwed up his rank insignia. It's on the wrong damn arm, the eagle is in the wrong damn place, and oh, yeah, HE'S A CHIEF PETTY OFFICER IN THE WRONG DAMN UNIFORM. Wearing, I might add, THE WRONG DAMN COVER.

Also, the Navy hasn't used percussion pistols since, um, I dunno, revolvers became state of the art.

I am now done snarking the poor helpless GI JOE Action Figure.

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[info]chairtomorrow
2005-10-27 01:59 am UTC (link)
Do I need to smoke lady Jaye for wearing Airborne?


Probly not...sorry.

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[info]comkilserv
2005-10-27 12:55 pm UTC (link)
not to mention DOUBLE BARRELLED ones


with SCOPES

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[info]slave2tehtink
2005-10-27 04:08 pm UTC (link)
I'm viciously boggled by the concept of scopes on a percussion pistol. IIRC, the barrels of percussion weapons weren't rifled, so while the scope might let you see the target really well, the odds of you hitting it are still going to be about the same as they would be if you just shot from the hip, as it were.

I think I might be getting WAY to into this "critique the GI JOE Action Figure" thing.

And I did something to my left wrist practicing off-hand shooting yesterday evening at Ye Olde Firing Range. Sucks.

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[info]chairtomorrow
2005-10-27 04:57 pm UTC (link)
Percussion rifles existed.

I believe that rifled muzzleloaders were perfected sometime during the Civil War.

Sorry...I'm an instructor.

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[info]slave2tehtink
2005-10-28 05:22 pm UTC (link)
It's ok, I'm a habitual learner, and my knowledge of firearm history is limited to "The M-14 came before the M-16, and for some weird reason the Navy insists on clinging to the M-14."

Do you know when revolvers came into widespread use, by any chance? I keep wanting to think that they were in use as sidearms during the Civil War, and as such would have been carried by Naval personnel, but there's the distinct possibility that I'm utterly wrong.

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[info]chairtomorrow
2005-10-28 06:03 pm UTC (link)
The M-14 DID come before the M-16, and the Navy is right to stick to it. Bad Guys shot with an M-16 might die from the round immediately, or they might die from it later...regardless of time of demise, as one Nam-era SEAL said, Bad Guys shot with an M-14 stay down.

Revolvers were first used in the 1830s as "pepperbox" guns (think the "Clue" pistol,) but the standard revolving-cylinder, single-barrel was widely accepted in the 1840s.

For more on the basic overview, checke the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver

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[info]comkilserv
2005-10-28 04:41 pm UTC (link)
offhand shooting is the best



*cough* for lefties *cough*

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[info]slave2tehtink
2005-10-28 05:27 pm UTC (link)
I don't know how it works for law-enforcement types, but when qualifying pistol for the Navy, offhand shooting is done ONE HANDED. This just boggles the mind. Not only must we reverse stance, etc, but now we've got to use ONLY ONE HAND for Mr. Beretta M-9. We never have to shoot single-handed with our strong hand, for heaven's sake.

But it looks like I'm going to have to lay off the offhand shooting for a bit, at least until my wrist stops claiming it has been maimed. *sigh* I'm bound and determined to practice until I can get a perfect score on the Navy's pistol qual.

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