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LOL. That first lady was wearing an OMON uniform and had a ski mask on her shoulder. I'd love to see her step in to the ring with that Washington DC cop.

What did CTD do? I haven't visited Impact Guns in quite a while but I see now that they have .50AE Desert Eagle barrels for $335. I might have to pick one up as I am planning to convert my Desert Eagle from .44 Magnum MARK VII to .50AE MARK XIX.

LMBO. That one was actually funny. My only long-range claim to fame is pistol shooting at 300 yards with iron sights. We DO have a 1000 yard range around here. In fact, it's where they hold the 1000 yard iron sight Olympic championships. Back when I had an Enfield No.4 I thought about trying it at that range just for fun but never got around to it.

I've only seen 2 and both were terrible.

I got run off the high road for hitting some of the board's regulars with allot of those same points. The way they put it was funny but the points are much more then a laughing matter. BTW. I LOVE his point about getting an old surplus rifle. Allot of people apparently forgot that those old bolt actions shared the battlefield with machine guns and still held their own. I hold very strongly that; assuming you have access to ammo for it or convert it to .308, the Lee Enfield No.4 is still one of the most usable and versatile rifles on earth.

My experience with Clint Eastwood movies is they're only any good when he's the star and NOT the director.

Does it REALLY run that deep in people?

Can someone explain to me why people do this? I mean, yes, I know a guy who likes to BS with people and casually makes such claims among other wild things and I've seen stuff like that before many times. I don't quite understand it, but at least the whole, "impulse" factor offers at least some reasonable explanation. But to go out of your way to spend $ on a military uniform and make your way to some event dressed as a soldier...... that's allot more then spare of the moment BS. Who the hell goes to that much trouble to try and convince people they're a soldier? What the hell has to be going through your head for you to do that?

LOL. I guess shooting them is better then having them run from a cat screaming, "MEEEE NOOOOT YUMMY!!"

NOOO!! POOR MOUSY!!!

I work with scissors allot and am a hand craftsman just like them, which means I understand the value and importance of such products. Or to put in simple terms, I'm going to have to get me a set.

LOL

The .357 Magnum MARK I shoots like a normal gun. But the .44 Magnum MARK VII up are totally different ballgames. IMO, the .357 Magnum MARK I is the only Desert Eagle that's actually a practical firearm. The rest are just big fireworks with killing potential. Despite what the owner says, the gun in this scene is actually a .44 Magnum MARK VII, not the claimed .50AE. The part where he's shooting at the wall gives a pretty good sense of how the gun really shoots. That is to say, the recoil you imagine by watching it is probably not far from the way it really shoots.

HAY!! That's a great idea!! Update. I called up MRI today with the speaker phone on and him very close and asked them if they do or ever made a liquid cooled Desert Eagle or know any aftermarket companies who make such an add on. He said no and I thanked him and hung up. Not another word has been said in this debate ever since.

I'd love to do that but I have nothing to fit it to. I have an LR308 pattern rifle with a free floating tube if that counts, and I HAVE been itching to replace the forend. I get carbon fiber for cheap in a relative sense. That is, $35 per yardx50in plus $20 shipping regardless of quantity http://www.fiberglassflorida.com/index.php/carbon/2x2-twill-carbon.html and epoxy resin for $55 per gallon AFTER S&H if I buy 7.5 gallons at a time. http://www.fiberglassflorida.com/epoxy-resin.html That's about half as much as the next best deal I know of but that's still going to leave an entire rifle stock like that (which needs internal reinforcement to handle .308 recoil) as much as $70-$100 in sheer cost. I MAY try it at some point though, after I first learn the ropes by duplicating M14 stocks. But that's not an immediate future project as I am spending my larger amounts of time, carbon fiber and $ on my car project. I was thinking more along the line of handguard, grip, Misc. accessories etc. I DO like the idea of lightening the .308 AR with it. I've been thinking for a while about trying my hands at a CF lower receiver. btw. CF has to be stacked or curved in order to be strong. You could probably stand on a single layered half dome (bowl shape) but you can snap a flat sheet of it like a cookie. Since stacking it can cause the weight to go up very fast, you're mostly going to be stuck with curved surfaces for weight savings and durability.

Both cute and cool!

You're just looking for a reason to throw me behind bars, aren't you? Me likes those grips. Plus they still have the housing for the automatic slide release in them. And believe it or not, I have experience in cleaning up the rubber Hogue makes their grips out of. I can't make them like new again but I'm going to clean them up really good and straighten them back out again.

LOL. Somehow I knew someone was going to mention something about dunking the gun in liquid. I'm with you 100% on everything but the cycle rate of a Desert Eagle. Maybe the .357 is super fast but the .44 through .50AE....no way. You can actually feel the slide "thadump" when you fire it much like an AK but even slower.

I recently discovered that I am good with this material and I get it at pretty good prices. I am thinking about making something gun related out of it. Any suggestions?

THAT IS COOL!!!

LOL. Yeah, that's another point. Have you ever seen the cycle rate on a Desert Eagle? It's an AK47 in slow motion. That in a gun with a 7 (.50AE) to 10 (.357) round magazine. I watched a destruction test on an AR15 which has a similar barrel thickness but produces much more friction heat. They went through something like 300-500 rounds in full auto while reloading at a pretty modest rate before the barrel finally gave. Desert Eagle is probably 1/3 the cycle speed of an AR15 and; at most, 1/3 the ammo capacity. I'll have to call MRI and ask them if they ever managed to get a barrel failure during destruction testing but I personally can't see how you're going to pull that off even intentionally. The Desert Eagle has to be pretty low on the list of guns that could ever possibly benefit in any practical way from a water jacket.

Beware of the pits of despair!!

A friend of mine swears up and down that the people who make the Desert Eagle (which would be MRI, IMI CMI and IWI) make or made a liquid cooled Desert Eagle and swears he has one. Firstly, I AM aware of the use of water jackets in early machine guns as well as some modern artillery and I DID ask to see his Desert Eagles, which he has not shown me yet though to be fair to him, he hasn't had much of an opportunity to do so as of yet. Furthermore, I myself have a Desert Eagle in .44 Magnum and helped CMI improve the followers to the Desert Eagle factory magazines in exchange for several magazines for my own gun. Needless to say, I am no fool when it comes to the inner workings of this gun. To me the biggest problem with a liquid cooling system for the Desert Eagle is that; for it to work effectively it would have to encircle the barrel and the barrel of the Desert Eagle is heavily integrated with many other functions of the gun, so adding a water jacket to a Desert Eagle, much like any other modern handgun would cripple most of the guns other mandatory functions if you could even do it without downright removing essential components like the slide. But the fellow also says that this is well known and well used technology in modern firearms and has even gone so far as accusing me of being poorly educated, way behind or something like that for not being aware of it. I already know the overall truth as I have pointed out, but literally for the sake of argument, can someone explain to me any truth behind any of these claims, if anything at all?

Phone service recycled!! Here you go.

Pretty impressive. I can't say I'm surprised. WWII vets have a pretty extensive history of reminding us what sort of stuff they did. My favorite being the two guys who died trying to rob an Australian tour bus that happened to have 2 US Marine WWII vets on board.