File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9907, message 388


Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 19:40:26 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Urgent: harassment/questions




On 16 Jul 1999, .. wrote:

> My questions for those of you with an interest in the practical side of  
> class war (carpo, Unka Bart....???), can you please explain what this  
> shotgun calibre 50 is and who is right about it? As far as my knowledge  
> regarding weapons goes, I very much doubt that a shotgun will have  
> "tankbreaking" qualities, especially if you're not standing right in front/ 
> next to the damn tank.


.50 caliber means the barrel tube is 1/2 inch in diameter, so the round it
shoots is 1/2 in diameter.  This is, hmmmm, damn, I forget, like the
12.7mm rooskie/Warsaw Pact machine gun round.   "Caliber" is alkays the
decimal part of an inch, so a .30 caliber is 3/10 of an inch in diameter.

What Seashepherd is talking about sounds like a .50 anti-tank rifle, which
was used in WWver2.0 and U$/NATO special operations groups are still using
as a long distance sniper rifle.  It's a Bad Boy, but it won't bust a tank
by any means and would have to hit an aluminum hulled Bradley or armored
personell carrier in a weak spot to take one of those down, and they a
death traps.

A 12 gauge shotgun, or a 16 or 20 gauge, or a 10 gauge shotgun is just
what you are calling it.  A .410 shotgun is in caliber and you'd be lucky
to kill a squirrel with one of them because they just don't oomph.

"Gauge" refers to how many perfect lead balls the diameter of the barrel
it would take to make a pound if you weighed them.  A 12 gauge would take
12 to make a pound a 16 gauge 16 and so on.  My guess is the makho are
using the rifle, or at least I would hope so.  Commercial whalers used at
least a 37mm anti-tank cannon modified to ensure the kill, all the way up
to a 75mm.  You might be able to kill a whale with a 12 gauge but it would
be touch and go. The rifle approach allows for a steel harpoon head with a
small explosive charge and a good strong steel cable connection which then
hooks up to a float so you can find the whale.

Seashepherd and company are really out of touch on this issue.  The
treaties all allow for this kind of killing and if the makho are using big
weaponry then all the better.  What'd they think would happen; the native
people would canoe out and try to stick a harpoon in the whale like they
did in Moby Dick?  As far as the "lust" for killing goes, it a rite of
passage.  Few of those are ever peaceful even in Seashepherd's culture.
Tell Seashepherd to fuck off.

I'd like to eat a whale.

A small one though; I've quit eating real food since the roadtrip and am
shrinking myself.   So a big one might put the weight I've already lost
back on me.


carp




   

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