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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Follow-up: Why? It's a joking reference that became less of a joke with chuds over time. There has been a longstanding "rivalry" in the gun world between 9mm and .45ACP as preferred handgun ammunition. The idea is that since .45 is bigger in diameter, it has more "knockdown power" than the 9mm. The counter to that is that you get more 9mm in a magazine because of it's smaller size (compare ~9 rounds of .45ACP to ~17 rounds of 9mm) and the 9mm projectile moves much much faster due to the reduced weight . Then chuds disparage 9mm because it's metric and therefore anti-America, so since the US had used .45ACP for decades, it gets tied in with the weird deification of anything Americana, and becomes "God's Chosen Caliber" Some people refer to it as this sarcastically, some chuds refer to it like that half sarcastically to cover the fact that they're fully serious. Gun culture was a mistake. tldr: Americans don't understand physics or even the basic Newton's Laws, so they think "bigger is better", like everthing else in America blunt for century fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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Platystemon posted:It was the U.S. pistol caliber in both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, and numerous other conflicts over seven decades. I thought it was a 'stopping power' fetish about blowing bigger holes in 'wild animals'...
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It helps that the progenitor of .45 ACP, John Moses Browning, is basically Jesus to firearmphiles.
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Canuckistan posted:I thought it was a 'stopping power' fetish about blowing bigger holes in 'wild animals'... Kind of is. Part of the reason the US Army adopted .45ACP was they believed they needed a pistol round capable of killing a horse. Most of the rest of the world realised that 9mm was perfectly capable of killing a man, let you carry more ammo, was easier to shoot, and they didn't need to shoot horses nearly as much as they needed to shoot men.
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Aug 15, 2020 16:13
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Sunswipe posted:Kind of is. Part of the reason the US Army adopted .45ACP was they believed they needed a pistol round capable of killing a horse. Most of the rest of the world realised that 9mm was perfectly capable of killing a man, let you carry more ammo, was easier to shoot, and they didn't need to shoot horses nearly as much as they needed to shoot men. Not just kill a horse, stop a charging horse in its tracks with one shot. IIRC that might even be in the design documents or rfp or whatever it was. For all it has been co-opted by CHUDs, .45 acp is one hell of a round.
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Aug 15, 2020 16:16
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Are .45 rounds also way more expensive?
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Alucard posted:Are .45 rounds also way more expensive? Prices fluctuate, but a rule‐of‐thumb is that .45 is half again as expensive as 9 mm.
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Aug 15, 2020 16:24
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I work in a bearing factory and this is unbelievably triggering shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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Sunswipe posted:Kind of is. Part of the reason the US Army adopted .45ACP was they believed they needed a pistol round capable of killing a horse. Most of the rest of the world realised that 9mm was perfectly capable of killing a man, let you carry more ammo, was easier to shoot, and they didn't need to shoot horses nearly as much as they needed to shoot men. Nah, it was racism. .38 couldn't stop these doped up natives, get a bigger bullet! No idea where the horse thing came from.
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iwentdoodie posted:Nah, it was racism. .38 couldn't stop these doped up natives, get a bigger bullet! No idea where the horse thing came from. They probably were known for riding horses. 
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Aug 15, 2020 16:59
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Not a lot of horses in the jungle in the Philippines I don't think
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iwentdoodie posted:Nah, it was racism. .38 couldn't stop these doped up natives, get a bigger bullet! No idea where the horse thing came from. Well I heard it from Ian on Forgotten Weapons, and that man knows guns and facial hair.
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iwentdoodie posted:Nah, it was racism. .38 couldn't stop these doped up natives, get a bigger bullet! No idea where the horse thing came from. Yeah, I've never heard the horse thing, I've always heard the story about it being invented expressly for genocide.
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shame on an IGA posted:I work in a bearing factory and this is unbelievably triggering
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Yeah, I've never heard the horse thing, I've always heard the story about it being invented expressly for genocide. Oh crap, am I misremembering? Gonna have to try and remember which video I'm thinking of from all the ones I've watched recently. I may be some time.
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Wasn't it this thread who talked about the guy who went to the gun range with a desert eagle and the recoil broke some of his teeth? I imagine big heavy guns are harder to shoot. I would venture into the gun subforum but I'm a chicken.
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queserasera posted:I would venture into the gun subforum but I'm a chicken. Come on over. Its super chill and welcoming.
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Sunswipe posted:Oh crap, am I misremembering? Gonna have to try and remember which video I'm thinking of from all the ones I've watched recently. I may be some time. Yeah, it was straight up conceived for the express purpose of killing people in south east Asia because colonialism. Also the testing done for it was basically shooting live cows a bunch.
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Aug 15, 2020 19:02
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Splicer posted:What's the most bearings you've ever seen spilled? Was the noise transcendent or merely glorious? It's more like, someone dropped a 2003 μm OD needle into a bin of 2000-2002 μm needles and now we need to re-sort or scrap 12,000,000 needles Or even worse, a soft 2001 needle into a bin of heat-treated 2000-2002
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Aug 15, 2020 19:12
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queserasera posted:I would venture into the gun subforum but I'm a chicken. It's the only gun forum I've ever seen that welcomes leftists and LGBTQ, calls out racist/authoritarian poo poo, and isn't seeping in toxic masculinity. It's pretty good.
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Sunswipe posted:Oh crap, am I misremembering? Gonna have to try and remember which video I'm thinking of from all the ones I've watched recently. I may be some time. That may well be a story about a different caliber, or just a more obscure variant/mutation of the .45 ACP story. It definitely sounds like the kind of urban legend people would develop about a high powered cartridge.
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PinheadSlim posted:It's the only gun forum I've ever seen that welcomes leftists and LGBTQ, calls out racist/authoritarian poo poo, and isn't seeping in toxic masculinity. It's pretty good. When did this happen? It used to be absolutely dire in there.
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Don't worry, nothing bad happens. https://twitter.com/BinAnimals/status/1294340211703513089
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Aug 15, 2020 19:43
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https://twitter.com/dietinghippo/status/1294360897335390209?s=20
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iwentdoodie posted:Yeah, it was straight up conceived for the express purpose of killing people in south east Asia because colonialism. Wingnut Ninja posted:That may well be a story about a different caliber, or just a more obscure variant/mutation of the .45 ACP story. It definitely sounds like the kind of urban legend people would develop about a high powered cartridge.
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gschmidl posted:Don't worry, nothing bad happens. Yeah you just posted a video of someone killing their pet. You worthless gently caress.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Yeah you just posted a video of someone killing their pet. Did you watch the same video as me  Cat was rolling around with a snake, saw it and got startled. Nowhere did I see lil kitty get bitten by the snake, or die.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Yeah you just posted a video of someone killing their pet. I uh... what?
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Aug 15, 2020 22:11
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That cat died from snake fright a mere 12 years later.
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Aug 15, 2020 22:12
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Poor cat, thought of a snake and died
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OCD INTENSIFIES xtal posted:Poor cat, thought of a snake and died at least it wasn't a cucumber
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xtal posted:Poor cat, thought of a snake and died
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dog nougat posted:Did you watch the same video as me When the cat gets off the chair the snake is latched on. The car got bit by a venomous snake.
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Aug 15, 2020 22:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHty4wgiuI here's an uncropped version where you can see that's not the case
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Manager Hoyden posted:When the cat gets off the chair the snake is latched on. The car got bit by a venomous snake. I never knew snakes had fangs in their tails
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mrking posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHty4wgiuI here's an uncropped version where you can see that's not the case Well I am very happy to be wrong, thanks for posting that video.
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Manager Hoyden posted:When the cat gets off the chair the snake is latched on. The car got bit by a venomous snake. Its a super young python it looks like, I doubt it could even really bite the cat effectively at that age and they have no venom.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Well I am very happy to be wrong, thanks for posting that video. perhaps you should try turning on your monitor next time you watch a video
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don't worry everyone, i bit the snake to give it a taste of its own medicine (i drank its venom first).
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Manager Hoyden posted:When the cat gets off the chair the snake is latched on. The car got bit by a venomous snake. Is car OK?
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