Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim B.
They come from Israel. We used to get them in exchange for all kinds of stuff we sent over there.
Very heavy. 14" barrel, more than a foot and a half long, front to back.
They didn't have any to show me, in Cabela's gun library in Reno, when I asked to see one.
This was the eight-shot .44 version. Takes eight .44 magnum shells. Not what you would call a subtle weapon. The bullet weighs about twice as much as the .38 in a police revolver. It leaves the barrel going way faster than the speed of sound. It hits the target wih more force than anything this side of a train wreck. Not subtle at all.
Ammunition is a problem. You've got a choice. If you load up with a hard-nose bullet, it goes right through the guy you're shooting, and probably right through some other guy a hundred yards away. So you use a soft-nose bullet and it blows a hole out of your guy about the size of a garbage can.
Your choice.
Good for collectors. This would never be a service piece. No police department would authorize the use of a cannon like this on the job.
Way too heavy.
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Was it in the “Bentley’s walnut glove box”, Jim?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim B.
They come from Israel. We used to get them in exchange for all kinds of stuff we sent over there.
Very heavy. 14" barrel, more than a foot and a half long, front to back.
They didn't have any to show me, in Cabela's gun library in Reno, when I asked to see one.
This was the eight-shot .44 version. Takes eight .44 magnum shells. Not what you would call a subtle weapon. The bullet weighs about twice as much as the .38 in a police revolver. It leaves the barrel going way faster than the speed of sound. It hits the target wih more force than anything this side of a train wreck. Not subtle at all.
Ammunition is a problem. You've got a choice. If you load up with a hard-nose bullet, it goes right through the guy you're shooting, and probably right through some other guy a hundred yards away. So you use a soft-nose bullet and it blows a hole out of your guy about the size of a garbage can.
Your choice.
Good for collectors. This would never be a service piece. No police department would authorize the use of a cannon like this on the job.
Way too heavy.
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The text in red are the exact words and the text in blue are words that have been paraphrased from the original text.
http://books.google.com/books?id=XYFa_bVWGK4C&pg=PA206&dq=They+come+from+Israel.+We+used+to+get+them+in+exchange+for+all+kinds+of+stuff+we+sent+over+there.&hl=en&ei=YfNVTKzBPMP88Aa7iLWqDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=They%20come%20from%20Israel.%20We%20used%20to%20get%20them%20in%20exchange%20for%20all%20kinds%20o f%20stuff%20we%20sent%20over%20there.&f=false
All the colored text is from a novel called the Killing Floor by Lee Child, pages 206 & 207. Obviously there is no attempt to distinguish the unattributed work/thoughts of another from either the paraphrased text of another or any other text that may be original to the OP.
Main Entry: pla•gia•rize
Pronunciation: \ˈplā-jə-ˌrīz also -jē-ə-\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): pla•gia•rized; pla•gia•riz•ing
Etymology: plagiary
Date: 1716
transitive verb : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the sourceintransitive verb : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
— pla•gia•riz•er noun
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarize