Submitted 1 day ago by Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/41872288
If watching Ukraine war footage has taught me anything, it’s:
This meme (motivational poster?) has to be circa 2003 - 2009. Looks like Marine recruits with M-16 A2s. The newer tan canteen pouch with the old green 782 alice gear belt and harness is a weird combination.
I think the used picture is even older than the meme itself, my guess would be that it is from roughly the Gulf War era.
Yeah this picture is confusing. I went to boot in '09. We wore deuce gear, but it was green. I can’t tell if there are picatinny rails on the rifles or not.
I made another comment but my guess is the image in the meme is roughly Gulf War era… I’ve not been in the military but I don’t think ACOGs became a thing that was basically standard issue untill… well even before you went to boot in 09.
I’m thinking this picture was taken some time in the 90s, probably, is what I’m trying to say.
anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice
I’m just imagining a hunter double tapping a dead duck point blank with scatter shot
TBF it does say ‘rules for a gunfight’ and not ‘rules for a duck hunt’. If the duck is part of an armed offensive, and possibly wearing body armor, I think a double tap is appropriate.
Brings it home and put its in his home made duck flinging rig and skeet shoots it.
That .4+ is bugging me for some reason Just say .40 cal or larger.
As a psych nurse my rules for a gunfight are that the ER security checkpoint with the metal detector and x-ray bad scanner better have found and removed the gun by the time the patient arrives on my unit. One day they didn’t and I was VERY put out. Absolutely miffed. I wrote a very stern email in the morning.
I think you should have taken the gun and shot security.
That would’ve taught them.
Sounds like you didn’t follow the first rule of a gunfight
Caliber of every gun in the picture starts with a “.2”
But they aren’t hand guns?
Well it doesn’t start with “.4” so i guess their rule still stands for that.
Always bring a bomb to a gunfight
Two bombs. They have to be larger than .2 inches though.
Ah bugger, I brought my knife!
Sorry guys.
I know there’s a necromancer who favours a 0.577 revolver for the finality of the effect
And I know a mutant half human half angel thing who prefers .45 Long Colt…
… but also prefers to never use it to kill.
well you have me at a disadvantage as I can’t say I’ve ever met necromancer but he caries some little infamy
Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The caliber one seems silly. A 9mm is .35 inches but has about the same power of a .45 but a .357 is more powerful than both
archonet@lemy.lol 1 day ago
it’s just the usual “hurr durr anything smaller than .45 is for girls” bullshit. Usually espoused by the sort of ancient old farts who remember carrying one in WWII, Korea or Vietnam and who dislike the general shift to smaller bullets going faster because they don’t understand terminal ballistics.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Yeah, this rule really irked me.
This is… its an older meme, motivational poster format, wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was made by a gung ho Gulf War vet either before or not long after Iraq 2 Electric Boogaloo commenced, drenched in Americana gun culture pride.
There are plently of pistol rounds other than .45 ACP that are quite good in combat scenarios, most at this point would probably agree that having more 9mm over less .45 is preferable, otherwise 2011s wouldn’t even be a thing.
Also: its less common, but uh… 5.7?
5.7 is actually more likely to pen body armor, than a 9mm or a .45, if your scenario is you’re fighting against other people with body armor.
And you can make a double stack magazine with it.
And there are a fair number of Police, Intelligence, Military organizations that use the FiveSeven regularly.
And… there are now even a growing number of hunters who will tell you that some kind of pistol in 5.7 is their backup, in case of something big ambushing them.
357 is of course very powerful, but they’re also huge rounds in comparison to .45 or 9m… kinda hard to fit into a semi-auto pistol.
Unless you wanna talk about the .357 SIG.
… but we don’t talk about the .357 SIG …
Glifted@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh man, caliber debates. This shit is way more complicated than just X is more powerful than Y
Donkter@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Nah the sig has way more feats if you read the lore. Honestly I think the power scaling is all over the place. Magnums are on fraud watch tbh haven’t done shit for feats in years.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And a .308 would smoke them all. It was specifying if you see smaller caliber, assume rifle.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s not at all what it’s specifying.
It’s pro-45ACP / anti-9mm boomer gun shit.