Re: Shocky failure of the Browning "BAR" rifle in Newfoundland

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:42:53 +0000 (UTC), Tiger
<Lana_sands@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

#browninghighpower9@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
## A colleague of mine took a Browning BAR sporting rifle to Newfoundland
## to hunt Moose. When he was hunting he got just a few and I mean just
## a few pine needles lodged down in the trigger mechanism of the gun.
## It put the gun out of action entirely as the gun now refused to fire.
## Meanwhile a nice big trophy moose was standing there just looking at
## him. Now since he had just spent big bucks on this hunt he was so
## enraged he wanted to smash this poorly designed Browning rifle against
## the nearest tree or over the biggest rock he could find.

This is one of the most powerful advertisements I have ever read for
totally banning guns. An idiot goes out in the woods, fills his
rifle's action full of pine needles and it won't work. Pray that the
anti-gunner don't get hold of this story.

Now let me tell my story. My grandfather was born in 1882, my father
in 1910 and myself in 1932. We all hunted the woods of New Hampshire,
my grandfather and father all their lives and myself until I went off
and joined the service. None of us, ever, jammed a gun full of pine
needles. Not once in about 100 man years of hunting and I can't even
begin to think of how one would even start to do it. How did your mate
accomplish this amazing screw up?

## The guide came to the rescue and lent him his ancient 6.5 Dutch
## Mannlicher rifle made in the very early 1900's. You know the pip
## squeak caliber that the big bore boys love to bad mouth. The 160
## grain bullet traveling at a mere 2,200 feet per second went right
## through the moose and the moose simply toppled over. The Mannlicher
## rifle, which by the way was also full of pine needles and soaking wet
## with rain. The Mannlicher worked just fine.

You just said that this is a big bucks, high end hunting trip and the
guide is dragging around an old war surplus WW-1 Dutch rifle? If all
he has is this kind of crappy old junk how does he charge those high
rates?

##
## By the way gun writer Brian Towsely recently said an even more
## powerful caliber i.e. the .270 Winchester was just barely adequate for
## small white tail deer. I wonder what he would have said about the
## smaller 6.5 Mannlicher cartridge. Perhaps he would have said it was
## only adequate for field mice shooting.

Referring back to my family history, above, the most powerful rifle
used by myself or my ancestors for the past hundred years was a 300
Savage, or a 30-30, not sure which has the most impressive ballistics.
My Grand Dad used a 38-55 and a box of ammo would last him about ten
years.

## Last month in one of the gun rags, I believe it was "The Rifle"
## another article by a gunsmith told of a Remington 700 that failed
## because it got water into the bolt which froze up with rust not only
## the button ejector but also caused a failure to the extractor as well.

I've seen 50 cal. browning machine guns do the same thing. So water
freezes and causes iron to rust. This is not exactly something new.

I really can't see the point to your story.

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(Note:remove underscores
from address for reply)


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