More chicks and guns
Sarah Palin to receive an AR-15:
NRA members, keep an eye out for your copy of American Rifleman, if it hasn’t already arrived. According to the latest edition of the magazine, Bob Reynolds, owner of Templar Consulting LLC, will make a special presentation at the NRA Foundation Banquet on May 14.
It’s a modified AR-15 (civilian version of the milspec M16 rifle), specially customized in honor of Gov. Sarah Palin. Chambered for .50 Beowulf instead of the standard 5.56mm cartridge, this special AR features several custom engravings.
I guess you need a .50 to hunt moose.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:33 am
The day I can say “My President kills moose with an AR-15” will be a great day indeed.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am
Good to know at least one person is able to get an AR these days…
April 21st, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I guess you need a .50 to hunt moose.
No. Bear.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I guess you need a .50 to hunt moose.
No. Bear.
Or really anytime there might be a chance of having a twig or two between your target and the muzzle of your rifle.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Too bad she’s not stalking congress (Note to BATFU: I kid.)
April 21st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Their varments grow a touch bigger up there.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I’m disillusioned she doesn’t already have one!
I had the privilege of trying out a .50 Beowulf when they were pretty new. Kicks like an ’03 Spfld, and may not be as non-penetrating as USCG specified, since at 200 yards it went through both ends of a half-inch mild steel target drum, and set the compacted clay fill inside on fire. That was a wildcat round, though.
It is potent; certainly more than a .50 pistol round, but don’t mistake it for a Barrett. I wouldn’t want to be the first to take it on a bear hunt, but wouldn’t mind having one for ursine “eventualities.”
April 21st, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Do you need a reason to have an AR-15 in .50 Beowulf? Are you guys so wussified and PC that you now must have a sporting reason to actually justify the existence of the gun?
It’s just cool! Almost as cool as the .50-95 1876 Winchester.
Quit trying to justify it, just enjoy it’s large caliber goodness.
April 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
“Do you need a reason to have an AR-15 in .50 Beowulf?”
You only need one reason – it’s portable awesome. Any others are superfluous.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Thanks for the link!
– JP
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 am
You can also get a Mini-30 customized to shoot .50 Beowulf. It’ll set you back almost 2 large.
There is some Law Enforcement interest in this cartridge, since it still has wallop when loaded subsonic, and it can then be VERY suppressed.
Hundreds of grains of leaden misery coming at you just below the Mach could ruin your day, and if you want to cut down the wall the perp is hiding behind, you load some steamier ones.
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 am
I think this would make a damn fine bear cartridge, and if you’ve ever fired a .50 Alaskan or one of the other wildcats they do for Marlin lever actions, you would know they DO NOT kick like a .30-06, so that would be a definite improvement.
Still, I think we should hold off on giving her customized and engraved rifles until she’s inaugurated. She’ll be POTUS No. 45, so let’s give her an engraved .45!
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Just got my copy a couple days ago. The firearm is all white too—looks really nice on top of everything else.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I’m so jealous
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Haven’t got my copy yet. I wonder if my liberal post office threw it away or gave it to DHS.