Sniper rifle name

[Badgerord]

Hal,

Love the Firefly Ref. I thought I was the only one.

Marty
Badger Ordnance

[Hal O'Peridol]

Firefly was one of the GREAT sci-fi shows. Much better than any of the Star Trek shows. Just the idea of a wild west type society on the outer planets, plus the mixing of chinese language, signage, etc was a stroke of brilliance. Been enjoying it of late on Netflix, If anyone has not seen this show, do yourself a favor and view an episode.

[Ltdave]

absolutely one of the best scenes in a super duper short lived series!!!!

[gunny]

You are correct. "Kate" refers to the round....actually the bullet itself.
Gunny

[Badgerord]

Gunny, can you elaborate? I have been around Snipers, Sniper rifles and Sniping technology for the last 30 years and I have never heard of anything called a Kate.

Marty
Badger Ordnance

[billstewart]

Gunny, can you elaborate? I have been around Snipers, Sniper rifles and Sniping technology for the last 30 years and I have never heard of anything called a Kate.

Marty
Badger Ordnance

This is a TV series, and like the bourbon they use, call Old Edinburgh the Kate is probably also fiction.
The bourbon was the first thing I checked being Scottish and checking the lapua b51 nato round called a Kate led me to this site so thanks guys for clearing this up it's probably tv bs sounded good though.
Billstewart.

[John Sukey]

Never heard of "Old Edingurgh" But there is Gordons Single malt whiskey Yes, I know there is also gin by that name

[dryheat]

[QUOTE=RED;168059]Not at all unbelievable. My Army medic friend has a 7.62 tracer round that his team removed fron a Iraqi terrorist. It had gone thru a concrete block wall and ended up in the Iraqi's spine. Other than the tracer pellet being missing the projectile looks almost pristine (probably a APT)

My 8mm will go through 1" of soft steel(the 30-06 gives it a good try).
Usually the jacket peels off of the inner slug. Concrete isn't steel so I can't say.

[Shooter5]

Naming rifles seems to have passed, a relic of previous generations. Tankers still seem to name their guns or perhaps the tank itself. Although I did name one of my Deuce and a half trucks.
One of my buddies named his M24 "Justice" after 9/11 which I later was assigned. and yet another named his M4 "Jihad." Both carved the names into the buttstocks.

[joem]

Saw a motorized quad .50 set up on the back of a duce and a half named "the meat grinder". it was deployed in front of my bunker for cover after the wire was blown out. Miserable job replacing razor wire at dusk going onto dark thirty.