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To quote one of my favorite all time ever actors in the legendary Eastwood, as he played the gunnery sergeant in Heartbreak ridge...."The AK 47 makes a distinctive sound when fired, so remember it.", lol.... Also, you can crawl through dirt an water, the most nasty stuff on earth and it never get clogged or jam up. Cheap, easy to produce, reliable, all maybe reasons it is the most commonly used and dependable assault rifle on the planet, minus being plated in 24K.... Bandai, the Asian toy company who is famous for their Chogokin (Translates to die-cast robot), produced this highly collectible and now sought after vintage lighters, which transform into robots. Later, Bandai re-released this Lightan piece in 18K, via GX-32. Bandai began with GX-01 on their re-release series and they are up to 61, and again GX-32 is the only one of the line plated in 18K gold, neat collectible.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/33064405465....m1438.l2649Edited by Silverhawk74
02/13/2012 11:33 am
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That looks like something from Saddam Hussein's play room.  |
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just imagine if the AK was solid gold, pretty decent gold weight that would be, esp with full GOLDEN jacket rounds, lol. Platinum tipped perhaps, lol....
Wonder as soft as gold is, if it is even physically feasible to propel a golden slug. I imagine if it were, it would do so serious damage, and breaking up into fragments an what not. Like the massive caliber musket balls they used in the civil war. If one took a solid bone hit from one today, you still would have a large percentage chance of loosing that limb, baring one master surgeon with some serious Humpty Dumpty skills. Which I have seen some mind blowing surgical work, like full foot re-construction after a bad wreck an what not....
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You're right about that, Hawk. Gold is VERY soft, so any firearm made from it would have to have pretty thick walls and be operated at very low velocity to avoid the high chamber pressures and temperatures that occur when a normal modern cartridge is fired. I once had a .45 case eject over my shoulder while target shooting and drop down the back of my shirt at the neck. My son was shooting with me that day and could not understand at first why Dad was jumping around like that. It was a bit like having a hornet inside my shirt... a "gift" that just kept on giving... pain!  |
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It's obviously plated....
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It looks like a gun that Goldfinger would have and 007 would want!
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It looks like a gun that Goldfinger would have and 007 would want! Indeed it does. While gold would not make a decent gun, it would make some great bullets... spendy but great.  |
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Yes plated for sure, no doubt. No way solid gold could handle that intense heat, and gas pressure.....
Plus, it would be about impractical as anything ever invented. Think about the cost, of just one solid gold slug, esp if it was tipped in platinum....
It would be about as the cost of turn led into gold, via the money spent to run the machine that does it at Berkley for like 24 hour process or whatever it is, resulting in a cost of 1000's to produce one gram of gold worth about 60 bucks or so....
I will say Hitler an Germany spent way to much time an money on crazy research, such as a carrier made totally of ice, not to mention many crazy flying machine contraptions an what not. I know this is a subject way of course of another time an place, but if they had NOT opened up a war on two fronts, and poured that money into their more productive an practical weapons an vehicles, it could have been a real different outcome. He had a genius under is control in Von Braun, and never fully appreciated his genius or put it to work for him an the army, minus the V-2 rockets which were really a waste of time for his purposes.....
Of course, that most key rocketry knowledge gained, was key to putting us into space later....
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02/15/2012 6:02 pm
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Heh heh... my Dad worked with von Braun down in Huntsville, AL, at the Redstone Arsenal missile test facility in the mid-late 1950s. He told me once that von Braun was one of those head-in-the-clouds professor types who was very bright but who also tended to overlook the obvious. Perhaps that was why the good doktor had so many technicians around him. |
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Posted 02/13/2012 8:20 pm
