The other day when nerding out whilst replying to the Darwin thread
Fuckwits
I remembered that I had something tucked away in the garage. A leftover from the days when I used to have a half share in a WW2 jeep
It’s a .50 cal BMG round. Obviously it’s inert.
So rather than have it sat in a box I decided to do something with it. Here’s what I did with 3 tools: a vice, a junior hacksaw and a file.
First I used the vice and junior hacksaw, and this is what I ended up with
Then the file
Can you tell what it is yet?
A very quick polish
Moment of truth, will it work?
Yay! Success! it’s beer o’clock!
I know, my life is very dull.
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Was hoping it was going to be a flute.
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You could always increase it’s versatility and go looking for dental problems
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Thought is was gonna be an amphibious landing craft then a dog whistle but alcohol related makes far more sense.
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which half of the jeep did you own? top or bottom, front or back…
The half that always seemed to need money spending on it…
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A butt plug that opens a bottle, novel.
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Is that the kind of bullet they thought a book would stop??
Looks like something you’d use to bring down a rhino
No point in it being a single purpose item Bob.
No, that was a .50 cal AE (Action Express), this is a .50 cal BMG (Browning Machine Gun) if you click the link in the OP you can see the difference.
The BMG has a lethal range of over 2 miles, as proved by a Canadian sniper recently
Canadian sniper ‘kills IS militant two miles away’ - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40372403
The AE is still a powerful round, and will penetrate upto a foot of solid wood, so an encyclopaedia would be no problem to it. A BMG would probably do a whole set of Britannica.
Thought it was going to be a crack pipe.
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That’s one way to check if it’s inert!
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