In article , Capt. Mooron
wrote:

"Peter Wiley" wrote in message

There's nothing anyone on a small boat can do against a 50 cal (or
| even a 30 cal) machine gun.

That just denotes a lack of imagination, cunning and strategy.... there is
a win situation.
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| As I said my strategy is to be somewhere else.

Good but not always available....


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| PDW
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| If the bad guys have heavy automatic weapons, there's little point in
| firing a rifle at them.

Depends entirely on the rifle and the aim........ Long Distance - Reach
Out and Touch Someone!

Unless they have a splinter shield.

Heavy Autos are intrinsically weak at long ranges.... no matter how much
lead they can deliver in a minute. I'd pick them off at 500 meters with a
338 Win Mag .... never mind a .50 cal Barnett Semi Auto at 2000 meters.

Doubt it. A 30 BMG is remarkably accurate and that design dates back to
(IIRC) 1917. The 50 BMG is not a lot worse tho I've never had the
pleasure of playing with one. You're not on a range now; I've shot over
a spotlight from the back of a utility 4WD for many years and it's damn
hard to hit things when they're moving one way, you're moving another
and you have one shot at a time. You can't spot the fall of shot easily
at sea esp through a scope. Long odds if you didn't get a first shot
hit, the MG guy would walk a burst right arcoss the boat. They have
tracer.

Us Aussies and you Canucks don't have to worry about such stuff, tho.
All we need to do is fly a NZ flag and pirates will know we have
nothing worth stealing. Demeaning, but if you can fake the accent
you're home.

PDW