NRA Election Day 2004 Raffle Grand Prize: Heston's "cold dead hands" rifle

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

https://www.nrahq.org/cdh/Default.asp



YES! I want to join the NRA and enter to win the Charlton Heston Commemorative Rifle!
YES! I want to renew my NRA membership and enter to win!
YES! I want to donate to the NRA and enter to win!
No, I can't join NRA and help save my freedoms, but please enter me in the sweepstakes.
Yes, I am 18 years of age or older.

Grand Prize: Winchester®Model 1866 serial #36352, handcrafted in 1870. Valued at over $25,000, it's one of the finest firearms ever made.
(Total ARV: $25,000)

First Prize: (2) Charlton Heston Commemorative Peacemakers Includes Six Sterling Silver Cartridges and Handmade Presentation Case.
(Total ARV: $9,995.00 each.)

Second Prize:
NRA Tribute M1 Garand® Rifle www.americaremembers.com
(Total ARV: $2895.00)

Third Prize:
NRA Tribute Lever Actionwww.americaremembers.com
(Total ARV: $2195.00)

[King of New Orleans]

1. Oh, at first I thought

I was for Heston's cold dead hands.

Actually, it's a pretty clever idea for a raffle, not clever enough to get me to join, but clever.

[MrBenchley]

8. Yes, something for the winner's own cold dead hands to fondle

What gun nuts need are not more guns but mittens...

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. wouldent mind winning the

M1 Garand

[TheMightyFavog]

7. Back before my nervous breakdown in 2000.

Back when I could trust myself with a gun and I was an avid hunter, a WWII era 30.06 M1 Garand was my dream deer rifle.

I was using a Ruger .44 Magnum Carbine, couldn't be beat at close range, but at over 100m, it was practically useless. (Not to mention I couldn't buy ammo for it because I was under 21 because it was classified as "handgun ammunition".) I envied my dad's bolt-action .270, at least he had a chance at those long shots.

[Lefty48197]

3. Does the winner have to pry the rifle from his cold dead hands?

Or can they take it while they're still warm?

[Jack_DeLeon]

4. They better let me....

pry them from his cold dead hands otherwise I'm suing for false advertising.

[Name removed]

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5. Damn!

I knew pre-bans were/are commanding a premium price, but $25,000.00?!?!
(no mention of how many hi-cap mags come with it).

I think I'll pass on this one for now.

[Baclava]

6. Fuck the NRA

They are sellouts.

I'd rather have one of these anyway...



From http://www.jpfo.org/

[Wickerman]

10. Is that side fed or is it just happy to see me?

It looks like it feeds from the top - which would make sighting impossible. I'm sure it must feed from the side and the pic creates an optical illusion for me. ?

[Zynx]

11. Nope, that is a top feed.

It's a squad cover automatic weapon. You don't need an overly clear picture of the target. I don't remember how much is obscured off hand, but the magazine does most certainly interfere with the LOS.

[Wickerman]

12. odd

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

so, with this model we would discourage folks from actually aiming? Seems to fly in the face of the squeeze and spray ideas often debunked here on J/PS. I always thought, from what I learned here, that full auto was a waste - aim at a pack and hit nothing. Yet here we have something with its own charming name belying the idea that you would never actually use full auto except when doing some high octane plinking. Squad Cover Automatic indeed.

[Baclava]

13. This gun is a semi-auto...

Bren MK-2SA Semiautomatic Rifle
One of a kind—Collectors edition

Asking Price
$3,995.00

(a modern, semiautomatic version of the famous Bren machine gun)

The rifle, complete with two barrels and pre-ban 20-round magazines.
Two $600 certificates good for classes at the Front Sight Training Institute in Las Vegas.

Specifications

Bren MK-2SA
Custom-made by Historic Arms, LLC of Franklin, Georgia
46.25-inches long
Weight: 24-pounds empty
Caliber: .303 British
20-round box magazines (pre-ban)
Gas semi-auto operation
Finish: Mil-spec phenolic resin, black teflon
Presentation-grade wood stock
Caliber-conversion barrel to 7.62 x 54R (Brass-cased ammo only)

[Wickerman]

15. Ok, so in essence its a repro

tailored to me meet today's market contraints. Was the Bern Machine Gun full auto? How do you aim in semi-auto with a rooster plume of a magazine blocking the sight? As always, I find the technical information fascinating.

[FeebMaster]

16. "Was the Bren machine gun full-auto?"

Did you vote in my poll in GD? ;)


All machine guns are full-auto.

[Wickerman]

18. thanks for making my point

and no, I did not vote in your poll - that I recall. Never venture out of the Gungeon unless I have to. Them folks upstairs are crazy.

[FeebMaster]

14. Or, you know,

maybe the sights are offset so the magazine isn't in the way.

[Wickerman]

17. Maybe

anyone actually know?

[FeebMaster]

19. Maybe I shouldn't have said maybe.

I finally found some pictures.




There's a bunch more:

http://www.quarterbore.com/weapons/bren_mk1.htm

[Wickerman]

20. thanks

sorry for jumping on the maybe, but there has been conflicting info in this series of posts.

[FeebMaster]

21. I blame people who play

airsoft and video games. You go searching for gun stuff and come up with lots of crap about Counterstrike and Airsoft guns. It's very annoying.

[Endangered Specie]

22. Something to mauserbate over...

kinda like a blow-up doll?