General GunTuber thread

[ForTheHoard]

Pretty much. If the toobs were easier to make and manage we wouldn't have retards filling in holes to "repair" their all-matching launchers.

This situation in a nutshell.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Don't RPG warheads have a distance arming lockout? Not exactly sure how that works though.

Western designed rocket launchers, recoiless rifles and missile launchers are the ones with the distance arming lockouts on their warheads.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

Western designed rocket launchers, recoiless rifles and missile launchers are the ones with the distance arming lockouts on their warheads.

Don't RPG warheads have a distance arming lockout? Not exactly sure how that works though.

Soviet RPG-7 warheads have a 5 meter arming distance. While this is much lower than most western systems, it is not 0 as some have claimed.

Source

 

[Corn Flakes]

Soviet RPG-7 warheads have a 5 meter arming distance. While this is much lower than most western systems, it is not 0 as some have claimed.

Source

Every claim I see talking about a 5-meter arming distance for the RPG-7 has that as a source. I don't question the source, but I do wonder what, exactly, the Russians told their conscripts when training them in the use of the RPG-7 back in the 60s.

If they wanted to make sure their young idiots going through mandatory military service didn't go around unscrewing the cap and risking damaging the trigger mechanism by bumping it into things, informally telling them any little bump would set off the warhead would make sense. Starting out as pissed off serzhants bullshitting their conscripts to get them to behave, it would then get passed on as "common knowledge".

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

Thanks to these idiots, I’ve learned more about the RPG-7 and RPG-7 reactivation than I thought there was to know. That being said, very sad and I hope the guy heals up well enough to do it again if he elects. I’d wager that the helmet probably helped save his life

 

[Blasterisk]

Soviet RPG-7 warheads have a 5 meter arming distance. While this is much lower than most western systems, it is not 0 as some have claimed.

Source

(emphasis on the left panel!)

With such a lack of backblast awareness I'm almost surprised these guys didn't try to rocket jump.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Everyone talking about arming distances and warheads should keep in mind that they were not firing real warheads. they were shooting 3D printed rockets.
While it is possible to buy a functional RPG-7 in the US (Airtronic PSRL have been available for civilian sale on occasion) it is impossible to buy live warheads. No one will sell you one despite it being legal.

 

[HumptiDouji]

The moment you remove that plastic cap Mr. Warhead is no longer your friend.

I am to understand that this is specific to the variants produced in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, as he thought it would be a good idea to cut some corners on fucking explosive devices. I'm 99% certain that the Soviet and Chinese ones are supposed to have a safety pin on their warheads like a hand grenade, and that they do have some limited safety distance to them.

it blows out around the trigger pack

I caught that. Figured they should have fucking felt that, but they kept going.

This situation in a nutshell.

You can do a lot with aluminum.

Here's a funky disposable launcher which the Polacks made, it's a single use aluminum tube and it has a folding stock, so it can be very compact. No backblast, but make absolutely fucking sure that your supporting hand doesn't go past the yellow band.
A bunch of these showed up in Ukraine as military aid some time back, analogous in utility to the M72 LAW and RPG18.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Everyone talking about arming distances and warheads should keep in mind that they were not firing real warheads. they were shooting 3D printed rockets.
While it is possible to buy a functional RPG-7 in the US (Airtronic PSRL have been available for civilian sale on occasion) it is impossible to buy live warheads. No one will sell you one despite it being legal.

That was just a tangent we ended up going into. Personally, I'm just glad they said the guy will be making a full recovery. He might end up with some pretty gnarly scars for his trouble, though.

Unfortunately for him, that incident has a lot less meme potential than Scott's "Put a Thumb In It!" t-shirt extravaganza.

 

[prolapsed_cranium]

I wonder, did the projectile fail and explode in his face or did the blowback into the dummy-head mash him with shrapnel.
Also genuinely wish they'd upload the highspeed footage, not for funnies but because that is probably the only video like that out there and I'm extremely curious since he's okay and will recover. If they charged 2 whole dollars for it, I'd pay

It's a reweld and they using full power loads. I bet they ran it too hot and blew their welds out

Most of those RPG-7s had the demil cut done right above the the trigger group, so the thing went off right in his face.

I get that this is an RPG-2, but you get the point.

Some of the people reactivating these also use duplex powder loadings. usually mixing powder meant for .50BMG with blackpowder. this can also be dangerous. I'd use straight 1/2FG or 1FG black for this if i was inclined. 3FG or god forbid 4FG could be incredibly dangerous on such a large scale.

And that's a dumb fucking thing to do since the PG-2 and PG-7 booster is blackpowder only.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

I caught that. Figured they should have fucking felt that, but they kept going.

oh they felt it alright.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Maybe late and gay, but I never knew how much I needed to see Garand Thumb headshot a fat kid in a school shooting simulator

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Maybe late and gay, but I never knew how much I needed to see Garand Thumb headshot a fat kid in a school shooting simulator

Those simulators are cool as hell. Holland & Holland have one at their shooting ground outside London for hunting training. it has sims for wild boar and African game etc. H&H's is on a actual indoor range so you can shoot your actual guns for that extra realism.

 

[mlanguishi]

Massad put out a good gun rights video. I don't always agree with his legal arguments, but when it comes to things like this or tactics he's up there with the best.

 

[Sean_Igger]

Massad put out a good gun rights video. I don't always agree with his legal arguments, but when it comes to things like this or tactics he's up there with the best.

Which is all well and good. But gungrabbers will never be swayed by any word or explanation. They will always find a goalpost and will always find a place to plant it where it shouldn't be. My suggestion?

Buy more guns, tell your friends to buy more guns, ignore gungrabbers/tell them to fuck off, and smith/3D print to your heart's content.

 

[crab fucker]

Which is all well and good. But gungrabbers will never be swayed by any word or explanation. They will always find a goalpost and will always find a place to plant it where it shouldn't be.

Completely right. Makes me so bitter sometimes though. Like fuck I even thought bumpstocks were stupid but I didn't want them getting banned cause I don't want to give any more of an inch on this shit. I don't want to give them more precedent. And my stupid fucking state had the Parkland shooting which restricted even rifles to anyone under 21. I felt so bad for my nephew when that happened as he'd just turned 18 and was looking at getting his first rifle.

I just can't stand the drones any more. I don't even want to hear them talk or give me more fallacious arguments, I just want them to shut the fuck up and leave me alone.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Which is all well and good. But gungrabbers will never be swayed by any word or explanation. They will always find a goalpost and will always find a place to plant it where it shouldn't be. My suggestion?

Buy more guns, tell your friends to buy more guns, ignore gungrabbers/tell them to fuck off, and smith/3D print to your heart's content.

Correct. Moral victories come at the expense of political and kinetic victories.

 

[Bogliacci]

Mark will LaRUE the day he crossed Hop by raising prices and discontinuing rails

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Soviet RPG-7 warheads have a 5 meter arming distance. While this is much lower than most western systems, it is not 0 as some have claimed.

If RPG warheads have a functional arming mechanism, why do they come with a safety cap? Dudes strap 40mm HEDP to their chests knowing it's probably not gonna blow up on them. Everyone that isn't a suicidal muslim carries RPG warheads with the caps on.

 

[ForTheHoard]

If RPG warheads have a functional arming mechanism, why do they come with a safety cap? Dudes strap 40mm HEDP to their chests knowing it's probably not gonna blow up on them. Everyone that isn't a suicidal muslim carries RPG warheads with the caps on.

A lot of explosives have more than 1 safety device on them. If I recall correctly, the AT-4 had 2 just on the launcher. Hand grenades have 2. Etc.