all right we're out here with Dave Davis we're going to talk about one of my
personal favorites that the Barrett 50 Cal I love this gun I got a lot of time
behind it overseas I'm here to tell you this thing is it's a work of art Dave,
tell us about this break it down for me.
First of all if you don't have the
market cornered there I love this gun I fired the first one of these guns
Mr. Ronnie Barrett standing over my shoulder getting ready for Desert Storm and I've
shot it many many times in many different locations since then love this
gun you know fighting in the Middle East our vehicles our platforms we can't
venture too far from them but you can take this gun run to the roof of a house
and now you have basically anti-vehicle and light skinned armored capability at
your fingertips love this gun a 50 Cal the ammo is all over the
battlefield NATO standard as well as ours you can always get it love this gun
man portable we just spoke jumpable collapse this thing down two pins drop
it in a modified nicely come out of the bird get my lower that sucker drop on
the ground put it back together two pins drop the magazines and you're
an operation I've actually seen guys patrol and carry this thing the whole
package deal loads under 40 pounds that's comparable to a machine gun but
look at the capability gives you
Definitely
Excellent weapon system
50 Cal multitude of ammo is everything from tracer to incinerator
to armor-piercing and this is a game-changer on a battlefield
my personal favorite the raffis still listed as API single single made comes
individually stocked in the can it's easily the most accurate 50 Cal ammo
I've ever run through it pet an explosive in it does wonders on a little
better when pickup truck.
Speaking of the Rothfuss rounds what other
shoulder-fired weapons going to give you this range? Your AT fours your laws
your Carl Gustaf
Definitely not
your old 90s? The 57s? The old old 106s you can take this thing
carry it into battle Bedouin vehicles a mile away you can have them for lunch
Now not just Bedouin vehicles but how about if we wanted to go
not necessarily hard targets but expensive targets?
How about a helicopters?
How about sitting aircraft on the tarmac? How about sitting a mile away with this
in a position perceived outside the security perimeter of an airbase
somewhere overseas and how the vehicles Karl: Outside the mine field Dave: through the outside the
minefields and I have those little aircraft whether it be fixed or jet and
put me a couple rounds of that Rothfuss round in each one that's not only
very devastating but very cost effective very cost effective
It's what it's designed for yes anti-materiel rifle but I'll tell you what when it comes to
pounding away at targets two kilometers away you're just not going to find a
better weapon it's over in the Horn of Africa and we had a seal platoon
attached to us they had their McMillan single-shot 50 cals and they had some
match grade ammo and they would pull their bolt out hook it on the face put
it in and yes they were shooting a much more accurate weapon however we put the
target out there and with this ten round magazine I'm able to thump Rothfuss
rounds as fast as I can pull the trigger and by the end of our little
demonstration our little competition they were nodding their head saying
you're right we got to get us some Barrett's
Dave: Same horn Africa you got
aircraft flying around at that time you have the choice of your door guns or
rockets what do you got in between when you have that little Toyota truck down
there with a 14.5 88 against it in the back so it physically mount these on the
aircraft with straps and we would effectively engage those vehicles that's
Dave: that which what we had available to us Karl: now you've got time behind this in
Somali Dave: absolutely Karl: just that I'm not going to bust them out and tell them the
story about the shell casing coming out of your gun and going up into the rotor
Karl: blades I'm not going to do that Dave: well it wasn't rotor blades it was a front windshield and there's
a Canadian aircraft but anyway we we up the sales of Toyota vehicles at the
dealership they're in Somalia for a while because this was very devastating
on the very technical vehicles guys love this weapon systems what you can do it
Dave: day we can do at night there you go Karl: the first uns is that came out the first
generation they would not take the 50 Cal recoil it would tear them up but
these new generations of them they can handle recoil of 50 Cal just fine
Dave: the newer generations as part of the prerequisites for them to be able to
capability to handle that recoil Karl: now back I'm showing my age to again back in
the Horn of Africa we didn't have decent night vision to run before that so I ran
a thermal sight the old past 13 that was made for the MA deuce and well it didn't
look too pretty at night crystal clear and with Rothfuss rounds you're actually
seeing the little explosions in on thermal it's a beautiful thing you find
mammals line up the crosshairs on it and it's to me it's just the most beautiful
thing in the world Rothfuss rounds going off inside of even if it's a four-legged goat it's still a beautiful thing
I'm gonna tell you right now on the today's
battlefield there's nothing more resourceful than a u.s. GI
how about no night vision capability with a spotter behind you and shooting nothing
but tracers out of this gun and then walking them onto your target absolutely you do
what you got to do you do what you got to do in tracers also baby such a little
fire downrange Karl: that they will that they will Dave: absolutely Karl: all right now Dave this scopes not as
sexy as a lot of the new scopes like you're running on a PSR they got the
tremor too and as far as dialing in data on this I heard you came up with a
really really sexy new way to do it with the reticle and I want you to break it
down for us because this is freaking ingenius Dave: well let's first talk about
what you just talked about this is a four and a half by 14 mil dot scope
second focal plane therefore the reticle stays the same size and the target Rises
and shrinks as you go through the power so they're not correspondent in size and
all power and it has a quarter inch click we're talking a 50 Cal gun it's
going to go out there past a mile plus with quarter clicks come on the reason
Karl: Spin that thing all day long Dave: the reason is then you're going to run out of Traverse the reason is this would come with a little ballistic computer put out by
barrett that manufacture your gun the BORS Barrett Optical Ranging System but the
army and their infinite wisdom purchased the guns without it so I was forced to
kind of come up with a concept so what we did was I let you keep that one for
your personal records what I come up with is old-school battle sight zero
Karl: okay Dave: looking at the mil dot reticle a total of 10 mils in there plus with a
build a little dolly capability and Battlefield zeros and
same guns same scope same mounting system is all gun so it works across so
I zero the gun and then I come up with amount of clicks and everything it tooks
to battle fight to zero so I can walk up any one of these standard-issue guns
with the standard scope and everything bottom it all the way out go up exactly
three and a half revolutions go to my windage go all the way to my left come
back exactly three revolutions easy to remember three and a half by three and
that gives me my top mil dot in exactly a 500 meter zero then I use the
remaining nine mil dots is hold off and the unique thing about the ammo in our
inventory from the Rothfuss to the standard m33 ball they're all within 15
grains of each other and very very similar to Karl: trajectory is the same Dave: they're almost
exactly with exception only exception is is the black tip 750 round and extremely
rare to get and you got to be on the other side of fence to see that
definitely but now I'm able to take this gun
walk up do my battle sight zero have a gun it's effective out to 1250 meters
Karl: now Dave we know we want to shoot this thing way past 1200 meters Dave: I had a
feeling you're going to say that what if I took this indexed additional
revolutions and able to get me some additional data Karl: ahh I like how you think Dave: and I go up
two revolutions that's a total of thirty minutes but it lands on my zero again so
I added two minutes so when I crank that up two revolutions plus two minutes it's
32 minutes I see two index and two to me tells the operator you're on your second
revolution and now I can go out to a mile away Karl: all right now you just
listening to him talk real fast for the last 90 seconds about how to do that
sounds complicated trust me from the guy who's had his brain rattled around from
this muzzle break for hundreds and hundreds of rounds that's very very easy
to do and now you're able to reach all the way out to 1500 meters that's insane
that we can do this as simple as Dave's little cheat sheet that he dialed up and
what you put on a gun that's crazy now you just make this up for us to use here
or have other people actually checked it and said this really works and if they
adopted it Dave: how does it work number of years ago got a phone call
presented with this problem which facilitated me to go find us a curious
area in a secure phone to talk to these individuals that were over the pond and
they presented a series of problems to me i sat down with every ballistic
program I had available to me taking a good hard look at the system come up
with several different tried and trued ways and going out on a range and
physically doing it this is what we come out with it was so simplistic it was
easy and it was very effective and this has been used overseas many many times
and been adopted by several DoD entities as putting after their students as well
Karl: good enough for these schools good enough for these units that are
competing because there are units competing using this system this ain't
Billy Bob making this stuff up to just use in his backyard this is sound sound
guidance sound techniques that you can use to reach out there with your Barrett
Dave what else what are we missing on this thing Dave: get one you got to have one
Karl:definitely Dave: this is an overlooked weapon system you can take this thing out under 40 pounds
you can run up to the roof and you got anti-vehicle capability at your
population can pull choke point your checkpoints you can this is a good good
good system night vision capability long range capability ammo and inventory
10-round magazines this is a very very valuable weapon system on a current
battlefield Karl: all right now you got the bottomless checkbook you can go out buy
these things all day long you're not gonna hit nothing with them what it
takes is the knowledge knowing all this learning from subject matter experts
like Dave knowledge is power knowledge is that tool that's going to push you
above all the rest of your peers knowledge is the best weapon Dave thanks man
I'm here for you here for you