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[Nailgun Nixon]

Fission Chips.

After a character in a Robert Anton Wilson book.

Edit: My current handle is based on a short lived but rather, erm, eccentric character in a tabletop battletech game.

Edited by Nailgun Nixon, 01 April 2012 - 11:48 PM.

[Kyral]

Cpt. Hades was my first one.
Goblin after that.
Since about 2002 it's Kyral

[Charles Martel]

five by five, on 30 March 2012 - 09:04 AM, said:

Hey Logan,

Well first, the question was, and I could have been more precise in my asking, "Of the many semi-auto rifles chambered in either .308 or 7.62, which rifle do you like for long range?" (FAL, M1A/M14, LR-308 etc...)

That being said, the civilian .308 and the Nato 7.62 are very similar mostly interchangeable but most definitely not the same thing. The NATO round has a much thicker case wall. Also the shoulder of the case is shaped a little different. When a .308 is in a rifle chambered for a 7.62, there is a very small gap in the shoulder that the case has to expand into when fired. So basically, yeah they're interchangeable, though some rifles may run into extraction problems, and if you're using reloaded ammo, you're more likely to have cases split on you if you switch .308 cases between the .308 and 7.62 chambers.

Here's a couple articles
http://www.thegunzone.com/30cal.html
http://www.303british.com/id36.html

Anyhow, you got a favorite.308/7.62? I'm shopping and leaning towards a Springfield M1A.

I opted for the AR-10.

[Blechritter]

my first was Springer(jumper) because i love to use the jump jets
i love still jjmechs but im mwo are to less of this

[Black Dragon EnDrakus]

I think my first callsign for MW was 'Phoenix,' and I've generally used some variation of that or 'Dragon' ever since.

[rollermint]

I change my nick in every other game altho there is one nick that seemed stuck upon me, so much that even my RL friends will call/refer to me by that nick instead of my real name

[Muhanoid]

My first: Mechanoid from game "Mech Minds" (literal translation) or "A.I.M." (official allowed translation).
After too much flood in team voice comm i was renamed to muha-noid (muha is "Fly" the insect).

[Havoc2]

Havoc, but someone else in the lobby had it, so I exited MercPPP, thought for a few seconds, and came back in with }{avoc.

Been that ever since the late '90s. Changed it when some lame *** games (read: MMORPGs) wouldn't allow special characters to Havyek.
MPBT:3025 it was DC_Havoc (no special characters in that game either).

[CyberCrist]

Same callsign now as it was back then. CyberCrist.

[Ice Hawk]

The Very first one I used a lot in piloting games and MW2 was Ice Wolf but then I Played a game from sierra similar to MW and I took on the Call sign Ice Hawk and have used it or mayford5(grandfather's name w/o the 5) ever since.

[Flux Reversal]

If I tell you i'd have to kill you

[The Madcat]

I wanna say... Black Arrow. I was in charge of indirect fire support at the time.

Edited by The Madcat, 02 April 2012 - 06:39 AM.

[guardian wolf]

Alaskan Viking, on 01 April 2012 - 09:20 PM, said:

Hells yes!




You must be shooting some crappy AK hodged together by cheap unskilled labour from used, missmatched, imported parts and a junky US made reciever then. A proper AK-47 pattern rifle is accurate in semi auto mode out to about 300m.

The G-36 is the most overrated rifle in the world. It is just a Stoner AR-18 with plastic thrown on. I don't think it can do anything that an AR can't do.

Barrett M-82 series is nice for throwing rounds (Money?) down range, but for precicion work I would take a McMillan TAC-50.

Honorable mention for pure cool'ness factor: EDM Arms Windrunner 50. Yes the Barrel detaches and the entire rifle fits in that case.

Maybe so, it was just a personal preference. As for the G-36 being the most overrated rifle in the world, it's debatable, but I would not want to derail this thread by doing that. And I wasn't talking about a junky something or other, I was talking about the ones actually produced in Russia, the standard version, which even the Taliban, and AQ have access to. It doesn't have a great accuracy to it's name, though, maybe one of the later improvements improved upon this, if so then forgive my ignorance, as I did not know.

[Morr]

My first one was "Vice". still has a nice ring to it.

[Jonas]

Mine was Cool Hands, A gf at the time gave it to me. We where watching a movie flight of the intruder and the lead pilot was named Jake Grafton, My name is Jacob aka Jake and it just stuck,

[Weapons Man]

I'm seeing a few names here from the old days 2003-2007.

for all the gun guys here i own.

4 FAL rifles
3 AK rifles...soon to add AK74
2 Mausers
3 Mosin-Nagant

and a bunch of assorted other goodies along with reloading a lot of ammo. i have a saying...FAL's are like potato chips...just one won't do.

[Ulric Kell]

I had a few but Ulric Kell was really the first one I began using actively. We had our own Solaris system in Mech Commander 1 and all had clan/house names.

[Wild Cat]

I never really bothered with call-signs and used a short version of my true name or stuck with the default player profile name in what ever game I played. That pretty much all changed when I experienced my first LAN party, what also happened to be Mech Warrior 2.

Not exactly sure if I picked it myself or it was given to me by friends all I know is that I used the Timber Wolf a lot . It was than that I started using the Call-Sign "Wild Cat" and I'm still using it to this day when ever it's available.

[12Strings]

ummmmm
12Strings
yup thats the tag ive used since day one.
Strings if they dont let you use numbers, but 12Strings is who i is.



ps. OMG i have been waiting for this game for such a long long long time....

[The Madcat]

Actually, now that I think about it... My first one was FlameRider35, not Black Arrow. Plus it's still the one I use in most places including Xbox Live.

Edited by The Madcat, 03 April 2012 - 07:02 AM.