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My Favorite Fantasy

nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I would like to go back in time to February, 1836. Location: The Alamo in Bexar.

I would like to take with me several M2 .50 caliber machine guns, a few .30 cals, a dozen or so M79 launchers, maybe a few field pieces and mortars capable of making accurate hits at 1000 yards or so.

Also, equip each troop with a new M16A2. And bring lots of ammo for everything.

How about a tank or two?

Get there early enough to familiarize the men with the workings of their new weapons.

Then let's see how it turns out.

SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • PupPup Member Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nunn.....Sounds rather interesting, but you're not considering something very important. If you and the rest of the Alamo boys annihilate all those Mexica.....I mean Latinos, then their decendants wouldn't be around today to pour over the border at every avaliable opportunity, put a strain on the health care and welfare systems of the border states, set up networks for both illegals as well as drugs getting here, demand "English as a Second Language" in our public schools, ruin a perfectly good Chevrolet by making it bounce up and down for no reason whatsoever, give new meaning to the phrase "drive by", quadruple the time spent in line at the DMV because the guy in front of you can niether speak nor read english yet gets his liscence anyway, and turn what once was a good old standard July 4th parade into "an expression of multiculturalism that will foster goodwill toward diversification of the various ethnic classifications in the community". I know you wouldn't want to deny todays society of all that fun. If we're going to submit outlandish fantasies, try this one on for size. The starship Enterprise being a real, fully functional and crewed vessel orbiting the Earth with your truly as the Supreme Commander for All Time. I do believe things would get straightened out in a hurry. Hmmm....does this mean I've been reading too much of Judge Dredds' stuff?

    Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often and for the same reason.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep. That means you have been taking the medication that Dread should have been takeing.

    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."

    Edited by - Alpine on 08/07/2002 14:43:50
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

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    Mark Twain
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nunn,
    Often thought about such things myself. Sqawned while a young lad. I was watching an episode of the Twilight Zone in which Warren Oates was a tank commander and they found themselves approaching General Custer and his men.

    Imagine going back to the scene with A-3's, 1911's and plenty of ammo.
    Not to be hammered by any American Indians, I guess that's the proper term now, this is only a fantacy. I admire the redman (I guess that's okay as well) for his survival skills and love of nature.
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Did you ever see the movie where the USS Nimits was displaced through a time warp back to Pearl Harbor before the Japs attacked? They used the actual ship for the film and one of my friends has a talking part in one seen on the bridge... Now that would be cool, modern day battle group goes back 60 years. How different would the world be right now, lol...

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hmmm, well, limiting this to the PG rated ones . . . .

    Mine involves having the means to identify, locate and travel instanteously to the near vicinity of certain individuals of the Islamic faith followed by some activities involving sharp objects and the sacrifice of some innocent pigs.
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    An interesting exercise in whimsey, one I must admit I also indulge in. I do pick different historic events however, ones where a change in the winner would have an impact on history. In both examples above, the Alamo or the Little Big Horn, changing the winner of the battle would not result in a significant change in history. Doesn't really change much if Santa Ana looses at the Alamo or later, or if the sioux are defeated at the Greasy Grass or later, does it? I also like to pick conflicts where the bad guys won and we go back to help the good guys.
    So, what would happen if you could take a few good men, (say a Marine rifle squad, circa 1951, complete with 3 BAR's and 10 M1's with a 1919A4 and a 60MM attached) back to the plains of Hastings to provide Harold a much needed strengthening of his left flank? Or back to Angicourt (sp?) to give the French a means to out-range the english long bow? What if you could do something as simple as giving satelite imagery to Napoleon at Waterloo or radios to James at the battle of the Boyne?


    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Give Patton a division of M1 Abrahms tanks, Bradley's and APC's.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • Jody CommanderJody Commander Member Posts: 855 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would like to go back in time and give Monica Lewinsky snaggled teeth and the hiccups.
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  • Jody CommanderJody Commander Member Posts: 855 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would like to go back in time and give Monica Lewinsky snaggled teeth and the hiccups.
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jody-
    How about just going back and giving Paula Jones a camera? That would've nipped it in the bud...so to say.
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  • yaneviyanevi Member Posts: 22 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    How about arming the CSA with AK-47s?
    A really good book was actually written about it by an author called Harry Turtledove. Called Guns of the South.
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, mine takes a bit of a twist, that is arming the seminole tribe with ak's and claymores back in about 1826 and riding with my gggggreat uncle shanghi pierce. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    How about giving Picket a few APCs & a bazooka on the CSS Virginia?
    Maybe an electric motor for the Hunley or think of what a few ultra-light aircraft could accomplish?
    Simpliest of all would be to squash the Missouri Compromise. If the War for Southern Independence had started a few years earlier the outcome would have been far more favorable.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    How about giving the Union a nuclear weapon.

    AlleninAlaska

    Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, i've no doubt the union would've used em if they had nukes. look what sherman did with just fire. i do have another fantasy that involves pam anderson and a pool of rasberry jello. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    How about giving armor plating to the buffalo herds.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would like to be standing behind the supposedly patriotic men on the grassy knoll who thought President Kennedy deserved killing, and shoot each in the back of the head before they were able to get their shots off. He might have survived everything but the head shot(s).

    I would like to be pointing a sniper rifle at the assassin of MLK, Jr., and take the top of his head off just before he squeezes off a round at the man of peace on the motel balcony.

    I would love to have plugged Jack Ruby with my Charter .44 Pug before he did Oswald.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I'd go for the Ruby/Oswald intervention. The other two??? NAH!

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Remember the time when "rules of combat" dictated that troops were to line up in straight rows, slowwwwwly march to point blank range, and take turns firing into each other's lines until one guy had no troops left? a la the British in the revolutionary war?

    Wouldnt take more than one Ma-Deuce and maybe 200 rounds of ammo at the battle of Concorde....

    One .50 would probably go through 3-4 soldiers if they were all lined up straight and neat, like the British. :-)
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You guys are too serious!

    I just think about the awesome hunting and fishing I could have done with my current gear about 2 or 3 hundred years ago (back before jet-skis, industrial waste, empty beer cans and highway-runoff polluted the environment).

    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Ya Bullz and the Marine Corps changed trench warfare forever when they went to Europe during WWI by not abiding by that silly law that you charge my trench for 15 minutes and then you charge their trench for 15 minutes.

    Ryan, Will270Win help me on this, but who was that Marine in WWI that took out over 20 German officers at 1000 plus yards with less then 30 rounds of ammo?

    AlleninAlaska

    Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine would be outfitting the Indian Nations with compound bows from the French/Indian War to the Plains Wars.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maria!!!

    "We have created a coutry where nobody is responsible for anything."
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    One of two things. Either I too would have liked to gone back in time to help out the Confederacy (I feel their cause was just, even if slavery wasn't but that's a whole other can of worms). But I would have introduced an arm more on par with the time; something like a Mauser 71 or 1869 Vetterli- that is something that was just about to be invented; then I would have armed 10,000 troops with them at a pivotal battle like Gettysburg or Antitem. For that matter if I could give them 10,000 Henry rifles the result would be much the same. I root for the underdog and the south was at a disadvantage, but I would have liked to level the playing field, not give them overwhelming power.

    My other fantasy is a bit darker. Before WW2, it was often hoped that the Nazis and Communists would fight each other leaving the west out of it. Let them bleed each other white. If I could have gone back to Poland in 1939 after Germany had leveled the place and the USSR had invaded the eastern half, if I could have sparked an incident in 1939 before Britain and France were really drawn in whereby the USSR and Nazi Germany found each other in a shooting war two years earlier than historically... perhaps the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam... all would have been gone. BUT perhaps the USSR would have collapsed without the extra two years to prepare and Germany would have run the world... OR perhaps the USSR would have overrun Europe entirely. Risky.

    I too have a fantasy involving a few girls, a tub chocolate and cream, and myself but that is better left unsaid... but then what guy hasn't had such a fantasy at one time or another?

    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conf
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nunn;

    If the Alamo in Bexar is your idea of "My Favorite Fantasy" instead of a beautiful woman you need professional help. I believe they provide that where you work. I urge you to take advantage of this service right away.


    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I am old.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you ain't dead, you ain't that old!

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    David, what R9er said! LOL!

    R9er - remember, this is a PG rated board!
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1. Give guns to the indians.2. Stop Hinkley. We would not have Brady on our backs.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Flying a P-51 Mustang in combat during WWI.....wouldn't take too long to beat the Baron's record....
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  • inspectorknuckleheadinspectorknucklehead Member Posts: 81 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think that if I could go back in time I would "invent" the Windows computer program before Bill Gates got the chance. Then I'd be sitting on a private, tropical, beach somewhere with a dump truck full of $100.00 bills, instead of him.
    Just think of the guns, ammo and other toys you could buy with ten gozillion dollars.


    John Colson

    "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one" Luke 2:36
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    Hehe, I liked the idea of replacing Bill Gates =o)
    But before "reinventing" Windows, I'd give it a Linux Core instead...

    I've often thought it might be fun to go back to an old place, where a really big armed fight had taken place...
    and introduce them to "Bouncing Betty" mines, those that jump up to about 3-4 feet and explode... =o)

    I'd probably laugh my a** off !!!!!

    Regards
    Peter E J.
    Greenland.

    PS : Ever seen the movie TimeCop with Jean Claude Van Damme ?? Someone went back to meet the confederacy with a pair of mashineguns with lasersights..
    kind of an ego-boost for the person i think... meeting a unsuspecting group face-to....well faces..


    I love my silenced .22 Anshutz rifle =o) Now also my Steyr Scout in .308W. ;o_
    Those guns are YUMMMYYYY !
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  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pearl Harbor Dec 6th -- schedule "air raid drill" for next morning.

    How about a B-17 and some "smart bombs" over the Japanese fleet the morning after Pearl Harbor? Never know what hit them -- "sleeping dragon" indeed.


    There's a science fiction book called "The Jannisaries" about a rifle company that's abducted by a flying saucer and taken to a planet with medievil technology. Interesting twists to story.

    Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"
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  • homer4homer4 Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...find a Genie in a bottle at the beach. Hehe!

    "...Abby someone""Abby who"..."Abby Normal"
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    4,000 acres of land 200 men and the resouces ,logistics and infrastructure ....

    Lets do it NUNN ......... reality beats fantasy......100%

    JD ,Intel,Logistics,Counter-insurgency,MOSSAD,NSA,CIA,NIC,INTERPOL.

    "Just In case" Prepareness is the key to success.....

    JD



    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • IAMACLONE_2IAMACLONE_2 Member Posts: 4,725
    edited November -1
    Full access to Mike Dillion's ( Toy Vault ) & the pretty female models for 30days. Oh yeah, Ill need lots of ammo & a super place to stay.
    Mike Dillion of THE BLUE PRESS FAME
    ps: if you did not know, Dillion has one of the largest collections of firearms including a Huhges 500c helicopter with 2 mini guns on it.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dont mention ITTT ! some Guys here may die of erotic delirium with
    the .50 marvels at the vault..

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I could go back in time I would like to have been the head Photographer for PlayBoy Magazine.Id give old Hugh a break,and I would like to have Larry Flint Prevented from being shot,and Published Hustler.

    Im glad my wife dont read this forum or I might go back in time and think I Married Loraina Bobbit.

    Rugster
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  • mrs.gunpaqmrs.gunpaq Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hi Everyone,
    Hmmmm my fantasy,well I would say back to a time when men where men and women where women,husbands were husbands, and wives were wives,and you didn't need names tags or programs to figure who was who.Or, second fantasy would be to make gunpaq into a young indian buck.(here's where you insert smile.)(Or just a belly roll laugh.)

    Excuse Me!!!
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like gunpaq has a little catching up to do this week....

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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