My… my what now? Is that a euphemism?
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You mean the 44 isn’t for .44 caliber? Well now I’m embarrassed.
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I’ve never heard it called a hog leg…
Closest I’ve seen is a cut down lever action refereed to as a mare’s leg.
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There was also a 6 foot tall version. @mister44 could bring a couple rifles and you’d still be… Safe.
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huh, I’ll be damned, it does look like a hog leg, dunnit?
I’m glad you spoke up, because I was confused, too. I’ve heard a piece of road that bends sharply and then sharply back to the prior general direction called a dog leg, but the only thing I’ve ever heard called a “hawg leg” was I think an in-joke with the skaters I used to hang out with: when they went in on a whole eighth of bud and threw it all into a single blunt. I guess because it was hard to keep it a perfect cylinder.
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I’ve heard large pistols (dunno if specifically .44 caliber) referred to as hoglegs in fiction of sufficiently hard boil.
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well, I’ma start using it, too!
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And I’d have sworn up and down that Rooster Cogburn referred dismissively to Mattie carrying her father’s old hog leg around, but it’s not in the scripts online of either version of “True Grit”. I’ve certainly heard it in some western or other.
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That video turned out better than I was expecting.
When my much older brother took me shooting when I was but a wee lad, he let me fire a few rounds from his .44 Magnum. He’d load his own ammo, so the first couple of loads were light and thirteen year old me could handle the kick.
The third round was hot (i.e. - lots of powder) and put me on my ass.
And, yes, I would refer to a larger revolver as a hog leg.
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Huh, new term to me. Guess I will add it to the lexicon, but I hate pigs, so no, I won’t be using the term to describe my .44.
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So, how much ammo will it take out of this gun to open up Rob safe?
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No idea. I’d start with a pry bar or a drill - but I don’t know enough about safes to break one open, much less shoot one open.
If I tried to shoot something open I’d use a rifle with armor piercing ammo. They have a hardened steel core. Regular bullets will go through soft steel with ease, no idea if his safe is hardened steel or not.
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Isn’t a scope on that kind of spurious? Does it improve your grouping, like, at all?
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From the very quick search i did on it, it is a red dot system which makes it easier for the shooter to aim precisely and quickly. If it does have magnification it’s probably a low powered sight, but it could have higher magnification i’m just guessing.
If one were to want to use a handgun to shoot at longer distances it’d be more useful to get something that has a detachable shoulder stock to transform it into a carbine since you’d have improved accuracy.
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looks identical to this one. Is the lock the same?
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Answered and commented on here, so we don’t get any firearms in Rob’s safe.
Finally got my own “vintage” Megatron. I made friends with a President of a toy company in Singapore. So he sent me one of the Japanese re-releases with all the extras and it didn’t require and orange tip.
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When I saw that one I thought the same thing. Lock had been removed though, dial and all. No details like combinations or anything were around. It didn’t appear to have been busted into. The larger safes there were also lockless and abandoned.
Seriously though, what are the chances? @anon67050589, exactly.
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Seems to me you could just build a Lego Mindstorm robot to run through all the combinations with in a few days. Stop being lazy.
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