Need you a 12.7x108-millimeter DShK round.
Edit: Not you personally, your shelf.
You guys are making me miss my Nagant 
I used to have an M44 that was refitted with a fiberglass stock. It was a blast.
So the barrel exploded then? 
My fav is an old 16-gauge Lefaucheux pinfire with Belgium-made damasc barrels. It was my first restoration project when I was in gunsmithing school, so I have kind of a personal attachment to the thing. It fires smooth as a babyās bottom, itās light (and - donāt tell 5-0 - the stock is foldable for easy carrying). The only downside is, I have to reload my own pinfire shells.
Funnily enough, I hate taking my own creations out. I prefer taking someone elseās that have more history and more talent than Iāll ever have in em. Those damasc barrels for instanceā¦ I tried many times to forge something similar: I know the theory, and I tried my best to make the same ones, but really thatās a lost art. All my damasc barrel attempts ended up bursting.
Damn, Iām rambling againā¦
Not the one that was run by PO Ackley?
I donāt know much about gunsā¦ The reason I mention Ackley is that my wifeās grandfather was a friend of his. Her grandfather was a jeweler by trade, but an amateur gunsmith as well. Ackley developed several wildcat rounds that became more mainstream, and ran a gunsmithing school, originally in Beaverton Oregon.
Dev, Was that you doing the install?
Because thatās not what your voice sounds like in my headā¦
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Yeah was me, well we can say thatās my posh voice 
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All I can say is that Iāve been talking to people from all parts of the UK area during the course of this pandemic, and Devilās one of the few I can always understand no matter what time of day or what state heās in.
Also as an aside, they can all understand me but I often canāt understand them. Sometimes they canāt even understand each other. What does that tell you?
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Go far enough down south and I guarantee you a New Yorker will feel exactly the same way.
In all the countries Iāve lived in, itās the same story - although I will say an extreme example of that is Belgium: there are many villages 10 miles from one another that plain donāt understand each otherās patois, both in the French-speaking southern and in the Dutch-speaking northern part of the country. For a country the size of an oversize football pitch, thatās quite remarkable.
Back in the 1980s, myself and a Cockney were roommates while studying in Liverpool. The BBC broadcast a drama set in Glasgow (where I was born, but I donāt have a specific accent) and various people complained that they couldnāt understand a word of āTuttiFruttiā.
Neither myself, nor my roommate had any trouble with the accents we heard.
I have had some Americans claim that they canāt understand my accent, but that seems odd to me. (My accent is a mix of various bits but is not geographically specific. Most people canāt place me, including some people from former colonies.)
When one hits you and the other will miss? 
Also Dev:
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I meanā¦ I donāt know what a metric āmileā is 
But I can only assume @anon3825968 is referring to a kilometerā¦
My Entry level US made gun can and HAS hit beyond a kilometerā¦ try again :-p
(Iāve genuinely missed messing with rosco about metric system, glad to have you back buddy )
No. Both will hit you with equal precision and accuracy. But on the US rifle, you canāt help but noticing the forend wood thatās touching the barrel that shouldnāt be touching there, or the huge-ass gap left to avoid that unwanted interference where a European gunsmith would have strived to leave 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm, or the too-light break-action, or the lack of reserve on the locking lever, or the coarse engraving (Americans marvel at any old engraving, even if theyāre particularly poorly made or even machine-made, for reasons that completely elude me), or the gritty trigger, etc etcā¦ Little things that separate a good rifle from a great one.
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I aināt even biting Iām perfectly comfortable using both when and where it suits me, unlike you guys
Forend wood? How quaint haha
Hell, there are more than a few that they just removed the forend entirely,
Iām clearly team function over form
Ew, pass lol
This is actually a current struggle, I kind of want a semi decent over under, but no silver, or scrolling
Struggles
Iām pretty sure āmilā means a thousand soā¦ a thousand e's?
I canāt separate form and function. Thereās gotta be art and craftsmanship in a rifle. Thatās an integral part of of the hunt: looking at a beautiful piece, marveling at its balance, taking pleasure at aiming and firing it.
European gunsmiths very often blue and engrave internal parts that the user never sees, and take care to line up the screws, just out of pride when another gunsmith removes the locks for maintenance. I like that. Not many products are built like that in this day and age.
I donāt think weāre taking about the same thing
The art, is how well and reliable it performs its functionā¦
Salt Bath Nitride being superior to even the nicest blue as an example, *for the stuff that I feel
Matters
Does professional blue or case hardening look nice? Absolutelyā¦ but I want durable
The road forked a while ago for the different camps