Ever see the Peter Sellers movie about the tiny nation that declared war against the United States so it could lose and get foreign aid? It was called "The Mouse That Roared" and was pretty funny. A .243 is a mouse that doesn't roar: it pops.
Posts: 13880 | Location: New England | Registered: 06 June 2003
I am really starting to think think you doctors don't have "all that" after all. With that visual, I will most likely have nightmares tonight. EWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Anyone else for some more inspiration? Ganyana, how 'bout you? RIP? Terry? Nitro? Saeed?
What constitutes a roar?
Posts: 19818 | Location: The LOST Nation | Registered: 27 March 2001
Ann, Sorry, but I will not even try to top JCN. He has given an excellent example of why "FART" is no longer a proper medical term like it used to be 100 years ago. It is just too prone to being TOO FUNNY!!!
BTW, did Ass Clown write that article about the ".243 that roared?"
Posts: 28032 | Location: KY | Registered: 09 December 2001
Isn't it all relative? Even the enormity of something like a 20mm canon used on an asteroid could hardly be described as a roar. But a .22-250 used on a field mouse can easily launch the remains over a two-story house. In fact a .243 would have a tremendous muzzle energy to prey weight ratio on a prairie dog (e.g. 2,000/3 = 666) compared to a .404 on an rhino (e.g. 4,000/5000 = 0.8). I was surprised how tiny a .416 hole looked in an elephant (4,900/11,000 = 0.4) but I've turned ground squirrels inside out with the remains hanging high in trees from hits from a tiny .222 (1,000/1 = 1,000). No sporting weapons will do that to even medium sized game. My point (if I had one and no I wasn't a math major in college I only play one on the computer in the middle of the night): A .243 could "roar" given the correct prey size, but you're right it's an odd phraseology to say the least.
Kyler
Posts: 2522 | Location: Central Coast of CA | Registered: 10 January 2002
ann, the location explains it. a .243 "roars" when it is being used as "the ultimate charge stopper" in defense of life & limb for the ultra aggressive kansas white tail deer.
mike
Posts: 201 | Location: Virginia | Registered: 25 August 2004
I'm stumped then. That was the best scenario that I could come up with to explain the "roar". Unless as was suggested earlier some one pulled the trigger inside the cab of a pickup trying to get it out to shoot a coyote or a prariedog. LOL
mike
Posts: 201 | Location: Virginia | Registered: 25 August 2004
"The .243 ROARED< !--color--> and the MONSTER < !--color-->buck was hit hard." (Not a quote from any particular article.)
The two terms just seem to go together! I get so tired of reading "monster this" and "monster that" in magazines. It has to be one of the most overused terms in hunting magazines the last few years.
Probably that .243 has spent too much time on the gun cabinet between the .470 NE and the .577 T.Rex. And, just like my cat after watching to many MGM movies, it has learned to ROAR.
B.Martins
Posts: 538 | Location: Lisboa,Portugal | Registered: 16 August 2001
Way too much chili the night before. Or as the .243 Roars..
Having spotted the target, with the adrenalin blasting through my veins, I calmed my racing heart,settled my breathing, all the while anticipating the gentle but firm squeeze of the trigger. The shot picture could not be more perfect. At the shot, the .243 gave a sound like I had never heard before. It was a strange yet satisfying roaring sound. My target instantly dropped with the shot. I noticed a spreading warmth from my backside down to my toes, the warmth of a successful hunt? The anticipation of finding my trophy? I began to smell and odor wafting around me, could I have blown the shot? Taken my animal in the paunch? The spreading warmth I felt now felt a bit odd, liquidly, chunky even. It was then that I realized that the roar that I assumed was just I being in tune with the whole event and the .243 was actually me!!!!! I must go change my drawers!!!!
Posts: 337 | Location: flagstaff az | Registered: 16 November 2002
