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28 October 2004, 17:03
Michael Robinson
Re: What Do You Think of This Statement?
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.
26 October 2004, 15:36
Aspen Hill Adventures
....and the .243 roared!< !--color-->

For some reason, I just cannot relate to that.

I found this in a hunting article and well....

Anyway, what do you think?
26 October 2004, 15:47
gas57
A carbine 243 with a muzzle brake and no hearing protection ???
Jeff in Texas
26 October 2004, 15:47
Will
It probably did roar, with a muzzle brake.
26 October 2004, 15:48
lawndart
..and the 243 make a crisp pop, like the first fart after hemorrhoid surgery < !--color-->
26 October 2004, 15:56
coues
Crawled too close to the scope and got bit???
Closed bolt on a finger???

There'd be some roaring from these. LOL
26 October 2004, 15:57
Aspen Hill Adventures
JCN,

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?
26 October 2004, 16:24
Axter
He was in a barrel with no hearing protection and fired it off for fun???
26 October 2004, 16:29
JBoutfishn
I am thinking more like a popcorn f*** in a whirlwind.
26 October 2004, 16:42
TheBigGuy
Should have read, "The 243 made a cracking noise like an ice cube dropped in a hot cup of piss!"

Anyhow, probably why I am not an editor
26 October 2004, 17:08
GeorgeS
Was the writer shooting from inside a vehicle or box blind?

George
26 October 2004, 17:16
retreever
John, I like your bedside manner...


Mike
26 October 2004, 17:37
T.Carr
Was it written by my neighbor? I was helping him site in his .243 and he said, "Hang on to it, as it really kicks."

Regards,

Terry

P.S.
One day I will let him help me site in my .416.
26 October 2004, 17:58
RIP
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?"
26 October 2004, 18:15
Andrew McLaren
Kathi,

I agree with you.

A .505 Gibbs could have ROARED. A .470 NE could have ROARED. Some others could also have roared. The best a .243 coud have done is mewed.

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren.
26 October 2004, 18:52
NitroX
A big bore doesn't roar it BOOMS.



A medium bore ROARS.



A magnum/ultra-velocity SCREAMS.



A small medium bore SNAPS.



A small bore SHRIEKS.







I would think it is OK to say a .243 roars especially if you are a bystander on the side of the muzzle.
26 October 2004, 19:14
lawndart
A .243 WHINES.
26 October 2004, 19:16
Kyler Hamann
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
26 October 2004, 20:45
prof242
Uh, could we say standard .45-70 loads belch? Oooh, now I'm in for it.
26 October 2004, 22:51
LV Eric
Sounds like a wanna be to me.
27 October 2004, 01:17
Terry Blauwkamp
Sounds like something out of Safari Times.
27 October 2004, 01:17
Aspen Hill Adventures
Kyler, your response is way too politically correct and that is not allowed here in the forums of Dangerous Big Game hunting. Shame on you!

To give you all some more information, the story was about a hunt, taken on a Kansas preserve.

I still can't relate to the term "roared"< !--color--> for such a caliber. Am I being hard core? Unsympathetic?
27 October 2004, 01:42
ibexebi
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
27 October 2004, 01:46
Marterius
Quote:

I still can't relate to the term "roared"< !--color--> for such a caliber. Am I being hard core? Unsympathetic?




Yes Ann, you are unwomanly unsympathetic!

But JCN almost made me skip my lunch.

As to the sound, I guess I could accept that a .243 "ripped". My 7mm08 might even have "cracked", at least in a still, clear moring, but not a .243.

Regards,
Martin
27 October 2004, 01:54
Aspen Hill Adventures
It was not used on a deer.

BTW- the atricle was written by a man too.
27 October 2004, 01:57
Aspen Hill Adventures
Martin,

Many of the guys here would have used the term "ripped" as in ripped one which would seem a more appropriate term.
27 October 2004, 01:59
ibexebi
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
27 October 2004, 04:53
GeorgeS
The best a .243 can do is 'bark'. The writer (or editor)must have been adjective-challenged at the time.

George
27 October 2004, 05:15
BFaucett
Quote:

....and the .243 roared!< !--color-->

For some reason, I just cannot relate to that.

I found this in a hunting article and well....

Anyway, what do you think?





"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.

Just my ramblings...
-Bob F.
27 October 2004, 05:37
MacD37
Quote:

....and the .243 roared!< !--color-->

For some reason, I just cannot relate to that.

I found this in a hunting article and well....

Anyway, what do you think?




16" guns on a battle ship "ROAR", bigbore shoulder rifles "BOOM", and the high speed rounds like a 243 "CRACK", while the little .22 Lr "POPS"!

The only problem is, when something is about to bite you,and your rifle doesn't do any of those, but only "CLICKS"!
27 October 2004, 06:10
b.martins
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
27 October 2004, 08:14
TerryR
Ann
How about " The mighty 243 chirped out its song of death and the doe crumpled." ?
TerryR

I think I'm going to throw up.
27 October 2004, 12:04
dogcat
UURRP!
28 October 2004, 06:05
coues
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!!!!
28 October 2004, 07:18
Die Ou Jagter
All guns ROAR just ask Hillery et al!