Bakes you asked about the "size" of the Boys. Here are a couple of my photos back when I used to try to "hunt" with the thing in New Mexico.

I am 5' 8 1/2" tall to give you some reference. And it looks like I cleverly rested the butt pad on top of my boot to keep the gun out of the sand.



And another "size" picture for you.



As I recall the thing weighed 36 pounds. You would think this would be so heavy it wouldn't kick...but you would be in for a rude awakening when you pulled the trigger.

[ 01-31-2003, 09:39: Message edited by: Pecos45 ]

Mehul - Here is the best picture I have found to date of the .20 mm Lahti I used to shoot. It's a better picture than my Boys stuff...but sadly there is nothing in it to give you a real appreciation of the SIZE of the Lahti. It is a MUCH larger gun than the Boys. Just imagine the black box magazine on top of the gun is about the size of a brief case and you will get a pretty good idea how big the gun really is.

20mm Lahti -



[ 01-31-2003, 09:44: Message edited by: Pecos45 ]

I like the skis on the Lathi. Too bad you dont have it any longer, you could show a few BMGers what a BIG gun really is.

How hard was ammo to come by when you had the Lathi?

Kristofer

It would be fun to have a shot of the beast, but I hate to be the poor bugger that had to fight with it I bet the troops made themselves scarce when the SGT wanted a boys gunner.

Bakes

I have posted some pics of the Australian Army's new AW50 sniper rifle in the Misc forum by mistake
(you bloody fool Bakes )
Its not as big as your boys Pecos.

Bakes

Thanks Pecos for the pictures. You really are a lucky man to have been able to shoot the most powerful guns ever made! Most of us here can only dream about these monsters.

Good shooting!

Awesome Pecos!!!
and still in that dang ameoba camo!!
jeffe

Pecos,

Cool pictures! When were they taken? I did not know you owned/operated a Finnish 20mm Lahti.

Axel