So I we were sitting on the couch at Saeeds place, shooting the breeze and I popped the question "Saeed can I shoot the T-Rex?"

I saw a faint smile curl his mouth and I swear I saw his eyes twinkle.

"You want to shoot the T-Rex" He said

"Yep, I can't come to your place and not have a shot"

"OK lets go"

So off we raced down to the legendary range.
At the range Saeed gave me the rifle so I could dry fire it and then he made ready. That means he got the video camera ready. He handed me an artil...er..T-Rex round and says

"you know its really not that bad" He said with a very serious expression

At this point I was feeling pretty cocky about how I would go, after all I out weigh Saeed by just a little bit and thought if he could do it so could I.

I loaded the rifle and hauled it up to my shoulder. Sighted down range, took a breath and slowly let it out as I started to curl my trigger finger.

Now this is where things get a little hazy, because you see I have lost my short term memory and can only piece together what happened next by the flash backs that pop into my head at different times and by the dreams I have where I wake up sweating and screaming.

A split second after I pulled that trigger someone detonated a small nuclear device close by. I don't know how he got into Saeeds house or why he was there in the first place but current heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko punched me fair in the shoulder. My head rocked back so hard that my eyeballs actually stayed in the same place for a second before the optic nerve went tight and my eyes snapped back into my head. The rifle leapt off my shoulder as I staged back a pace and at the same time I could hear some manic laughter. I looked at Saeed and his lips were moving but I couldn't hear anything, so I took off my ear muffs...and that didn't help at all his lips still moved but no sound came out.

That night was Hessa's birthday party and I met a lot of Saeed friends, but they must of thought I was an ignorant bastard as all I did was look at them and smile and nod my head. I could see them asking me questions and talking to me but all I heard was a high pitched tone.

At night when I close my eyes I keep seeing that twinkle in Saeeds eye and hear him say

"you know its really not that bad"

Bakes Meets The T.Rex

Brave man.

Haha, classic!
Yep agree you had to try.
Would you do it again?

Video please Bakesy.

Didnt happen without pics dude. Anyone can write a gay story about how tough they are ....

quote:

Originally posted by muzza:
Didnt happen without pics dude. Anyone can write a gay story about how tough they are ....

+1

A photo isnt really going to cut it either.... really needs too be a video.

I have the video of Tony's sufferings

But, it is going to take me a while before I can post it.

I am in the process of doing our safari video, once that is done, I will post Tony's video here.

Ah thats good,I only this week reviewed for the 10th time the previous video compilation for some laughs and awe.

Well written Tony
Good man for giving it a shot

quote:

Originally posted by Saeed:
I have the video of Tony's sufferings

But, it is going to take me a while before I can post it.

I am in the process of doing our safari video, once that is done, I will post Tony's video here.

Well done Saeed - love ya work!!!

Hehe.... Good man Bakes. You know you just had to do it

Cheers,
Mark.

Good One Bakes, I was there too a few years ago. Saeed sure is a good host, he picked me up from my Hotel and we had a Grand Tour. How about the Cheetah watchdogs ? The T-Rex ? Check out the video on You Tube ''John didn't drop it'' Regards to all ..Dhufish..

I shot it when I visited Saeed in 2007. The gun just doesn't kick as hard as it appears to in the videos with the hapless neophytes.

That said, I did not shoot the .700NE.

George

I guess I'll own up to being the only puss here. I have no desire to shoot it from the videos I have seen! It would probably make me bleed.

Ok I'm hooked, wheres the old video for review?

Bakes you'd better get on along home mate. I hear theres other things you might sucker into around there.
George

The video is in Tony's post at the to of this thread.

Enjoy!

Reduced load or not that rifle has some boost!

The load was 180 grains of powder with a 750 grain bullet!

Nothing reduced about it.

Ah I thought I heard a comment on the video that it was a reduced load.

quote:

Originally posted by gryphon1:
Ah I thought I heard a comment on the video that it was a reduced load.

I wanted to ease Tony's pain, that is all

I dont think that actually worked at all..he looked stunned!

Hence my opening post Gryph

Saeed:
ok, 180gr of WHAT powder?

Hey, I've gotta watch this since I have a .72 cal M/L in the works Ed Rayl said: "figure a max load of 250gr FFg and 1400gr slug" Start low and work up because you'll never be able to handle the full max this barrel is capable of".

I reworked a Lee 1oz 12ga slug mold to cast a decent looking bullet of 1160gr. By taking the sprue plate off and sticking the spout down in the hole. When it feels like its starting to set up, just twist the mold a bit and it comes out with a fine looking HP of 1/8" deep x 3/8" dia. Thing is I forgot to make grease grooves so it has to be remade from new blocks.

Tony's shocker is loading now.
Thanks for sharing,
George

Good on ya mate . Always good to play with other peoples toys - and you know they wouldn't have let you fire that if it was really going to hurt you , eh ? ( laughing to self as he types that .. )

braver than me, well done

Ah so that's where he got his driving skills.

Braver man than me.
I will stick to my 458 wimp mag

Good on ya, Bakes!