Sniper rifle name

[billstewart]

Gunny, can you elaborate? I have been around Snipers, Sniper rifles and Sniping technology for the last 30 years and I have never heard of anything called a Kate.

Marty
Badger Ordnance

This is a TV series, and like the bourbon they use, call Old Edinburgh the Kate is probably also fiction.
The bourbon was the first thing I checked being Scottish and checking the lapua b51 nato round called a Kate led me to this site so thanks guys for clearing this up it's probably tv bs sounded good though.
Billstewart.

[John Sukey]

Never heard of "Old Edingurgh" But there is Gordons Single malt whiskey Yes, I know there is also gin by that name

[dryheat]

[QUOTE=RED;168059]Not at all unbelievable. My Army medic friend has a 7.62 tracer round that his team removed fron a Iraqi terrorist. It had gone thru a concrete block wall and ended up in the Iraqi's spine. Other than the tracer pellet being missing the projectile looks almost pristine (probably a APT)

My 8mm will go through 1" of soft steel(the 30-06 gives it a good try).
Usually the jacket peels off of the inner slug. Concrete isn't steel so I can't say.

[Shooter5]

Naming rifles seems to have passed, a relic of previous generations. Tankers still seem to name their guns or perhaps the tank itself. Although I did name one of my Deuce and a half trucks.
One of my buddies named his M24 "Justice" after 9/11 which I later was assigned. and yet another named his M4 "Jihad." Both carved the names into the buttstocks.

[joem]

Saw a motorized quad .50 set up on the back of a duce and a half named "the meat grinder". it was deployed in front of my bunker for cover after the wire was blown out. Miserable job replacing razor wire at dusk going onto dark thirty.

[TomSudz]

I don't remember the name, but the hummer we inherited from the Marines had a name. When we finally gave it back, they wanted to know its name. At least we remembered it then. Our new one we just called our limo.

[mike9905]

I am a big fan of NCIS but it is just entertainment. Every instance in this show where they try to give accurate info about firearms they get it mind numbingly wrong.

[John Sukey]

Then there is getting DNA test results in a few minutes! ROTFLMAO