[John Youngs]

Originally Posted by coldupnorth

Hey JY, were these pictures taken at your summer house..?? If you have a Barrett .50, you must have a lot of other nice toys. The barrett is usually not the fisrt and only gun in someone's collections...

coldupnorth - No, not my summer house (I wish I had one of those... - HA!) - just my modest home here in Tacoma, WA. Yes, I've got a few nice toys - both long arms and handguns as well. My favorite handgun is the Para Ordnance (carbon-steel frame) P-14 hi-cap .45ACP - 15 in the mag & one in the chamber - I carry it concealed in a Galco ("Miami Classic") shoulder rig with a matching Para Ord (also, carbon-steel frame) P-10 "Limited" on the other side; along with two extra 15-round mags. You can never be "over-armed" around here...
While I live in a nice section of town, there's enough hoodlums around these parts (again, thanks to the friggin' libs in this state) to "make life real interesting...!!". Listen, you send me your email address, I'll send you (via a large-file sender - it's free of charge!!) via "sendthisfile.com" the Barrett M82A1 .50BMG Light-Fifty factory demonstration video (about 100 megs in size) they gave me back in 1988 when I bought my second Barrett .50 - the one you see in my photos now. My first one was a very early model - it had a non-fluted barrel and weighed a ton. It also was MUCH more finicky on ammo type (bullet nose ogive - it would feed some types, but not others) so I finally got rid of it - a local police agency bought it from me - dunno if they ever had a need to use it, though. Ronnie Barrett personally sent me the video (VHS tape - I had a friend with the equipment convert it to a DVD) normally reserved for dealers and distributors - a nice touch!! I've got it on my computer - I'll send it to you if you'd like - just email me at JBY53@HARBORNET.COM and I'll send it to you or anyone else who wants a copy. It's just a tiny bit "choppy" in places (not the smoothest conversion I've seen, but oh well...), but not so bad that you can't tell what's going on or what's being said. Let me know!! - JY