A stupid bolt gun? Our friends "Charlie" used those crappy Moison-Nagant 7.62x54 Russian bolt guns with a "Buck Rogers" scope to some effect in the shoot-out some 40 years ago. I'll take a Bolt action rifles anytime- even over the Dragunov-which was NOT a crappy Moison-Nagant. A .50 cal. Barrett is a fine weapon and I like to stay with the tried and true-The great Browning-Colt 1911= later 1911-A1 in .45 ACP came about when Doug MacArthur was a Captain in the Phillipines-officers and some non-coms carried a .38 Colt revolver as an issue sidearm then- and the drug crazed natives and their heavy leather shields were not slowed down one bit by the .38- at least not by one round-hence the development of the .45ACP-still the most used and copied defensive sidearm in the free world- with the Browning 9mm Hi-Power and perhaps the German Luger and Walthers after that-RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..