Serbu Firearms, Inc., Tampa, Florida

markserbu · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: "MOAR"

Moar? Really? I guess as a pilot you're thinking "soar", so "moar" just comes naturally, right? Wink

Anyway, here's another pic. Anyone know the significance of the shirt? (aside from the fact that any normal person would have been using it for a rag by now).

P.S. Don't get me started on "i"!!
P.P.S. Turns out the finished BFG-50A weighs 23 pounds as shown!

mrkubota · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject:

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markserbu · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:43 pm Post subject:

Nah, no imaginary number joke. I think someone was complaining about their job being hard and I pointed out that in college I had to do awful things like solve arrays of equations containing imaginary numbers. Back in the old days (before the HP-28S), we had to do all sorts of calculator gymnastics to convert from rectangular to polar coordinates, solve for something...don't remember...convert back to rectangular, etc. One little error in the dozens of calculations and you had to start over. It's just lucky I made it through with my sanity somewhat intact!

Hey, TC...23 pounds is LIGHT!!

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restless · Plebe Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 11

Will the civilian production rifles have the long Picatinny rail?

I'm just trying to figure out what scope ring height I'll need to clear my objective's bell housing.

Hawaii five-0 · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:00 pm Post subject:

Well,it's been over a month since the good news.Were the rifles delivered on time?Why is where they are going such a secret?
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markserbu · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:31 pm Post subject:

It wasn't a huge secret, but I didn't know if the customer wanted it public that their military was buying a bunch of .50 BMG rifles. In any case it's a moot point now...there's still one little bug with the rifles and we didn't ship in time. So the contract's canceled. Ouch. Remember when I said that this stuff wasn't that hard? I changed my mind...IT'S HARD!!! But I'll get it figured out. Probably take another two weeks, though. Wink

Oh, and the t-shirt above was the same one (from SWR) I was wearing when I posed with the first BFG-50 to ship, serial number 2, back on 5/15/2000. A lot has happened since then. The friend who got #2 died a few years back from skin cancer. He was only 30 years old. Never ignore a mole! Joe Gaddini, who founded SWR, had gone on to much bigger and better things. The Grip Pod (for which I designed the rail clamp, actuating button and leg shape) is HUGE. Joe sold SWR a few years back and is semi-retired and living the good life. From time to time I stay in one of his guest houses on the compound where his 18,000 square foot main house is, down in Cape Coral, FL.

TCPilot · Guru Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 117 Location: PRK

Mark, I'm really sorry to hear that news. I hope your customer renews their order when the glitch is fixed.

Speaking of which, can you share? Do you need someone to test a rifle for you Very Happy

? I can put it through it's paces. We can call it "benign weather torture testing".

/TCP
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mrkubota · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:03 am Post subject:

Sorry, to read of the lost contract too... but hey... you want to trade 10 BFG50a rifles for 160ac of prime AZ ranch land? Smile

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markserbu · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:50 pm Post subject:

Wow, that's beautiful land! Do the rifles have to work? Wink

mrkubota · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:25 pm Post subject:

markserbu · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:55 pm Post subject: T-Shirt

There's that shirt. Damn, I had hair! And a wedding ring...ewwww... Smile