Please I need an action adventure stories with a touch of romance, any recommendation will be appreciated
Please I need an action adventure stories with a touch of romance, any recommendation will be appreciated
depends on how you define romance!
many of my stories are action adventure stories, but most are light on what I call romance. But some you may like are below:
https://storiesonline.net/a/ernest-bywater
https://storiesonline.net/universe/891/clan-amir
https://storiesonline.net/s/46696/shiloh
https://storiesonline.net/s/11941/out-of-reach
https://storiesonline.net/s/11053/a-farmers-life
https://storiesonline.net/s/66183/finding-home
https://storiesonline.net/s/11523/flames-of-life
https://storiesonline.net/s/14135/life-is-change
https://storiesonline.net/s/11363/mack-coming-of-age-story
https://storiesonline.net/s/14392/mallard-heir
https://storiesonline.net/s/16691/boone-the-early-years
https://storiesonline.net/s/13761/play-ball
https://storiesonline.net/s/13144/will-to-survive
https://storiesonline.net/s/18876/blind-luck
Kraken has a series of stories about robledo mountain that have an ongoing romance between the protagonist and the love of his life, especially the first story.
https://storiesonline.net/s/18187/robledo-mountain
Tales from the Shack by Todd_d172:
https://storiesonline.net/universe/921/tales-from-the-shack
Drive by Burnt Redstone:
https://storiesonline.net/s/21893/drive-by-burnt
Check out the Highway Song entries:
https://storiesonline.net/event/5/highway-song
Have you looked through just about any of Argon's stories?
https://storiesonline.net/a/argon
Then there's aubie56's action-romance stories.
https://storiesonline.net/a/aubie56
And you might want to check out many of Woodmanone's stories. I recommend his series, Trilogy - all 16 stories.
https://storiesonline.net/a/woodmanone
PS I just came across an SOL writing event that might interest you. The collection features romance but a number have their share off action.
https://storiesonline.net/event/4/wine-and-old-lace
'Fourth Vector' by CJ McCormick might be worth a try. It's currently in progress.
ETA - there are two very good stories by The Blind Man that you might enjoy: 'Game World' and 'Gateway - What Lies Beyond'.
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there are two very good stories by The Blind Man that you might enjoy: 'Game World' and 'Gateway - What Lies Beyond'.
Gateway - What Lies Beyond is the story where the MC fires a .50 BMG caliber sniper rifle from horseback.
The muzzle blast of that .50 cal. rifle is louder and more concussive than a flash-bang grenade, and the rifle mentioned weighs 35 pounds.
where the MC fires a .50 BMG caliber sniper rifle from horseback.
Not having read the story, the most likely candidate in real world weapons would be a Barret (the first company to produce .50 BMG sniper rifle).
The weight varies depending on the specific model, but the heaviest is only 32.5 pounds. The lightest is just 23.
https://barrett.net/
You need a scope and sling and ammunition and those add weight.
.50 cartridges are about 4 ounces each (some less, some more).
A scope suitable for 2 mile shooting is not small or light.
A scope suitable for 2 mile shooting is not small or light.
You also need a very stable shooting position for that kind of shot. Off the shoulder on horse back wouldn't cut it. I think it safe to say that the shooter in the described scenario isn't going for a 2 mile shot.
The thing a lot of people forget is that while .50 BMG rifles are mostly made as long range sniper weapons, they are also useful at short range against light armored vehicles.
The thing a lot of people forget is that while .50 BMG rifles are mostly made as long range sniper weapons, they are also useful at short range against light armored vehicles.
Especially when loaded with a Mk211 HEIAP round - high-explosive incendiary armor-piercing - which goes bang in a big way when it hits the target.
The thing a lot of people forget is that while .50 BMG rifles are mostly made as long range sniper weapons, they are also useful at short range against light armored vehicles.
Of which the cavemen in the world they were going to had how many of?
Of which the cavemen in the world they were going to had how many of?
Perhaps not in modern terms of mechanized armor, but if you have to kill Pleistocene epoch megafauna such as a mastodon or ancient bison...
if you have to kill Pleistocene epoch megafauna such as a mastodon or ancient bison...
An ordinary everyday elephant rifle will likely do that with less recoil or expense.
An ordinary everyday elephant rifle will likely do that with less recoil or expense.
If you've put the characters into a Pleistocene setting, it's not like they can go out and buy firearms they didn't bring with them in the first place.
If they have a Barret M82 and they don't have an elephant gun...
ETA: Also, if your characters are starting from the US, it's not like there are any mass produced elephant guns you can go out and buy off the shelf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_gun
The American gun market produced several famous dangerous game cartridges around this time, such as the .458 Winchester Magnum, .378 Weatherby Magnum and .460 Weatherby Magnum and many of these were 'wildcatted' (to modify an existing case and rifle to fire a different caliber bullet). The rest of the old Nitro express calibers had faded to obscurity until a recent resurgence in safari hunting came about in the 1970s and 80s. This prompted a new boom in elephant gun development and calibers such as the .416 Weatherby Magnum and .416 Remington Magnum arrived in factory offerings. The late 1980s and 1990s produced the .700 Nitro Express and the new brass manufacturers allowed even more powerful elephant guns such as the .585 Nyati by Ross Seyfried, .577 Tyrannosaur by Colonel Art Alphin and .585 Gehringer by Karl Gehringer to be made by wildcatters. The .600 Overkill made by Rob Garnick represents at this moment the greatest power available from a standard hunting action.
Doing some searching, I can't find anything for sale new that takes any of the above listed rounds.
Lest weight and recoil I can believe. Less expense when you are talking a custom made gun and custom made ammo? That, I'm not buying.
IIRC the expedition in the story is not a US military operation, the only military veteran is the MC and he is prior service not active duty.
So you are looking at buying off the shelf not drawing from the armory and an off the shelf .458 Winchester can be bought for a lot less than the cost of a Barrett M82.
Rifles for the .458 WM are mass produced, at least as much so as the Barrett M82.
The most likely candidate if it is a Barrett is the M82A1 which is listed as 32.7 pounds, not sure if that includes the magazine or not, but you still need to add in the weight of the 10 .50 calibre rounds to the weight of the rifle, and I can't find a weight on them, but I do know they aren't light weight items.
However, they are heavy rifles and they have one hell of a kick when fired. I know that I, like most people, would be lying on the ground beside the horse after firing a M82 from horseback. And that's just as a result of the kick, let alone the horse's reaction to the round being fired. Even a horse used to the sound of a n M16 or a .303 would jump at the sound of a .50 going off over its head.
Even a horse used to the sound of a n M16 or a .303 would jump at the sound of a .50 going off over its head.
Has anyone considered that the rider might have chosen a deaf horse to ride?
Obviously the drawback would be the inability to have the horse fitted with shoes as that would prevent it reading braille.
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Has anyone considered that the rider might have chosen a deaf horse to ride?
you'd have to train it to respond to knee commands, but it's be a real bugger to call in from the field each day.
but it's be a real bugger to call in from the field each day.
Use radio.
All you'd need would be a stable signal...
:)
you still need to add in the weight of the 10 .50 calibre rounds to the weight of the rifle, and I can't find a weight on them, but I do know they aren't light weight items.
Depends on projectile weight but as an average call it 4 ounces each.
Depends on projectile weight but as an average call it 4 ounces each.
So the 10 rounds in the magazine would be another two and a half pounds. However you want to regard the rifle it's damned heavy once you have it operationally ready.
Horses and mules during World War I you know the war to end all wars would not even react to the artillery so it is possible for a horse to not react to any noise even a .50 cal .
When we are training our horses here we use car horns, air horns, dogs, kids, and guns so that during parades they will not react unpredictably to noise or that is the hope.
I know it wasn't a .50 cal but there are pictures of soldiers standing on the saddle of a horse and firing their rifles so it is possible to have a horse not react to the noise.
The muzzle blast of a .50 is beyond noise, the pressure wave would stun the horse.
You can bet those WW1 horses were not standing next to the front end of the artillery when it was fired.
The muzzle blast of a .50 is beyond noise, the pressure wave would stun the horse.
Not if you have the muzzle out in front of the horse's head when you fire. Those rifles aren't just heavy, they are long. The Barret 82A1 or 107A1 are 57" vs 43.5" for an M1 Garand.
The muzzle brake diverts some of the blast toward the back and sides to attempt to reduce the 200 ft/lbs of recoil.
The muzzle brake diverts some of the blast toward the back and sides to attempt to reduce the 200 ft/lbs of recoil.
Yes, but there would still be a conical "shadow" in the pressure wave directly behind the muzzle or firing it would stun the shooter too.
If you are firing over the horse's head with the muzzle out past the nose of the horse, that shadow is probably large enough to protect the horse.
Horses and mules during World War I you know the war to end all wars would not even react to the artillery so it is possible for a horse to not react to any noise even a .50 cal .
From what i read about the use of horses by the military they always moved them well away from the artillery by a dozen or so metres before firing the guns as the blast when close would spook the horses. There's a heck of a difference in decibel levels between a normal rifle and a .50 or artillery.
The shooter who is directly behind the rifle is usually advised to use both ear plugs and ear muff style hearing protection, and even that is considered not really enough.
I can't say for sure but I would think that moving the animals back wasn't so much about protecting them from noise as it was to protect the additional ordnance that they would be carrying to support the guns or maybe it was just to get them out of the way as they do with modern vehicles that tow the guns. I know from watching my sisters ex-husband that they would pull the gun into place and as the gun was being deployed the vehicle that towed the gun was pulled a set distance away. I can't say how far the vehicles moved away as we where observing the movement from a televised feed.
As for decibel level yes a .50 beats a normal rifle but I put my money of an artillery piece be much stronger and louder than a .50 . Plus they did have hearing protection for animals as well as gas masks but who can say how well they where used as the life span of horses and mules wasn't very long.
Oh I just remember so it is out of order but I remember reading in one of the WWI books the horses where targeted by observers as they where easier to spot and harder to hide.
Depending on the rifle, a .50 BMG runs between 161 and 170 decibels when fired. It also has a much longer impulse; approximately 3x that of an M4 5.56.
A happy horse that does not make.
runs between 161 and 170 decibels
...at what distance? SPL needs the distance it's measured at to be meaningful, as the sound power drops off with distance - double the distance = 1/4 the power = 3 or 6 dB less (I can't remember if SPL is amplitude=pressure based for 3dB, or power based for 6dB).
ETA: It's pressure based, relative to a reference of 0,00002 Pa RMS.
Measurements of the Barrett M82 have been around 180 decibels, people do not realize that a muzzle brake makes the rifle louder.
Muzzle break = loudener (hat tip to the Simpsons).
Silencer = muffler. I've shot a pistol with a silencer/moderator. It was still loud, it just didn't hurt without earmuffs.