# Choose your boom-stick! \*Time-Travel Hypothetical\* **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-boom-stick-time-travel-hypothetical/710417 "2015-01-20T21:55:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-boom-stick-time-travel-hypothetical/710417/41 "2015-01-23T15:05:48Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > There’s one button to open the breach and then there’s the trigger. Woah, woah, woah, slow down, geez do you think I’m Einstein or something? Actually I was thinking about this and a laser-sight might be useful to spook the knight and/or his horse if you used it to dazzle him unexpectadly. Should certainly help in putting him off and give you more time to aim anyway. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-boom-stick-time-travel-hypothetical/710417/42 "2015-01-23T16:30:31Z")
just because I’m a goddamned Sexual Tyrannosaur; the General Electric XM214 Minigun [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O\_lnq0HYBQE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_lnq0HYBQE) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-boom-stick-time-travel-hypothetical/710417/43 "2015-01-23T16:52:53Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > just because I’m a goddamned Sexual Tyrannosaur; > > the General Electric XM214 Minigun > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O\_lnq0HYBQE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_lnq0HYBQE) That is not a man-portable weapon. Read the OP again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-boom-stick-time-travel-hypothetical/710417/44 "2015-01-23T16:56:14Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That is not a man-portable weapon. Read the OP again. 😉 😕 Both, Jesse Ventura and Bill Duke carried it solo. What am I missing? It’s ~60 lbs weapon and ammo combined. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-boom-stick-time-travel-hypothetical/710417/45 "2015-01-23T17:10:33Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > 😕 Both, Jesse Ventura and Bill Duke carried it solo. What am I missing? It’s ~60 lbs weapon and ammo combined. A few hundred pounds of batteries and 300 lbs of recoil energy. 3000 rounds of 7.62 NATO weighs about 159 lbs (not counting the links). The gun itself is 85 lbs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-boom-stick-time-travel-hypothetical/710417.md?page=2)