Feild trials at the shooting match

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Saturday turned out to be a prety good day, and all the local shooters came out to the range for a day of blasting. Who would have thought with six trucks loaded with machineguns that two big ol knives would have drawn so much attention. I took the 18" AK and the BirGorkaha Bowie. I think the knives did more damage in the woods than four belt fed MG's. Some of the guys took the knives in the woods and tried to cut down every tree in sight and after a while they couldn't belive how well they kept there edge. A couple suggested that we see if they were bullet proof, as tough as they seem to be but I just couldn't bear the thought of that(besides I think it might void my Guarantee especially when my bud brought out the WWll flame thrower, talk about heat treating!) All in all the Khukuri and the Bowie were a big hit, and didn't suffer any damage a few strokes on a steel and they were scary sharp agin. I think a few might have cought the bug so look for some more business in the near future. :)
 
What MG's did you guys take out? Personally I would rather cut down trees with an MG than a khukuri. It would be a bit wasteful.

Dam you Americans, you guys get all the good toys. It's plain unfair to tease us up here in Canada.

I think we can legally own flame throwers though. They are certainly easy enough to make with one of those pressurized pesticide sprayers.

Will
 
Sounds like you Missouri boys have almost as much fun, and make almost as much noise, as we do up at Knob Creek.:D
 
..for its' humor an sometimes rowdy ways :D Gotta go some to beat KY, though. Our annual Knob Creek MG shoot, during Desert Storm, included a bathtub with a dummy dressed like Saddam Hussein. It was the final target in one of the shoot-offs, and someone with a Ma Duece or a .45-70 Gatling got first chance at it. It was told later that a neighbor complained that the coil had been jarred off his still when the four sticks of 40% in the bottom of the tub went off. Just good old boys out for an afternoon.
 
Originally posted by Walosi
..for its' humor an sometimes rowdy ways :D
Gotta go some to beat KY, though. Our annual Knob Creek MG shoot, during Desert Storm, included a bathtub with a dummy dressed like Saddam Hussein.
It was the final target in one of the shoot-offs, and someone with a Ma Duece or a .45-70 Gatling got first chance at it.
It was told later that a neighbor complained that the coil had been jarred off his still when the four sticks of 40% in the bottom of the tub went off.
Just good old boys out for an afternoon.
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One time when I lived outta state, Oklahoma that is, I was given a special invite out to a local rez for a little shootin
party.
I was only a little nervous because a lot of the people on the rez knew me and that I was alright. I had special hunting rights over most of the rez.
Anyway the place we was invited to wasn't on the places where I could go without possible trouble.
This place was off limits to Everyone that wasn't Tribal members!!!!

Sure enough when we got there they had already been shootin beer bottles offa posts. But it was cool for the moment.
I knew how things could go at these kind of events and was watchful and wary.
I didn't see any belt feds, but that didn't mean there weren't any around.
However some of the things I did see was enough to curl your toes up tight along with certain puckery parts of your anatomy not usually seen or talked about.;)
The sawed off shotguns didn't impress me much because they don't have that much usable range and I've heard that sawed off rifles lose a lot in group size.
HOWEVER that doesn't neccesarily mean anything when the rifle is sawn off (both ends) and the trigger sear has been worked on just right.:D
When those things went off it was just a brrrrrpp and it was over.
The guy holding the rifle always had a big smile on his face and if you could see where he was shootin there was a lot of dust being kicked up all at once.:)
There's a lot to be said for living on sovereign land that doesn't belong to the US Gubbiment.:D
We didn't stay too much longer as it started to be where some of the bottles warn't quite empty when they were put on the posts. There's just something about guns and alcohol that bothers me.. And it bothers me a great Dayumed Deal!!!!:D

One of these days I will see if the old pic of my Uncle Richard will be worth postin here. It shows him and a Bud somewheres down in the Arkansas Hill's in a holler with a little rig set up over a fire and a couple of shotguns standing close by.
I Have often wondered how many 'revenoors' seen the pic and wondered where it was set up.:D
The old pic's kinda faded and I don't know how well the 'coil' will show up online.;)
 
To name a few MP5A2, MP5A3, MP5SD the neat ones with the factory supressor,PPSH41, Grease guns, M1A1 Thompsons, different varities of sten guns, MAC10s' an MAC11's with any type of attachment you can put on them, a couple of M60's a couple of belt fed 1919A4 Brownings, 1 .50 cal. ma duce, AK47's,M16 in several cal. and a Checz gun that I can't recall the model, those are a few that come to mind right now. Shucks we probly shot up 500,000 rounds in a 7 hour fun fest. We try to get together a few times a year and scratch our trigger fingers. The only things that wasn't full auto were a few suppresed bolt action rifles and a Barret 82A1. I almost forgot the WWll flame thrower, it's one bad green machine, I almost hate to admit that I bought it off ebay. We always invite the public and let them shoot for no charge, we just enjoy seeing the look on their faces when they let go with a burst. Once last year the county sheriff landed the counties helicoptor there so he could join in the fun, but he wouldn't let us shoot belt feds from the side doors doing fly overs( I guess he thought the tax payers might get upset).
Walosi, next april catch me at Knob Creek and I'll let you fire a few of these weapons, heck my main shooting partner and I won first place at the first belt fed match Knob Creek had in 2000. We usually go twice a year to visit and compeat in just about every match they have. We have been talking about going in WWll uniforms but I'll have to have a M43 Khukuri to make it complet.
Any time ya'll are in my neck of the woods look me up and I'll let you pick your weapon of choice from my safe and give it a try.
No one there had ever seen a quality Khukuri befor and they liked what they saw and couldn't belive how they performed.:)
As we say down here there's a smile in every pile:D (brass that is);)
 
Half a million rounds? That's probably more ammo than the entire army of some countries use in a year of practice. Heck I'm green with envy. No wonder its called land of the free...

Andrew Limsk
 
mgnew that sounds like awesome fun!!! I'd love to go to one of these shoot out's! I have a Hungarian SA-80(semi auto AK-47) that is a blast to shoot but can't compair to full auto!!
 
Andrew, I've never been able to afford the "care and feeding" of a good full-auto weapon, so the envy is the same. I nearly broke last summer when one of the club members showed up with a new MP5 in .40 S&W. He owns a well-endowed construction company, and was only firing 3-shot bursts (he had only brought 500 rds and didn't want to heat it up too much the first time out). I got to fire three bursts, and cried all the way home.

mgnew, I couldn't make Knob Creek this year, and from the size of the crowd they had, I probably won't be able to walk that far from the parking by next year. The guy I usually go with said he walked over two miles. We used to shoot an early version of practical pistol in the hollow behind (and about 60 ft. below) the clubhouse. Great place, even on a dull weekend.
 
Wal... is that where we competed back in ... aw heck, I don't remember when... '90 I guess?? That was a nice facility... the MG shoot sounds like fun, but I'd just want to shoot instead of watch...

mgnew... I used to be the armorer for a protective detail back in the eighties... I loved those MP5s (K models and A3s). I even fanagled a P7/MP5 armorers course out at the Oberdorf factory. The best week TDY I ever pulled :D.

The ONLY thing I didn't like about the MP5 was the tendency to cook off rounds once it got warm... but what the heck... that's the price you pay for the closed bolt accuracy!

Alan
 
Patrick - Knob Creek is indeed in Kentucky, just south of Louisville off 480. Covered line, concrete bneches and IIRC, over 800 yds. on the longer spots. I had intended to ask - what area are you moving to, and when?

Al - Yep, dat's de place. In a hole behind the clubhouse, down about 60 ft. of sandstone slabs. When paintball started to get popular, the humidity down there was so heavy they'd lose 50 fps three feet out from the muzzle :D Only range I ever shot on where SCUBA gear was optional.
 
Patrick, Knob Crek has the biggest MG shoots in the US. They do it twice a year in April and OCT. Here's the web site if your interested and if you stay overnight book your room at least 3 mounths early.
http://www.machinegunshoot.com/

Ya'll come.
 
Uncle, I can make you a .22 rifle so quiet neither the squirrel or the neighbors would ever hear the shot. You could have your own back yard safari.;). Fresh meat on the table every day. :)
 
Never understood why silencers are illegal anyway:confused:

I mean, killing people is illegal, robbing people is illegal, hunting where you shouldn't be is illegal.....

Why is a quiet gun so bad?:rolleyes:

I guess some folks wouldn't just use them like I would--for target practice and hunting in the backyard:D
 
We had a couple of guys from KY. at the shoot saturday that squirrel hunt with theirs. It's legal to do that in some states. I guess some people watch to much tv and think that killers and outlaws are the only ones that use them.
 
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