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Cheers to the 2nd Ammendment!
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Massachusetts, where I grew up, had machine gun shoots every year, open to the public. It was a blast. Machine guns are some of the most fun ways to blow money REALLY fast. As for the video, I've heard of them before. That's some SERIOUS money there. Class III firearms are very high-dollar items. Especially the larger ones there, like the M2 and such.
If you have never shot full-auto and a machine gun shoot comes near you, GO! It's worth the money. I personally got a chance to shoot an MP-5, BAR, and M-60 (I've shot M-249 and M-240G with the Marines).
If you have never shot full-auto and a machine gun shoot comes near you, GO! It's worth the money. I personally got a chance to shoot an MP-5, BAR, and M-60 (I've shot M-249 and M-240G with the Marines).
MP-5? BAR?? Heck !!! I got to shoot one of these !!!
A 40mm Bofors quad, mount #42 (if memory serves me), on USS Casa Grande (LSD-13) in the Med, 1st Class Cruise. We were an all-midshipman crew, with the exception of two petty officers -- one of them the gun captain -- the "phone-talker" in the pix. I was the gun trainer --- position of the sailor holding onto the rail in the foreground --- but I sat in the seat (the nearest one -- empty in this photo) and we did it the "old fashioned" way -- in local control (manual) instead of director control -- i.e., no "power steering". By the way, for those of you not lucky enough to have had an opportunity like this, the "trainer" (right control posit) rotates the mount in azimuth and the "pointer" (left control) handles the elevation angle of the barrels and had the firing "key" on his foot pedal.
We did it so well, in fact, that we screwed up (?) and "shot down" the towed sleeve --- shot it right off the tow cable. Now, who could know that actually shooting DOWN the sleeve was NOT the object of the exercise ??? Needless to say, the T.G. Commander and the Casa Grande's C.O. were NOT HAPPY with the results of their Middie anti-aircraft gunners' participation in the exercise. But they sure couldn't complain about our score .....
A 40mm Bofors quad, mount #42 (if memory serves me), on USS Casa Grande (LSD-13) in the Med, 1st Class Cruise. We were an all-midshipman crew, with the exception of two petty officers -- one of them the gun captain -- the "phone-talker" in the pix. I was the gun trainer --- position of the sailor holding onto the rail in the foreground --- but I sat in the seat (the nearest one -- empty in this photo) and we did it the "old fashioned" way -- in local control (manual) instead of director control -- i.e., no "power steering". By the way, for those of you not lucky enough to have had an opportunity like this, the "trainer" (right control posit) rotates the mount in azimuth and the "pointer" (left control) handles the elevation angle of the barrels and had the firing "key" on his foot pedal.
We did it so well, in fact, that we screwed up (?) and "shot down" the towed sleeve --- shot it right off the tow cable. Now, who could know that actually shooting DOWN the sleeve was NOT the object of the exercise ??? Needless to say, the T.G. Commander and the Casa Grande's C.O. were NOT HAPPY with the results of their Middie anti-aircraft gunners' participation in the exercise. But they sure couldn't complain about our score .....
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