Someone at the Weekly Standard wrote about this event a year or so ago. It sounded REALLY cool. If I remember right they let people blast away with everything up to and including .50 cals.

Ace,

(And Dave)

OK.

Not sure what to say.

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It blowed-up real good, though.

Just sayin'

As always, mucho gracias for the link.

Oh, BTW, no, the cars were NOT radio controlled, but driven instead by Gitmo detainees slathered in fake menstrual blood.

That BushHitlerChimpyCheneyStooge-- is there no depths to which his depravity will not sink??

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I got invited to a full-auto shoot at a local gun range. It was too much fun. Every variant of HK MP5 SMGs, AKs, M-16s, Uzis, and even belt-fed machineguns.

If you live in or near Ohio, a huge full-auto shoot is put on at the end of June each year.

http://www.bulletfest.net/

The guy who organizes it, Bob King, is a very cool and friendly guy.

15,235 residents of the Bay Area just fainted.

Knob Creek, Kentucky... the annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Rent anything from a submachine gun to a 40mm grenade launcher or a flamethrower (bring mucho bucks to pay for ammo) and go to town.

Google it up and pencil in yourself some vacation time...

Hloy trigger fixation Batman!! Say it with me, "short, economical bursts"

Still, looks like fun - the gun store in Vegas is also a lot of fun. Heaviest thing that they have is a 5.56 SAW, but they had an old Tommy Gun that was a lot of fun - and I now have a pic of Osama with about 50 .45 ACP holes in it.

Holdfast, is that the place on Tropicana?

I got to shoot an AK47 there recently. It was sweeeet.

There was a full-auto Gun Range / Wilderness Preserve (really!) outside Hot Springs, Arkansas back in the 90s. It was called 'The Farm' and run by a retired Marine gunnery sergeant.

I took my then fiance, now wife, there. He got her a .38 revolver amd a hundred rounds and taught her self-defense while I went out and shot the bejesus out of a variety of weapons. Some of which:

.50 cal automatic - it was mounted and had a butterfly trigger so a six year old girl would have *no* trouble firing that sucker. It was .... satisfying. Though at about $2 a round, iirc, it wasn't cheap.

The silenced Mac10 was fun. He had man-sized metal silhouettes set up in a swampy depression. I put a spray onto the target. I didn't realize that a five foot egret was standing directly behind the target.

So, I squeezed the trigger, the weapon went 'braaaappppppp' and I hit the target. Just as I was forming the concept 'this shit is great' in my mind a fucking FIVE FOOT EGRET unfolds its wings and starts to take flight.

We were the only ones at the place at that time. The Gunny was great- took time out, showed my wife proper weapon handling, answered questions, and really did a nice job making her comfortable with her first gun experience.

Unfortunately, Michael Moore profiled the place on his old show 'TV Nation' . They did a complete hatchet job on the guy.

Any way, we live in a country where small girls can fire .50 caliber automatic weapons, if the weapon is properly mounted. Give 'em tracers and the kids can walk the fire onto target.

The terrorists cannot win.

This will have the pacifist pansies whinning they would rather have her sitting in a tree to stop it from being cut down

So what happened to the egret?

What was the gun in the third or 4th clip? Really fast and nearly silent, it sounded almost like a helicopter in the distance.

At our Mandatory Army Fun days (Army birthday celebration each year), they'd have a range for the kiddies to shoot the .50 cals. It was a popular activity, with the soldier/parents looking like they were getting as big a kick out of it as their kids.

Yeah, Scott, I was wondering about that too. The stuff in its path looked like it had been weed-eatered.

And the big explosions - looked like patterned mortar fire. Was that what it was?

Oh, my God!
I was skeptical when I finally clicked on this thing. Then I saw a 6 year old burn through a $500 worth of ammo in 30 seconds. Laugh out loud. I was rolling on the floor when the first full field fire was opened, I would love to see something like that in an action movie, what real bullets look like.

Ok, my earlier comments about flyover country, rest assured, no commie wusses will be putting you guys down.

As for my other comment about the real meaning of being an American is that if you fuck with us, you will die, is repeated. Sort of makes those Iraqi Spec. Rep. Guard videos look like Sundayschool.

What was the little girl shooting? A .50 caliber?

she started out with a .50 cal, then moved to relatively smaller machine guns. I think at one point, someone is using a chaingun, that's where you hear the "ziper sound" and you see a continuous impact line downrange.

What was the gun in the third or 4th clip? Really fast and nearly silent, it sounded almost like a helicopter in the distance.

It sounded a lot like a Vulcan which was a military anti-aircraft weapon in the 80's. It was chain-driven and fired electrically. It had a rate of fire of about a gazillion rounds a minute. The gun you see mounted under the nose of Cobra helicopters was a version of the Vulcan.

It sounded a lot like a Vulcan

Thanks Steve, I just looked it up and I think you are right, 6000 rounds per minute. I shopped for some ammo and it looks like it costs about $5 per round. Could that be right? That's $30,000 a minute!

No one's putting a burqa on that little girl!

I liked the guy with the two full auto 1911's. That was freakin great.

That brought a tear to my eye. Makes you pround to be a American, it does.

The explosions that produced a white cloud of smoke were most likely tannerite. It's mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum and can only be set off by impact of a bullet. It can not be set off with det cord, electrical impulses, or heat. Currently not regulated, but considering how much fun it is, it's only a matter of time before it is. Each of the five large explosions near the end of the clip were probably produced by a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff being impacted by a bullet from a rifle.

The two pistols were glock 18's. The zipper sound was likely a .30 cal (7.62x51mm) minigun not a 20mm vulcan cannon. I think it puts out at around 4000 rnds/min. You can buy surplus 7.62 for under $0.15 a round, so you can do the math.

Yeah, I think the vulcan is way to big for even these guys. The 30mm is a tank buster. Think, Black Hawk Down size rotary guns (here-small), compare those to the thing on the A-10, or AC-130 (not here, mf-big)

It's good to be the guys who are selfless, virtuous and right so much of the time. Things like this remind me that this is also the F-ing coolest nation ever.

6 year olds hammering junk with .50's just for the fun of it! Where else can you get that?

God, I love my country.