Trigger Happy

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 | MARK YOST

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WEST POINT, Ky.--A casualty list from the Knob Creek Gun Range, which hosted one of the country's largest machine-gun shoots this past weekend, would look something like this: Two dozen old appliances. A dozen junked cars. Tens of thousands of rounds of spent ammunition. Zero people.

[TexasCowboy]

Do y'all know where I can get a list of places in Texas which allows full auto shooting?
I'm seriously trying to buy a belt fed .30 or .50 caliber full auto.
I also need to know places that have 500 to 1000 yard firing ranges for the .50 caliber Barrett.

Thanks!

[Prof Engineer]

ping

[RikaStrom]

Wooo Hoo! Now that looks like fun!

[Shooter 2.5]

A golf course is a waste of a good gun range.

Or something like that.

[Oorang]

When is the next shoot? How do I sign up? I want to go!

[Oorang]

Or something like that

LOL! The way you said it works just fine

[Shooter 2.5]

I'll have to ask the guys who sell the full autos at the Market Hall Gunshow. I think they might be able to set me up with some ranges. The downside is anyone who can afford something like that probably has their own land.

[Argh]

as a homeschool teacher you'd think I could proofread

I may be a filthy disgusting atheist or agnostic or whatever but I think it's time I did some serious praying for your son...

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The next Knob Creek shoot will be in Spring 1994, April 09/10/11, though there are other somewhat lesser affairs [and some better suited to those with specialized weaponry interests] but you'll find details on the next Knob Creek Range shoot here:

There's also a videotap offering that'll give you some idea of what a weekend there is like here: *I*, *II*, *III*, and *IV*

Knob Creek Range

Knob Creek Shoot video

Knob Creek vacation pics:

gallery I

gallery II

gallery III

[archy]

Cool!
Sign me up for the next one.

There's no *signup* needed unless you'd care to enter one of the compeyition matches, not all of which are conducted with the buzzguns. But if you are so inclined, right here you go.

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[TexasCowboy]

"anyone who can afford something like that probably has their own land."

Well, I was going to sell my house in order to buy one so I won't have any land to shoot on.

Seriously, please check some prices for me when you go.

Thanks, Shooter!

[TexasCowboy]

"A golf course is a waste of a good gun range. "

I think it would be interesting to combine the two.

That would give new meaning to a golfer's concentration.

[archy]

Do y'all know where I can get a list of places in Texas which allows full auto shooting?

I'm seriously trying to buy a belt fed .30 or .50 caliber full auto.

There's a good ol' boy Texas MG dealer named Keith that's pretty heavily into the MAC 10 and .30 Brownings, and he should have a few ideas on ranges in your neck of the woods, too. Check out his website here, and drop Keith an e-mail for a list of the TX ranges he knows of. He's also been known to put on his own mini-shoots in Texas.

There's also a Texas dealer who sometimes has a .30 or two in stock with a website *here*. Link to his .30Browning MG and .50 Browning MG offerings at the links- his inventory changes frequently, of course.

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[Argh]

I doubt shooting is in the immediate future

You have my sympathy...

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Of course, what I really want is that quad-mounted .50!

There's an M55 mount I know of available for around ten grand, if it wasn't snapped up at this last KC shootemup fest. Add on 4 Browning .50s [or a pair of 20mm cannons like the Israelis do, or a 7,62 minigun or two like Mike Dillon of Dillon Reloading (ever wonder why he got into making machinery for reloading ammo for mass consumption? Now you know)] or high rate of fire M85 .50 calibers, and you'll be all set.

A pal of mine in Texas has got one, just the thing for use behind an Army *Mule* ATV.

[archy]

A golf course is a waste of a good gun range. "

I think it would be interesting to combine the two.

That would give new meaning to a golfer's concentration.

just as a small personal observation, I understand some of the foreigh mortars just a bit smaller than the American M19 60mm can be turned into very credible golfball launchers, some with a range in excess of 400 meters, offering an interesting possibility for the long fairways.

Hmmm, no wind...caddy, get the model 50-PM-40 out of the cart. Charge four....

[TexasCowboy]

Hey, arch!
That's a good Web site!

I was disappointed that most of what he has is sold, but I'll keep checking back on his inventory.

I went ahead and joined "Gun Girls" while I was there.
"...exciting defenders of the Second Amendment...."
LOL!

[TexasCowboy]

"There's an M55 mount I know of available for around ten grand,"

That's the tops of what I can spend, archy.
I figure if I work two jobs for the next fifty years, I can pay for what I buy.
A mount wouldn't do me a lot of good without the guns, though.

Hummm....maybe I can work three jobs!
Yeah, sleep is a waste of time, anyway.

[TexasCowboy]

"offering an interesting possibility for the long fairways."

I might be able to make a birdie on a par five with one of those.
Heck, if I could get a par I'd be happy!

I think the biggest test of concentration would be trying to sink a twenty foot putt with incoming flying over your head.

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"There's an M55 mount I know of available for around ten grand,"

That's the tops of what I can spend, archy. I figure if I work two jobs for the next fifty years, I can pay for what I buy. A mount wouldn't do me a lot of good without the guns, though.

Hummm....maybe I can work three jobs!
Yeah, sleep is a waste of time, anyway.

Sleep? Oh yeah the state I've visited for 5 hours in the last three days. Yeah, I remember what sleep was!

If you're on a 10 K budget, you might want to stick with magazine-fed toys, it can be hell having a hungry belt-fed weapon with nothing to feed it. But a lot of .30 shooters are running guns set up to use 8mm German ammo, now available pretty cheap at around .04/round or so, better than the dime-plus for 7,62 or .30-06 M2 ball.

Or you might consider getting into one of the belt-fed Browning .30 semiautos, which start off in the $1000-$1500 range- if nothing else, they make a good starting place for learning the Browning innards and they can be teamed with a full-auto gun on a twin-gun mount. The barrels, feed components and topcover of the semis remain unchanged and are still usable as spares in a full-auto gun. And the 8mm conversions ought to work in either.

And there is another possible way into the full-auto .50 world besides the Browning guns...might be cheaper in the long run, might not be.

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