[Kadric]

The big downer is the ammo at $900.00 a minute for surplus. If you have chance check out the Knob Creek shoot some time they normally have a couple show up there for the machine gun shoots in Apr and Oct. Whatching the video is a kind of let down after being there and whatching it live. They normally have people there that rent the guns. If your into firearms it is a must see at least once.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.knobcreekshoot.com/images/videos/You%20Never%20Know%20What%20Youll%20See150.wmv

[Boiling point]

I agree. I have been to the Knob creek shoot a couple of times in the eighties. Saw mini-guns being fired first hand. The sound is not to be believed. 6000 rounds per minute of .308 sounds like the loudest, most pissed off chain saw on earth. While talking to the owner, (same gun used in Predator and Terminator 2), he said that the director thought the audience wouldn't believe what it actually sounds like so they recorded It dry firing to get that "whirring" sound, then mixed it with the sound from a more traditional sounding machine gun. He also stated that at 650 continuous pounds of recoil, that if it were not firing blanks, Arnold could have pointed it at the ground and taken off like a rocket!