Ahem... The Knob Creek machine gun shoot is in Kentucky! :) I wish I'd known you were going to be there; the one last spring is the first one I've missed in a couple of years. They'll have another one in the fall, you know. Might work for a big FReeper-shooter meeting, eh?
I hesitate to say this about our recent shoot, but for me at least, there's just something different about paper targets. I've taken more than a few deer in my life, at various ranges, and it took more than one shot only once, and that was because of a hidden hog wire fence I didn't see until after it deflected the first shot. Somehow, I just can't seem to get interested in paper targets.
'Course, as Lion Den Dan kept shooting those bulls I got more interested - but it was too late!
oooooh, I hate it when I do that. Sorry Kentucky. It was a 500 mile drive from where I live, you'd think I'd know what state I was in.
That was my first time there, what a blast! I shot a BAR and a pedastel mounted 1919-A1. It was raining, mud six inches deep, and there was a line of 50 people waiting to pay $25-$50 for ten seconds on full-auto - and every one of them had the biggest sh!t-eating grin after they shot. I think Knob-Creek would be a GREAT freeper event.
I like shooting steel, DING! At Knob Creek I picked up an inch thick 10"x10" swinging target that can take hits from a high-power rifle. It must weigh 40 lbs. An 8mm digs a little deeper hole than 30-06, about 1/4 inch, a 7.62x39 only about 1/8". I expect after a few hundred rounds I'll punch clean thru it.
Where logos is concerned, there is somehting different. I have hunted squirrels with him. He can acquire a squirrel with the naked eye that I can't find with a scope. When he sees it, it is dead.
Logos, you are one heck of a game shot.
Dan