Shooters Roundup

Our good friend Timmy called Friday night. He was all excited about some gun thing in Morristown on Sunday. Well we rounded up Dave and took a drive to see this gun event. And what an event it was. They had all sorts of guns available to shoot. M16's, AK's, belt-fed behemoths, shotguns, .50-cals, anti-tank, most of the guns from Rambo, and on and on. So we checked things out a little bit and then Timmy stepped up to the plate. I believe he went with an M16 and an AK-47. Nice. While we were standing around watching people shoot shit up, we got to see a pregnant lady shoot two AK's at once. And then she shot one of the belt-fed automatics. I kind of feel bad for the baby. Then Tim and I shot the FAL, a sweet semi-auto rifle. It wasn't too crazy but it was only a $1 a shot. And Dave E. pulled the trigger (literally) on a anti-tank gun from WW2. Sweet stuff. After that, we headed back to the "Police and Military" section. Dave and I got in line for all the cool stuff. We we're a few people back so we had time to decide which of the 15 or 20 guns we wanted to shoot. The simple answer was "all of them," but we weren't rollin' with that much cash. I was torn between a MP5, M16, or one of the belt-fed automatics. Dave was pretty much set on the Browning 1919 belt-fed beast. And after seeing that get shot a few time before it was my turn, I decided on that also. We each only shot 25 rounds, but damn, that was sweet. Then we went for a stroll through the wooded trail to see what was happening because we kept hearing a big gun shooting from that area. And keep in mind this is a 60 acre site we were at. So it was pretty big but small enough where you could hear all kinds of guns shooting off. The wooded trail was mostly shotguns (like guns that fire shots) and different raffle ticket things. But then we saw the .50 cal. Dude. Dave instantly got in line for that. Tim and I stood back about 12 feet and we could still feel it when someone shot it. That was pretty rad. And Dave got to keep the casing. The next stop was the 1800 something gatling gun. Yeah, the one with the crank. We watched one guy shoot it and then no one else stepped up, so I did. The guy gave me the full run down and a welders glove (you know it's good when you get a glove to wear). As you see in the video of me shooting that, you can go through 18 rounds pretty quick for just cranking the thing. Except for the dud that was in there. That slowed me up for a second. I think that's about it. It was a pretty neat deal that we weren't sure if it was going to be cool or not. And actually we weren't too sure about it until we got back in to it. I mean there were people dressed up like Civil War and the Ol' West. And an Indian. Basically it was an America, Fuck Yeah, kind of a day.