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FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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wascaptain said:
here is my truck carry in .9mm
its held up by a strong magnic
i put a beenie over it so it isnt seen
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We can carry loaded rifles in our vehicles in my county. My truck gun is a bullpup AK-47, it sits on the seat next to me or in between my wife and I if she's riding with. Not super accurate with the AK round but 40 rounds of 7.62 should get me out of most problems :hump: . I use those really strong rare earth magnets to stash pistols too. No kids ever in the house and very few visitors so stashing isn't a security issue for me.
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BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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FirstCavApache64 said:
Got to shoot a .50 BMG the other day with armor piercing incindiery rounds. 6 bucks a round but they were going through a steel I beam like butter. I prefer my .338 Lapua to his .50 BMG after shooting it for half a day. My ears were ringing for days even with plugs and ear muffs on. Lotta fun though.
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Were those Raufoss rounds? Knob Creek (KY) machine gun shoot was a yearly event that they held for 50 years and discontinued a couple of years ago. I just read about one, Big Sandy MG shoot in AZ. KY was close to me but AZ a little too far away. Couldn't ever afford to buy an older Thompson SMG or a BAR but you can fire them. Easy way to spend LOTS of money, LOL.

Big Sandy Shoot – Largest Machine-Gun Shoot In The World

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FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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DCcan said:
Never seen a bullpup AK, nice!
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Thanks, Its a really cheap rifle I picked up at a gun show and had my gunsmith go through to take up some of the slack in the machined parts and do his magic. Think I paid 250 for it new many years ago. Back when they had SKS rifles for like 75 bucks in a big wooden barrel by the door lol. Talk about getting hot, the front handguard will toast your fingers if you burn a mag really quickly. I like the idea of a long gun but didn't want to put a nice, expensive AR under the seat and scratch the hell out of it.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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BarnBuster said:
Were those Raufoss rounds? Knob Creek (KY) machine gun shoot was a yearly event that they held for 50 years and discontinued a couple of years ago. I just read about one, Big Sandy MG shoot in AZ. KY was close to me but AZ a little too far away. Couldn't ever afford to buy an older Thompson SMG or a BAR but you can fire them. Easy way to spend LOTS of money, LOL. I've seen the old Knob Creek videos of their shoots and they did some crazy stuff out there. Blowing up cars, and every year it got bigger and crazier. I'm weird in that I don't like big shoots like that as I've seen some really sloppy gun handling by people there.

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These were surplus API rounds he got from a buddy. We were shooting 1/4" steel I beams and it went completely through both channels of steel.
My problem with automatic weapons now is the ammo cost just to have a fun shoot. I used to take people out shooting but at 15-20 bucks a magazine it gets really expensive when you're just burning mags every 10 seconds. A BAR would be at the top of my list if I hit the lottery lol.
The quad mini gun reminds me of the quad .50s that they had in Korea when my Dad was in the war. They were mounted on half tracks and worked great on Pork Chop Hill as the Chinese and N. Koreans would charge the hill in mass wave attacks. Dad was a .30 cal machine gunner when he was there.
 
BarnBuster

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DCcan said:
US Naval Gatling gun, .30 cal long instead of 45-70, and a harpoon gun I saw today. :D

They had a wall of whaling implements also.

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FWIW, the brass shoulder fired harpoon or darting gun is a Model 1882 Ebenezer Pierce and Selmar Eggers Harpoon Gun sold by Pierce's nephew Frank E. Brown firing a 8 gauge explosive bomb lance and weighing about 23 lbs. The lance had flip out fins for stabilization. Shoulder fired weapons were relatively short lived as the accuracy was compromised by the trailing line. Most vessels transitioned to deck mounted harpoon cannons (introduced in Norway about 1870) in late 19th century. The shoulder fired weapons still command premium auction prices @$10-12k
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BarnBuster

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"I worked fast, knowing if I did there was a good chance we could stop at Valley Hardware. That place was my Valhalla and Mr. Fairchild, the man who ran the gun department, was just as surely its Odin. He was also famous, for it was none other than Mr. Fairchild who gave the weekly hunting and fishing report on the town’s radio station. It made me feel pretty special to be his advisor, best friend, and generally favorite person in the whole entire world."

 
buckaclark

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BarnBuster said:
"I worked fast, knowing if I did there was a good chance we could stop at Valley Hardware. That place was my Valhalla and Mr. Fairchild, the man who ran the gun department, was just as surely its Odin. He was also famous, for it was none other than Mr. Fairchild who gave the weekly hunting and fishing report on the town’s radio station. It made me feel pretty special to be his advisor, best friend, and generally favorite person in the whole entire world."
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In the movie Stars in the sky,there is a story by an old outdoorsman .He was hunting on public land and had walked about as far in as he could and taken a seat.A father with two sons comes walking in on the same trail.They stop and chat a minute and then politely ask if they can pass.He says "There we were,three generations of outdoorsman on a chance meeting in the field". " I said certainly, they continued down the trail ,I wept".
 
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