WOW…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

Lucky Gunner was nice enough to host some bloggers and others at a Memorial Day Weekend shoot today; and a rather strange day it was…


Yes, that IS a Civil War Re-enactor taking a break from shooting the cannon in the back ground and now shooting an AR-10…

Bloggers- Check, check, etc… Whole bunches of good folks showed up!

WWII Re-enactors (US and German with bivouacs set up)- Check

Civil War Cannons- Check
German PAC 38 Cannon- Check

Tanks (with MG and Cannon)- Check
Half Tracks (with multiple MG)- Check
Full Auto SMG- Check, check, check…

Full Auto MG- Check, check , check, well you get the idea…

1938 BAR, 1919 Browning MG, Water Cooled .30 MG, Lewis MG, Ma Deuce (WWII version), etc…
Personal weapons- Check (everywhere)

Huey- Check (with Sheriff’s SWAT team aboard)

They’re coming to take us… oh, you want to SHOOT what we brought? Sure!!! 🙂

Free ammo- CHECK!!! 🙂 Thank you Lucky Gunner!!!
Sadly, the 1938 BAR actually ran out of 30-06 ammo at the end of the day

I am NOT exaggerating, the firing line was at LEAST 100 yards wide…
I would estimate 150 total folks there, and EVERYBODY including the kids were shooting anything and everything! And not a single gun turned bad and shot anybody…

We also honored two Wounded Warriors; one a Chaplin with a CIB (only the second one I’ve ever seen wearing one; he was prior enlisted), and the other a young troop who was a Blackhawk crew chief and shot in Afghanistan a month or so ago and now in rehab. They got head of the line privileges on anything they wanted to shoot (and did)!

All the tables had donation jars (which filled up quickly) for Wounded Warriors, and I personally cannot think of a much better way to honor them.

Traction Control has a few comments up from folks as he was blogging from the site (I was otherwise occupied… 🙂

I’ll get some videos up later in the week.

Oh yeah, and one ‘side’ comment- I asked one of the SWAT guys if they would ever hit one of the houses of the owners of some of the weapons being shot. He kinda cocked his head and said, “Um.. Nah, airstrike…”

Comments

WOW… — 18 Comments

  2. Wish I was there. Not being a spoil sport. Lots of hay bails around. DO NOT use hay bails for back stops and then feed to live stock. Cattle will ingest spent rounds and will die of lead poisoning. Should anyone doubt this, contact me and I will give you a specific case (my sister is an insurance adjuster).

  3. LL- You would fit in nicely 🙂

    WSF- They are being used for a firing line, so far NO rounds have been fired into them that I’m aware of 🙂

  4. WOW is right.. looks like you had a great time. The first pic of the civil war reenacter with the AR-10 is quite the jusxtaposition 🙂

  5. I heard back from Dave L, who you met up with. Sounds like a seriously good time. when you hae a gathering and friendly tanks show up it can only get better.

  7. Pissed- Yep 🙂

    Brigid- You would have had a ball, and Dave is good folks!

    Julie- You would have gone nuts 🙂 Full auto, cannon, anything you can imagine wanting to shoot was here…

  8. It was truly a grand time, seeing old friends, meeting new ones, and turning mass quantities of ammunition into smoke and noise. 🙂

    I’ve really got to hand it to the folks from LuckyGunner; they kept a lot of balls in the air at once and made it look smooth.

  9. Sounds like a good time was had by all.

    “one a Chaplin with a CIB (only the second one I’ve ever seen wearing one; he was prior enlisted)”

    I had a chaplain at Riley who wore a CIB, along with a Special Forces tab and a Ranger tab. He also had been prior enlisted.

  14. Thanks for giving a fellow squid a ride and storage space! Got back to find my intertubes dead. Phone and cable too. Just got it back!

    Hope to see you next year!

  16. I love that photo of a Civil War soldier shooting an AR-10.

    It was a pleasure to meet you, Old NFO. I hope we all get a chance to shoot together in the future.