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Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 4 months ago to News
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That sounds worth a trip to me.


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  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 4 months ago
    There is a similar facility outside of Las Vegas at which you can also get a burger - after you've washed the lead dust off your hands, of course. I think it's called "Bullets and Burgers". I wanted to go when we were in Vegas, but I was overloaded.

    We also have [as I would hope many states do] something called a ".50 cal shoot". Shooters pay a nominal fee to get in, and gun owners "bring what they got". You walk down the line, and the gun owner tells you how much it will cost to shoot the gun [he's providing ammo, of course]. I paid $50 for a friend [I think she was about 16 at the time] to shoot a 40mm piece of ordnance - that's 1 shot. We all loved it - including the Army infantry guys who were in line behind us. They said "We just maintain them, we never get to shoot them."

    You can run though a LOT of money in a VERY short time this way, especially when a "mad minute" is declared. That means everybody fires everything for a minute, mostly at a couple of cars that are downrange.
    That nice British guy would have been speechless.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I seem to remember Arnold using something similar (a 20mm nose gun off an Apache or similar). But then, that's Arnold.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Haven't seen one of those up close since the 80s. Impressive weapon in all its variants.

    Not exactly man portable however LOL

    Most weapons that are man portable don't get much above 1000rpm or so cyclic rate of fire. And even at that rate, short bursts to save the barrel. :)
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  • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 4 months ago
    My local range rents submachine guns for use at the range.

    They are a lot of fun to shoot if you know what you are doing, but novices need instruction and oversight.

    Expensive outing when you do it though. You burn through ammo like there is no tomorrow.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 4 months ago
    "evidence of an out of control gun culture" Sheesh, what crabs.
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