Actual Weapons Firing Experience?

[TheOverlord]

I have had the pleasure of firing a fair range of firearms. I own a few from the following list as well [8D]

I have fired:
.22 rifle and pistols
.380 pistol
.45 model 1911 (beautiful pistol! Gotta get me one!)[:D]
.270 hunting rifle with magnum hunting rounds (kicked like a horse...)
12 guage shotgun
mini 14
.40 S&W glock
semi auto AK-47 knock off
SKS
semi auto G3 with sniper scope (awesome)[:D]
S&W .357 Magnum
S&W 38 Special
S&W .44 Magnum
9mm glock
M1 Garand (another beauty)
A variety of other 9mm pistols...cant remember them all...

[byoung]

For myself,
Type 51 (Chinese Mosin-Nagant copy)
Hakim (UAR production of Swedish (?) design)
Martini-Henry (they do get quite hot, so belive the story about them glowing at Rourke's Drift...)
misc. 22s & small shotguns

Nothing too fast or large, though the 51 will beat up your shoulder after 5 rounds or so... 7.62 Russian & a metal butt-plate will do that...

Wish list:

BAR
Any Soviet SMG with drum clip


Bruce "Lock, load & unload" Young

[Voriax]

ORIGINAL: byoung


Hakim (UAR production of Swedish (?) design)

Ljungman model 42

Voriax

[Riun T]

Hey Gunny hearin from me again bud,there's a place in vagas that a buddy who owns a carnival equiping business here went down to and could shoot what he said EVERYTHING from MAC10's to .223 or .308 cal.miniguns if u had the cash I'm sure u could find the ranch on the net. start snoopin and savin bud. later RT
should have added he shot a thompson with stick mags costing $8 bucks am. and drum $25.he also poped a mag of DRAGNOV (love that gun) 5rounds BARRETT .50 bunch of 1911 colt.45. all in all he said and showed me his 400$ US. day at the range

[Riun T]

Hey Major,Just give the stalk a light ream and fine sand don't rinse the filings off and imerse it in a flat tin tray that you've preped with a bunson burner to keep Linseed oil at just under boiling,emerse the stalk in it with a bent coathanger,blow the burner out and remove in the morning and whipe with chammi or cotton rags til dry to touch.
Rescipy from old Saskatchewan Trapper/Gunsmith/Blackpowder enthusiest/guide I used to run a B.C. riding hunting camp in prince george with him.

[Kevin E. Duguay]

and a cute AR15? 22cal survival weapon.

AR-7? Did all parts fit inside the butt of the rifle when it was taken appart? Then its a AR-7.

[chief]

Kevin you are absolutely correct young man, senility crept in.

Chief

[Gallo Rojo]

Does a "molotov cocktail" count? [&:]

[mongo]

KG..

Have you checked with local gun/sport/shooting clubs?

Many of them that I know of in several states have "open" days where people (usually looking to join) can come by and use the facilities. One can generally find one of the members who has what you are looking for. They would probably let you squeeze off a few rounds.

I know there is a huge resurgence in the old weapons the last couple of years since the CMP started selling the Garands and Carbines again.

[Belisarius]

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

Does a "molotov cocktail" count? [&:]

What, have you been in a riot? [:'(]

[Gallo Rojo]

ORIGINAL: Belisarius

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

Does a "molotov cocktail" count? [&:]

What, have you been in a riot? [:'(]

I'm from Argentina... so what do you think? [;)]

[Fidel_Helms]

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

I'm from Argentina... so what do you think? [;)]

Ahhh...reminds me of Quito. I love the smell of teargas in the morning...[:D]

[Gallo Rojo]

ORIGINAL: Fidel_Helms
Ahhh...reminds me of Quito.

Quito? he he ... I'll tell you about my travell to Bogotá (Colombia) some day [:D]

ORIGINAL: Fidel_Helms
I love the smell of teargas in the morning...[:D]

The memories of teargas in the morning always makes me cry. I'm a sentimental I guess [;)]

[Belisarius]

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

ORIGINAL: Belisarius

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

Does a "molotov cocktail" count? [&:]

What, have you been in a riot? [:'(]

I'm from Argentina... so what do you think? [;)]

Ah. Touché.

[Fidel_Helms]

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

Quito? he he ... I'll tell you about my travell to Bogotá (Colombia) some day [:D]

I'll raise you. I went to guerilla infested southern Colombia. Not only that, but I went hiking in the backcountry. There's a city in the area(I didn't go) called Puerto Asís. Things there are so bad the locals call it Muerto Asís.

[Belisarius]

ORIGINAL: Fidel_Helms

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

Quito? he he ... I'll tell you about my travell to Bogotá (Colombia) some day [:D]

I'll raise you. I went to guerilla infested southern Colombia. Not only that, but I went hiking in the backcountry. There's a city in the area(I didn't go) called Puerto Asís. Things there are so bad the locals call it Muerto Asís.

Gallow's humor. Gotta lovet it. [:D]

[KG Erwin]

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo

Quito? he he ... I'll tell you about my travell to Bogotá (Colombia) some day [:D]

Gallo, did you mean "travel" or "travail" ? Can you give us the short story version, or will we have to wait for the book? [;)]

[Gallo Rojo]

ORIGINAL: KG Erwin
Gallo, did you mean "travel" or "travail" ? Can you give us the short story version, or will we have to wait for the book? [;)]

I mean travel [:D]


Ok… here’s the story:

Some years ago I was working for a HHRR NGO. They sent me to a conference in Bogotá (Colombia).

The second day, the people who were organizing the conferences invited a group of us to a nearby restaurant to talk about of a series of workshops that were to take place the next day.

I was going to the restaurant in the same van with one Colombian man and one woman and one Argentine friend and another person. While we were going to the restaurant the Colombian guy’s cell phone rang. He answered, and he said: “Alo? … hijos puta! (Hello? … sons of a b!tch!)… Then he turned to the Colombian woman and said: “se lo han cepillado a José Luis!” (they have killed José Luis). What had happened was that the paramilitary had killed a union leader who was close to the HHRR movement.

So we arrive to the restaurant (the Colombian man and woman that were traveling with me didn’t stay). The rest of us (mainly foreigners guests and two Colombians from the organizing group) had dinner and begun to talk about the next day’s workshops.
At one point, the two persons from the group that was organizing the conferences went apart and begun to talk on their cell phones (we thought that it was something related to the union leader murder).
Then they came back and said that the hotel’s manager had called and told them that they the hotel had received an anonymous bomb threaten. The anonymous caller had said that if we continued the conference the next day they were to blow-up the hotel.

So we discussed what to do and we concluded that we were to continue the conference (when the paramilitary murders some one they usually makes some bomb threatens to force the police to “disperse” and then they can run; that was what our Colombian host told us). Then we come out from the back door of the restaurant and returned to the hotel in cars – we had come in vans. Why we changed vans for cars and came out from the back doors? Well, next day one of the organizer told us: the anonymous caller not only had threatened with a bomb to the hotel. He also had told the hotel manager that a group us had went out of the hotel. He gave a list with our names, how we were dressed, the brand and plates numbers of the vans in which we were moving, and the name and address of restaurant were we where. Our Colombian host didn’t tell us that to don’t scare us.

If I had knew that I had wet my pants. [:D]

The bomb threaten was only a threaten.

That’s my story.

[Gallo Rojo]

deleted: I double posted

[Gallo Rojo]

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo
Does a "molotov cocktail" count? [&:]

ORIGINAL: Belisarius
What, have you been in a riot? [:'(]

ORIGINAL: Gallo Rojo
I'm from Argentina... so what do you think? [;)]

ORIGINAL: Belisarius
Ah. Touché.

[:)]

I never actually shouted a Molotov cocktail. I was kidding. [:)]
I fired a Mauser K98 a couple of times (my dad has one), and shot-guns (I liked to hunt hares when I was younger).


But yes, I have been in a riot – it begun as pacific march until the government decided to suppress it; then it evolved in a series of riots among the city and the government fell. And yes, I have smelled tear-gas but not from to close (I run when the real troubles begun, I’m kind of coward [;)]).