Guns, Love Em or Leave Em

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:31 pm

thanks can you show a video of the stance? appreciate it.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:33 pm

I heard back from the guy.

He really doesn't know anything about this area at all.

Referred him to rangemaster.

We'll see if our training ideas mesh, and check out his insanity level.

I've been invited to train with groups in the past that were way over the top, or just too rural or hunting oriented for my taste.

I won't have time to do anything soon, but when I'm finished with the move, we'll see.

I'm in Memphis, so arkansas and mississippi are easy options.
Anywhere else would be an expedition.

Where we have been practicing, a hundred feet from a friend's porch, the free fire zone is only one direction.
Backstops for rifles in all directions will be even more difficult as the area builds up.

I understand some of the high end training facilities are available, but out of my price range.
Seal team six and others do train in this area.

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:34 pm

Tried out the AR-15 iron this afternoon...

Finally! Something to do with all these blank rounds. My supply sargent gave me 2,500 rounds in 1992.
This thing was launching them 200-250 meters! What surprised me was how accurate it is. I was nailing trees at 50-75m, nice hollow thunk sound. I ended up giving a reprieve to the billiard golf balls. Gonna make some gifties & geegaws outta them instead.
The ball launcher muzzle attachment was around $20 from Amazon. Looks like a shorty suppressor, no?
Rifle & grenade launcher sold separately.

For those who are interested, The base rifle is a pre-ban, pre-Remington Bushmaster XM-15F2S heavy barrel (they are NOT shitting about the heavy part!) circa 1993. $390. I was a gunsmith and dealer at the time. Good deals...
The grenade launcher is a DPW 37mm smoothbore. It was around $115 in 1998.
37mm rounds range in price from $10 to $50 each depending what flavor they are. No explosive or anti-personnel rounds, just flare, smoke, ag rounds (bird bangers), whistlers, tear gas(?!?), and pyrotechnic. WTF would civilians possibly ever need gas rounds for? (Wackassed militia nutso's!)
A 40mm rifled launcher is $2-3,000 + ATF Form 4 + fingerprints + photo + $200 tax stamp.
Rounds for the 40 range from $20/ea for practice chalk dust marking rounds up th $7-800/ea for HE / HEDP rounds.
I'm saving money each time I fire the 37mm. Hell, can't afford not to shoot it

.

I'm getting two more for the other AR's and bringing them to Juplaya next year. Get a threesome together and hit the links in the 1st Annual Guns In The Sun Invitational or maybe The Black Rock Open...
Firing balls up here is a one shot deal. They're lost in the forest forever.
On the playa they should be quite easy to find.
Yay guns!

Ff

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:41 pm

being in england sucks.

I wamt to play with guns. its been such a long time since i shot anything. As soon as i get out there i am phoning the guy i know who owns old west guns and going to arrange something if i can Dammit failing that im going to cry till someone takes pity on me and starts the apocolypse and i can stay over there killing shit

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:29 pm

dang Ff, you kept that hidden away. Another excuse to visit the "Armory At The End Of The Road"

(good thing BBsue isn't here, there would be a wet spot)

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:47 pm

Oh man, I wish I had a way to bring and temporarily store a bunch of our guns off playa. I'd really like to give you the full on Second Amendment experience you long for. Maybe I'll look into bringing some and going into Reno to secure them with a firearms dealer. Depending on what your schedule is, perhaps you could hop in my truck and we'll book on down to Reno or Vegas and hit an indoor gun range. Not sure what my time constraints will be, but if it's possible It would be my pleasure to finance said walk in a weapons wonderland.
Wouldn't that be the coolest endcap to the burn?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:52 pm

Foxfur wrote:Oh man, I wish I had a way to bring and temporarily store a bunch of our guns off playa. I'd really like to give you the full on Second Amendment experience you long for. Maybe I'll look into bringing some and going into Reno to secure them with a firearms dealer. Depending on what your schedule is, perhaps you could hop in my truck and we'll book on down to Reno or Vegas and hit an indoor gun range. Not sure what my time constraints will be, but if it's possible It would be my pleasure to finance said walk in a weapons wonderland.
Wouldn't that be the coolest endcap to the burn?

*shuddering*

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:58 pm

People used to shoot bowling balls out there w/ black powder. Saw a cannon in a local gun shop fabbed from a Caterpillar hydraulic cylinder.

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:00 pm

shot an anvil into the sky last year 'pre-burn' about 1 pound of powder / 100 pound anvil

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:02 pm

EspressoDude wrote:dang Ff, you kept that hidden away. Another excuse to visit the "Armory At The End Of The Road"

(good thing BBsue isn't here, there would be a wet spot)

I can't believe I didn't grab it for you to dig. Next time for sure.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:00 am

http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/S ... spx?rss=59

MEMPHIS, TN - A man who woke up to find his home being burglarized chased the intruder away with his sword.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:10 am

Rifles red from firing over.

The backwash from your partner's suppressor in your face.

The reverberation of rifle fire off the storefronts.

Being unable to keep count of rapid fire rounds.

The burn still left on your hand through the guard.

Putting children's toys away and bringing out the big gun.

We noticed no one even bothers firing a pistol in that neighborhood anymore, on new year's and fourth of july.
They started getting real fireworks... or a rifle.
Pretty good displays now.

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:51 pm

Foxfur wrote:
EspressoDude wrote:dang Ff, you kept that hidden away. Another excuse to visit the "Armory At The End Of The Road"

(good thing BBsue isn't here, there would be a wet spot)
I can't believe I didn't grab it for you to dig. Next time for sure.

My oversight has been corrected.
Espressodude & Helga came over the river and through the woods to play today.
Best. Playmates. Ever.

Espressodude. He puts the ROCK in rock pit. Any questions?

FOGLAMP. The back wall is 210 yards from the end of the muzzle. Potato quality control problems today. Only one survived intact to make it entirely downrange. Helga fired that one

. Sometimes gentlemen, it takes a woman's touch. DO NOT underestimate Helga. You do so at your own risk...

^Easily amused.

Espressodude picked today to come out. Good choice. The pit is going into production tomorrow and the heavy equipment operators get surly when people shoot at em. Can't say I blame em. They may not be very fast but they will destroy your vehicle in one shot. Nuff said?

I spent the rest of the afternoon running 900 pounds of dirt through the sluicebox in the creek below the house. Total gold? None. But... I found 15mg (0.015grams) platinum in a single teensy nugget:

That's a cool $0.84 right there.
2,133 more days like this and I'll have an ounce.
I earn my money.
Suck it.

Ff

You know what I say? (Wait for it...)
Yay!

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:13 am

cleaning day. Hoppe's #9 smells almost as good as black powder smoke...almost

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:16 pm

I know. I like the smell of outboard motor gas, gunpowder and yes, Hoppes.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:18 pm

Foxfur, were you an extra in "Public Enemy"?

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:44 pm

cowboyangel wrote:Foxfur, were you an extra in "Public Enemy"?

What's that? One of them talkies at the movie house?

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:57 pm

I hear Whitey Bulger won't be back again this year.

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:02 am

gyre wrote:I hear Whitey Bulger won't be back again this year.

Warms my heart to know he's gonna be big Bubba's squeezy fuck toy. Take it bitch, take it all!

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:51 pm

Does anyone know anything about the various trigger activators available?

I've learned how to make one run reliably, but I want to find the best one available.

Anyone have a spare they would sell?

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:04 pm

PHEW!!! ((pant pant pant pant pant)) Who ARE you??? And Wow! (pauses to light R&J Panatella, candela wrapper, Circa 1962ish...) Ahhh.....

Sorry for the silence, started looking at pix last weekend... surprised you couldn't hear the screaming all the way up there! Oh, and wet spot? WET SPOT?? Got Scuba gear??

BTW, prolly be somewhere up your neck of the woods end of the month. Got a class first week of August in Milwaukie... taking the new wheels on a road trip. Woohoo!!! May need to rent a set of clubs...

And... um... while Red Dot smells NOTHING like BP, either will still make my toes tingle! Then again, you're talking to someone who has hoppe's in a perfume atomizer. (Just found an old pint bottle of it stashed in a looooong unopened ammo can - gotta be 30-40 years old. Mmmmmmm!!!)

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:03 am

Bay Bridge Sue wrote:PHEW!!! ((pant pant pant pant pant)) Who ARE you??? And Wow! (pauses to light R&J Panatella, candela wrapper, Circa 1962ish...) Ahhh.....

Sorry for the silence, started looking at pix last weekend... surprised you couldn't hear the screaming all the way up there! Oh, and wet spot? WET SPOT?? Got Scuba gear??

BTW, prolly be somewhere up your neck of the woods end of the month. Got a class first week of August in Milwaukie... taking the new wheels on a road trip. Woohoo!!! May need to rent a set of clubs...

And... um... while Red Dot smells NOTHING like BP, either will still make my toes tingle! Then again, you're talking to someone who has hoppe's in a perfume atomizer. (Just found an old pint bottle of it stashed in a looooong unopened ammo can - gotta be 30-40 years old. Mmmmmmm!!!)

(tail wags, hind leg thumps)
Talkin all sexy like that...

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:02 am

DAMN YOU ALL right you let get all your big loud most bangiest of guns the ones i can only see in movies put them all in a big truck and await my arrival. its been 25 years since i pulled the trigger on a real gun and made it go bang. its been 9 years since i even touched a real gun (tidying my dads up for resale) so if y'all going to carry on putting pics up (yes im looking at YOU Mr Foxfur) i'm going to have to insist we go play.
also Ff have you ever watched fps russia on you tube, that guy makes a living out of posting videos of him shooting guns, and i notice you have at least 2 of the guns he has and dont you think the amercans should have a representative for being entertaining with guns?

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:14 am

The word you're reaching for is kablangiest,

I wish I could be there when Graidawg crosses the Rubicon.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:45 am

"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me.

I said, "Well, what do you need?"

-Stephen Wright

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:54 am

kablangiest? oh thats a good word i will try to use it soon

and cross the rubicon? im hoping to meet someone who knows my name at gate when i arrive with mydearfriend but crossing the rubicon sounds like a much bigger adventure.
also rubicon is a soft drink here in the uk

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:10 am

gyre wrote:"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me.

I said, "Well, what do you need?"

(And he has never been heard from again.... )

BTW, I will try to find the one of shooting russian artillery at avalanche zones... BTW, I now KNOW what I want for christmas!!

Foxfur wrote: (tail wags, hind leg thumps)
Talkin all sexy like that...

Heh heh heh.. if you only knew... now, if you'll pardon me, I must go caress my garand with a soft, slightly oily rag before work...

Have sweet dreams!!!

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:27 am

Bay Bridge Sue wrote:PHEW!!! ((pant pant pant pant pant)) Who ARE you??? And Wow! (pauses to light R&J Panatella, candela wrapper, Circa 1962ish...) Ahhh.....

Sorry for the silence, started looking at pix last weekend... surprised you couldn't hear the screaming all the way up there! Oh, and wet spot? WET SPOT?? Got Scuba gear??

BTW, prolly be somewhere up your neck of the woods end of the month. Got a class first week of August in Milwaukie... taking the new wheels on a road trip. Woohoo!!! May need to rent a set of clubs...

And... um... while Red Dot smells NOTHING like BP, either will still make my toes tingle! Then again, you're talking to someone who has hoppe's in a perfume atomizer. (Just found an old pint bottle of it stashed in a looooong unopened ammo can - gotta be 30-40 years old. Mmmmmmm!!!)

BBSue, we can likely arrange a tour of a shootin place when you are in the area. The bigger quarry is being opened for excavation (we were lucky and went there on the 5th for banging, it was closed on the 6th because of excavation for 8 -10 weeks) but I am sure Foxfur knows of other(besides the one in his back yard) note to self: time to reload some of them 30-06 linked rounds

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:01 am

EspressoDude wrote:
Bay Bridge Sue wrote:PHEW!!! ((pant pant pant pant pant)) Who ARE you??? And Wow! (pauses to light R&J Panatella, candela wrapper, Circa 1962ish...) Ahhh.....

Sorry for the silence, started looking at pix last weekend... surprised you couldn't hear the screaming all the way up there! Oh, and wet spot? WET SPOT?? Got Scuba gear??

BTW, prolly be somewhere up your neck of the woods end of the month. Got a class first week of August in Milwaukie... taking the new wheels on a road trip. Woohoo!!! May need to rent a set of clubs...

And... um... while Red Dot smells NOTHING like BP, either will still make my toes tingle! Then again, you're talking to someone who has hoppe's in a perfume atomizer. (Just found an old pint bottle of it stashed in a looooong unopened ammo can - gotta be 30-40 years old. Mmmmmmm!!!)
BBSue, we can likely arrange a tour of a shootin place when you are in the area. The bigger quarry is being opened for excavation (we were lucky and went there on the 5th for banging, it was closed on the 6th because of excavation for 8 -10 weeks) but I am sure Foxfur knows of other(besides the one in his back yard) note to self: time to reload some of them 30-06 linked rounds

swoon............

Foxfur · Post by **Foxfur** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:24 am

Looks like I had a premature discharge.
I expended my basic combat load down the wrong lane.
The red flag was up and the anticipation... You know what I mean.
Refer to the massive retaliatory strike I committed upon your technically stimulating post in rites of passage:
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 14#p688214
If you survive that on your feet I will slam a Ranger badge into your breastbone with a blued steel grin.

Did I mention my service in charlie btry, 2/218th FA?
Sakes alive it's a 105...
(If that's not hot enough, mebbe take it up to 155?)
Glad our air-mobile 105's had the roll bar over the breech.
Nothing like a anchor point to multiply the thrusting force of my seperately loaded MTSQ projectile.
Load, unload, load, unload, load, unload.
I'm almost there...

(Intelligent social intercourse stimulates charge 9 fire missions in this soldiers army)
Gonna go open a slit in an MRE entree and conduct a surrepetitious entry drill.

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