Memories and What's It?

[quicksylver]

20 + years ago a friend and I would put on a "Gentleman's Shoot"..we held it on his 350 acre cranberry bog..we would invite 100 people and host a Clam Bake after...I found some of the pictures but not all..YET I hope..

How many of these can you name..

Nothing was "for show"..every thing fired and was fired...only rule was you had to load your own mags..
we also had a water cooled 30...and a grenade launcher..
Ammo in crates stack up on a 24' wall about 4' high....

Can't find the picture of the .22 cal Hotchkins ..suppressed full auto..

Anything that could be full auto was made full auto..some friends had a gov. contract to develop cans for about everything out there..

Plus we had prototypes from about every manufacturer there was..so you might see some stuff that never got to market..

More about this later..

Thanks for putting up with an old man's musings...

 

[Ben]

WOW ! !

Some of that needs paperwork.

Ben

 

[quicksylver]

WOW ! !

Some of that needs paperwork.

Ben

And we had it...

When we opened up we could be heard fot well over a mile...soooo..we brought all our tickets to the LEO'S...

THAT WAY WHEN THE CALLS STARTED TO COME IN THEY COULD SAY.."ALL PAPERWORK WAS IN ORDER"

However about two years after these were taken the local town athorities closed us down because of the noise...

 

[KHornet]

Presume the Gattlings were 22 Rimfires? Looks like fun, but a waste of a lot of ammo. That said look at the empties that can be reloaded.
Have never seen a cranberry bog before, looks like a great area to shoot over.

 

[quicksylver]

The Cranberry bog was perfect..if anyone tried to get out in front they would only end up 6 feet down in a water filled ditch....
It also soaked up a lot of low rounds..

That's an old car we got from the junk yard up the street..

 

[quicksylver]

BYW..those were made from partial kits...

 

[yodogsandman]

Heard stories of a 45-70 gattlin' gun all the way up here. Was that you guys?

 

[quicksylver]

...no ..but we always had at least a dozen trap doors there.....

Sad part was thaty buddy had quite a bit of money....he thought nothing off buying 1000 rnds of original 45-70 in original cases and opening and shooting them....some antique stuff he would collect other stuff he would just use...good thing he had no interest in stamps......

 

[Cherokee]

Some neat guns there, and a lot of fun...Ahhhh, I miss the old days

 

[Pistolero]

A lot of very interesting guns. I have had the opportunity to fire a repro Gatling in .45-70 owned
by Hodgdon Powder a few years back. THAT is fun! Looks like a mini-Knob Creek.

Bill

 

[smokeywolf]

Dad had an original Gatling gun on a mahogany tripod in one end of his workshop.

We moved from that house when I was eight. The Gatling gun didn't move with us. All I can figure is, he sold it.