We have machine gun shoots up in Coos county at the end of spring. I've got a few buds with full auto stuff who let me shoot, I just have to pay for the ammo. .223? 7.62 com block surplus? Not bad. .50 BMG? That gets pricey pretty quick.
Coos county NH? if I remember right there's a Coos county OR too, small world.
just flipping fun eh?
Yup. It's the last county before you hit Canadia. Not surprising about that though. Portland Oregon was named after Portland Maine as a sister city. A lot of Northeasterners made their way out west back then and took some names with them.
Here's a funny story about that machine gun shoot. This one is held (or at leas WAS, haven't been in some time) on a big farm that the owner rents out for such things. Well one spring when there was still snow on the ground and laying around in piles someone happened to notice a hoof sticking out of a snowbank.
"Hey Kurt, what's with that hoof?"
Turns out it was an old horse that had died over the winter and Kurt the landowner had tucked it into a snowbank to await the ground thawing enough to dispose of it. Someone came up with the bright idea of using the horse for target practice. Kurt agreed (for a three figure sum) but said that we absolutely HAD to pick up every last piece and dispose of it. We figured that the horse was still largely frozen and wouldn't be much of a problem.
Boy were we wrong. Even frozen cursed near solid .50 BMG tears HUGE chunks out of horseflesh and sends it flying hither, dither and yon. But once you get started on something like that you get giddy. Before you knew it people were hurling ten round bursts at this thing like it was Raquel Welch in a white t-shirt and that ma deuce was a super soaker. It was both awesome AND sickening to behold.
As the day wore on the the carcass thawed (as did the chunks of horseflesh hurled about the countryside) and the stank commenced. It took the rest of that day and much of the next morning to clear the area of horse-chunks and when we were done we all stunk. Then it all had to be dumped in a earth mover bucked and buried. But it WAS worth it.
