dual welding, this guy is a rock star or maybe a bit nuts

[musclehead]

I wanna try, where do I sign up 

Dual Weilding M249 Machine Guns

[czuch]

I vote Rock Star.
Try your local recruiters station. They'll be glad to give you the opportuinity and then you can taste the freedom because you will have earned it.
The rest of you, you're welcome.

[musclehead]

I vote Rock Star.
Try your local recruiters station. They'll be glad to give you the opportuinity and then you can taste the freedom because you will have earned it.
The rest of you, you're welcome.

first of all, thank you for serving (and the rest of you vets too). they may raise an eyebrow at the recuiting office, I'm no spring chicken.

maybe they have a 'silver solder' outfit for the old'uns

I've been around for 18,201 days, my only real regret was not signing up for military service when I was 18.

[Master Blaster]

Awesome, but dual Mini Guns wouldbe really cool, 8,000 RPM each.  Mebby a little heavy to shoot from the hip though. 

[czuch]

Silver Soldier cracks me up!!!!!!!!!!! Thats funny,,,,,,,LOLOLOLOLOL.
You could go to a "machine gun shoot" and rent one for a lottacash.
Google "Big Sandy Shoot".  Pictures and movies. Twice a year and well worth the drive.

[The Anvil]

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.

[Jason O]

*dual wielding

Sorry just couldn't resist.  Thought I was gonna see someone welding two separate beads at the same time. Happy I was wrong since this is much cooler!!

[old2soon]

One macho dude. I fired a 30 cal air cooled off the ship and even with the sand bags on the tripod mount it wanted to walk. Old fat fart like me wouldn't die in combat-they won't take me and the P T would do me in in basic. A long time ago me and a marine buddy of mine would run 8 or 10 miles BEFORE breakfast. Walkin out to the garage or to the car gets me huffin and puffin now. To all who have served and to those serving-thanks. RIDE SAFE.

[musclehead]

Silver Soldier cracks me up!!!!!!!!!!! Thats funny,,,,,,,LOLOLOLOLOL.
You could go to a "machine gun shoot" and rent one for a lottacash.
Google "Big Sandy Shoot".  Pictures and movies. Twice a year and well worth the drive.

some gun shops/shooting ranges also have full auto for rent. some places in texas (figures huh) and I think I remember one in AZ.

[musclehead]

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?

[The Anvil]

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.