Knob Creek machine gun shootout...

[eccvets]

I hit up the Knob Creek machine gun shootout yesterday and I have mixed feelings about it. It's by far the biggest machine gun/class 3 sales/show event I have ever seen and if I never had to come back to commi kalifornia, I would have bought a lot of stuff which sucks for me but at least I know these types of weapons can be had legally in this country still! The gun shoot itself took a while, I sat (actually I stood there and my legs were aching at the end of the night as I walked around and was there since the morning) from 5pm-10pm and they had 3-30min rounds due to a fire on the mountain side from .50cal bmg tracer fire and there was only one real night shoot when it was dark. All the standing around sucked but at least I got a great spot in the front of the crowd which seem like there were way too many people squished in to that little area. It seem like everyone there also either smoked ciggys or cigars which started to get a bit irritating considering I had a hard time breathing and it was an outdoor event which was highly odd. Once the shooting started though it was great. I have gone to the california bear's club belt fed events (great meetup group) but you can only have chains of like 10 rounds in Cali while the guys here in kentucky had cans full of ammo which they would swap out on a dime and keep on shooting. They had tannerite strapped to 55gallon barrels full of gas and when they said go, even though the barrels were out there, you could feel the heat and the shockwave hit you in the face and body and sorta push you back a bit which was awesome. Most guys had a few full auto rifles, a lot had 1919a and some had full auto .50cal bmg with tracers. There was even a guy with a GE minigun and when that thing went off, holy crap man, shread city! All in all, the event was some what worth it although I though there would be more shooting and less standing around. It seems like a better show on youtube if you wanna see guns and stuff but you dont get the feeling of the heat and blast when stuff blows up.


P.S. I have never seen so many backwater hillbillies before in my life but everyone was very friendly and nice.

[eccvets]

a youtube video of last night, not my video; I was standing much more front and center.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVBTjj3d6U

[jester]

I've been too,a couple years ago.
Had a great time. Camped out in the field for the weekend.
Exactly as you described.
Did you do the jungle walk @ the lower range? Rent any full autos?
I rented a full auto sterling & put a few mags thru it, very fun...!!

[iareConfusE]

a youtube video of last night, not my video; I was standing much more front and center.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVBTjj3d6U

Holy cow.....

The first volley of simultaneous fire was ridiculous.

[nemisis1400]

you got a ball park idea of how much it was to rent and fire a full-auto. went to vegas a couple weeks ago, and decided to pass on it since it was too much for me. that and i blew most of my money at that point already

[HotRails]

a youtube video of last night, not my video; I was standing much more front and center.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVBTjj3d6U

The rebel yell lives!! I guess this is what the Union heard before Picketts charge.

[B Strong]

I hit up the Knob Creek machine gun shootout yesterday and I have mixed feelings about it. It's by far the biggest machine gun/class 3 sales/show event I have ever seen and if I never had to come back to commi kalifornia, I would have bought a lot of stuff which sucks for me but at least I know these types of weapons can be had legally in this country still! The gun shoot itself took a while, I sat (actually I stood there and my legs were aching at the end of the night as I walked around and was there since the morning) from 5pm-10pm and they had 3-30min rounds due to a fire on the mountain side from .50cal bmg tracer fire and there was only one real night shoot when it was dark. All the standing around sucked but at least I got a great spot in the front of the crowd which seem like there were way too many people squished in to that little area. It seem like everyone there also either smoked ciggys or cigars which started to get a bit irritating considering I had a hard time breathing and it was an outdoor event which was highly odd. Once the shooting started though it was great. I have gone to the california bear's club belt fed events (great meetup group) but you can only have chains of like 10 rounds in Cali while the guys here in kentucky had cans full of ammo which they would swap out on a dime and keep on shooting. They had tannerite strapped to 55gallon barrels full of gas and when they said go, even though the barrels were out there, you could feel the heat and the shockwave hit you in the face and body and sorta push you back a bit which was awesome. Most guys had a few full auto rifles, a lot had 1919a and some had full auto .50cal bmg with tracers. There was even a guy with a GE minigun and when that thing went off, holy crap man, shread city! All in all, the event was some what worth it although I though there would be more shooting and less standing around. It seems like a better show on youtube if you wanna see guns and stuff but you dont get the feeling of the heat and blast when stuff blows up.


P.S. I have never seen so many backwater hillbillies before in my life but everyone was very friendly and nice.

I'll date myself a little here, but if you think it's wild now, you should have seen it back in the 1970's and pre-86 - what was being sold OTC in the pole barn would have made Iggy faint dead away.

Lots more non-shooting public now, and the deals to be had aren't what they once were, but I guess nothing much else is either when you get down to it.

[Scratch705]

damn.... from the video... that first volley looked better than any war movie battle scene...

[eccvets]

it cost about 40 bucks to shoot 30 rounds of pretty much any submachine gun/full auto rifle full auto and about 100 bucks for 100 round chains in the bigger rifles. The only exception i think was shooting 40-50 rounds out of a tommy gun which was like 80-100 bucks.

[nemisis1400]

yeah that pricing is way cheaper than the stuff at vegas, though the Thompson actually cost more than the vega prices. odd that.