[Pulp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq42cc6ZYKg

I finally found a misplaced VCR tape that had this video on it, so it is finally on youtube.
Feller is shooting at Ambush at Cavern Cove, '02 (Alabama), first stage of the morning, into the sun, very muggy, high humidity, and almost no breeze.

[bigbadgun]

ROFLMAO
That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. hahahahaha

[davecampperry]

As they say in South Texas, "Siss far, siss far."

[Voodoochile]

ROFLMAO, yup even though that isn't me for real but here at the range I've been known to lay my own smoke screen down.. :evil:

Very good video, I'm glad you found it.

[Rachen]

OMG, I would pay anything to be over there with you guys in that video!:D

Now thats FUN!

[Rachen]

ROFLMAO, yup even though that isn't me for real but here at the range I've been known to lay my own smoke screen down..

Yeh cheater!:evil::D

[Gunruner]

"LOVE IT!" Imagine a real shootout in the old days inside a building...................Wow...Mike

[ACP230]

Keepin' the bugs down!

[mykeal]

Stop me if you've heard this one before - oh, that's right, you can't. Oh well....

Many years ago I took my 2nd Dragoon to the local public outdoor range for some break-it-in work. Two stations to the right was a woman with a young boy maybe 12 years old. They were shooting a .22 semiauto - she was 'instructing' the lad. There were 3 other stations occupied to my left, shooting a couple small caliber revolvers and another semiauto.

It was mid-morning, very calm, warm and somewhat humid, a nice Kansas prairie day. I loaded all 6 with essentially full chambers of real black from a small outfit in Arkansas. I decided to see how fast I could fire all six by cocking and firing (not fanning) without aiming - just pointing downrange.

It took about 5 seconds to empty the gun. The woman two stations down broke and ran after the 4th shot. The boy yelled, "WOW", grinning from ear to ear. The other 3 shooters had to cease fire as they could not see their targets for the smoke (neither, of course could I, but then I wasn't trying to). The rangemaster nearly fell out of his chair laughing, and then collected himself and said, in his most official voice, "Don't you EVER do that again!". And then started laughing again. It took a good 5-6 minutes for the range to be usable again.

The boy came over and wanted to see what I was shooting, and asked if he could try it. We went looking for his mother and met her on her way back on to the range. He convinced her to stay and let him shoot my gun, after much reassuring that it wouldn't take his arm off (which required support from the range master).

The kid shot two cylinders and was hooked. We met about once a month until he got his own bp revolver for his birthday. His dad became a good friend, but I don't think his mother ever really got over that first volley.

[Gunruner]

Great story........Mike

[neviander]

Smoke signals, woot!

[Rachen]

Mykeal, what gun did you use? I bet it was a Walker right?:D

[Sistema1927]

I am glad that I wasn't a spotter for that stage! There is no way that you could ever call a procedural on that guy, since you would have no idea which targets he was shooting at. "Audible spotting" only, since you certainly can't see anything.

[scrat]

that has got to be some of the most craziest shooting i have seen. just plum crazy. Must have smelled like rotten eggs for miles around.
:)

[Voodoochile]

that has got to be some of the most craziest shooting i have seen. just plum crazy. Must have smelled like rotten eggs for miles around.


I love the smell of Rotten Eggs in the morning, smells like FUN.

Yeah mykeal, since I've joined the local Izzak Walton League I've made quite a few friends & a few unhappy persons "mostly those that like those little 9mm things" but ya know what each session is well worth it even if I'm by my self. :D :evil:
Great story BTW, now that's a friendship etched in stone. :)

[Pulp]

Load up a bunch and take 'em to an indoor range. I did that last year at OKC. Downright amazin' how much attention you get from the other folks.

[davecampperry]

Loved your story, Mykeal. Got any more?

[English Bob]

Cool, very cool, you gotta love BP.

[mykeal]

Mykeal, what gun did you use? I bet it was a Walker right?

No, Uberti 1848 Colt 2nd Model Dragoon. Didn't have the Walkers back then. This was almost 30 years ago, one of my first revolvers (I'd been shooting single shot muzzleloaders up until then) and I was just learning how they worked. The fact that I could single handedly shut down the entire range was quite an experience.

[sundance44s]

Had an indoor range experience somewhat like Mykeal back in the 70`s someone opened an indoor range here open 24/7 ,,one night I called and asked if I could sight in my muzzleloading rifle the night before opening day deer season ...the guy running the place said sure we aren`t crowded at all tonight ...so I showed up with my 54 cal Hawken and a box of buffalo bullets ...Lots of people had showed up in the mean time shooting their modern pistols ...I took the last booth and loaded her up ....Well .. when I touched off the shot a woman screamed and all the people ran out of the range ..I think the woman must have thought a bomb went off in there ..LOL

[Voodoochile]

Sundance:

I was once asked to leave a indoor range in 88' "after being informed that it was OK" when I touched off 6 from my 3rd Dragoon & the gun shop area started noticing the smoke coming around the door!
Only one vent fan was on & it wasn't that great. LOL

[Calibre44]

I was shooting my 2nd Model Dragoon in an end booth of aprox 10 booths earlier this year. As it was the end booth there was a brick wall on my left. Anyway I decided to load up with 42 grains of BP for the first time.

The funny thing was that the sound waves from 42 grains of powder must have been amplified in the shooting booth and bounced back off the brick wall as it blew the foam earplug out of my friends left ear! :eek: (you can see part of him on my right)

Strange thing was - we never found it!! :D

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg230/woodsy_2008/Guns/misc4042.jpg

[Rachen]

No, Uberti 1848 Colt 2nd Model Dragoon. Didn't have the Walkers back then. This was almost 30 years ago, one of my first revolvers (I'd been shooting single shot muzzleloaders up until then) and I was just learning how they worked. The fact that I could single handedly shut down the entire range was quite an experience.

Still close enough!:neener::D

The Walker was the magnum of it's day, while the Dragoons were the light magnums as well.

I am aware that if you load them Dragoons to the max, the loading lever will still flip down, despite the spring and the latch.

[Rachen]

The funny thing was that the sound waves from 42 grains of powder must have been amplified in the shooting booth and bounced back off the brick wall as it blew the foam earplug out of my friends left ear! (you can see part of him on my right)

Strange thing was - we never found it!!

Maybe it was your friendly range poltergeist, awakened by the sound of the the Dragoon.:D

It could have been the wave coming from the barrel/cylinder gap or the muzzle, too, since your friend looks like he is standing pretty close to the gun.

[Mike 56]

mykael, Great story I have emptied a few benches shooting my 51 Colt i can't imagine shooting off six rapid fire. I have had people think my gun blew up becuse of all the smoke. It's funny how you can be shooting next to a guy shooting real nice groups with a 500 S&W and you get all the attention with a old BP Colt. :D

Mike

[Dirtypacman]

Great video thanks for sharing.

I have not pop'd my BP cherry yet but it is in my plans.