Unfulfilled shooting ambitions ... ''dream on''!!

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We have quite a few threads running re what people do -- what they have ... etc but ... try this one.

What is your wish (dream) - to sorta ''round out'' your shooting experiences.

For me ...

1] Playing with a belt fed (Ma Duce for example) ... or even better, a 20mm. Unlimited ammo ... naturally. :D

2] Ultra long range (damn, no deserts round here :( ) .. .50 BMG of course.!

3] And, getting really silly (in the ''dream on'' category) ...... some serious anti tank work with a Boffors! :evil: On a mil tank range.

4] And also on a mil tank range .. just once ... fire a RPG!
 
Winning a long distance match with a blackpowder chunk gun or consistently hitting a man sized target with a Whitworth at 1800 yards.
 
More time behind a BAR...

I'd like to shoot a Bizon...

and a Cape Buffalo.

Oh and one of these days I'm going to try CAS.

Did I mention firing a small cannon off the deck of a frigate?
 
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Cowboy Action Shooting?

Ive always wanted to have a "backyard range". I guess some of the people in my neighborhood have them judging by the sound but the following sirens tell me I need to move to the country.
 
Quick, someone book a trip to Romania or Bulgaria for P95!
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Well, I'm from Bulgaria. Most people can only shoot a BB Gun there - at a nice fair or amusement park - LOL. No shooting at all for ordinary people :(

Romania, another former Communist block countrey, would probably not be much different.

But I'm very happy to say - we are in the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, put me down for # 2 - Ultra long range (damn, no deserts round here ) .. .50 BMG of course.!

And...Shooting a machine gun at ground targets off a moving helicopter - Whooooaaaaaaaaaaa!

Nik
 
Chris, Have I got a deal for you ! , You bring the 50cal and ammo and I'll provide the spot for some "ultra long range" , of course we'll have to take my ATV to check/set targets (to heck with those mile+ roundtrips walkin)! Ray
 
P95, #1,2, and sorta, 4 (M72LAW), all courtesy of Uncle Sugar.

Larry Ashcraft- BTDT when I was 11- my Dad took me to the PD range right before they turned in their M1A1 Thompsons for M16A1's.:D (had all that .45 ACP to shoot up, ya know!)

4v50 Gary- WOW!:eek: I'm getting all 'Quiggely' -down under, too! Count me in!

Dr. Rob-M1918A2? One of my dreams, too!:)
Close Air Support sounds fun, does riding door gun on a UH-1N count?

c_yeager- got one, although very informal. Just a pile of logs with targets set up in front.

DonNikmare-glad you're here in the US, It's a challenge. Never had to shoot at targets that shot back, though. That could get hairy!:uhoh:

and my secret (well not any more) unfulfilled shooting ambition?
Caribou at 500+ yds.:D
 
Full auto Ruger 10/22

Full-Auto 12ga. shotgun .......can't remember the proper name

I would ove to own the FA 10/22......pretty much any other Class III I can live without.


Mino
 
There's one experience I'd like to repeat. I didn't get to fire any of it, but I sure got to call it.

I was visiting an artillery FO position as an officer candidate and they were about to call a time-on-target mission. Such a mission involves guns from batteries located at different sites, so for the rounds to arrive at the same time, the firing has to be carefully staged by the fire control team.

At the FO position (this is from about 16 years ago, so details of the procedure are fuzzy), you make a regular call for fire. I forget if you request the TOT mission due to the significance of the target, or if the FC just does it.

Anyway, the team leader says, "Let's let the candidate call this next mission." He tells me what to report as a target, and the grid location of the registered benchmark we're using in the impact area. So, having been dutifully trained in making the call for fire, I begin, "Victor Niner Five this is Sierra Two Two, adjust fire, over."

Now that I think of it, it began as "adjust fire" but when I continued with the target description of "mechanized battalion in the open moving south" the controller on the other end got excited.

Anyway, we get through the authentication part and there's a "shot, over" so we get ready for what I think will be several rounds at once.

Imagine my surprise when the field below us *erupts* in smoke and flame. No less than a battalion (two 155mm batteries and one battery of 8-inch) lit up that impact area like nothing I've seen. Oh, baby.

The King of Battle, indeed.
 
Calling arty

Series 70, sounds like you had a blast!:D (Get it?) Usually TOT missions are called to reduce the enemy's chance of scattering. It also makes it harder for the guns to be plotted back for counterbattery fire by radar. They'll often call different types of shots in a TOT mission, i.e. , CS, WP and HE all at once.:what: What a hellish firestorm to be caught in, eh?:evil:
Ever had a battery of M109's open up 50 yds. away from you while you are blissfully sleeping at 0300?:D No fun, Sir!:cuss: I couldn't hear for several hours.:uhoh: It is fun to watch arty (from a safe distance) do it's thing. 16 years ago was when I was in. (Ft. Ord, 7th ID(L))Our redlegs were just getting the Light Gun, and there were British and Anzac atillerymen all over post. Their professionalism impressed me, and our arty guys. I wish my roomate knew enough to salute a British Major we passed once.(We were SPC's) I asked him later about it, his reply was, "I didn't know he was a major." The ironic thing is the poster with foreign rank insignia was posted next to his desk!
Yes, I'd like to pull the lanyard on a 'Big Gun' once, too, if only for history's sake. My great-great grandfather, whom I'm named after, was a gunner in the Civil War. (2 MN Light Bty)
 
I'd like to pull the lanyard on a 'Big Gun' once, too
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I got to do that earlier in the day, at a 155 (towed) battery. Kinda fun, but I had nothing to do with getting the gun prepared to fire, so it was more a novelty experience for me.

The one thing that impressed me was how hard the gun crew worked. The powder monkey was *hustling* between the gun and the powder store (sensibly kept well to the rear of the gun ;) ) and the other members of the crew did their jobs very crisply.
 
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