ga red clay
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Way back when, when I was a young kid, I had a family friend who, after done eating dinner with my parents, would take me up to his gun closet and let me look at whatever I wanted. He had all kinds of rare weaponry, I cant even remember them all but some of the oddest, to me at the time, at least, included:
-A full auto WWII M3 SMG. I remember this one cause he called it the grease gun.
-A .50 cal machine gun, mounted to the back of his IH Scout. I remember that one cause it had triggers you fired with your thumbs, which was so cool and odd at the time.
-And an old belt fed machine gun that had a water cooled barrel. He'd hook it up to the hose in the back to show me how it worked.
All of these things arent really all that weird now, but at the time, they blew my mind. I guess weird is in the eye of the beholder. One man's weird is another man's normal.
More recently, a guy at the range, next to me, had a .45-70 with a pistol grip, a short 16" barrel, and barrel shroud, as well as a really nice scope and bipod. Recoil like a mule-kick, but fun to see him shoot it. Just odd to see a rifle like that with such a short barrel and a pistol grip.
-A full auto WWII M3 SMG. I remember this one cause he called it the grease gun.
-A .50 cal machine gun, mounted to the back of his IH Scout. I remember that one cause it had triggers you fired with your thumbs, which was so cool and odd at the time.
-And an old belt fed machine gun that had a water cooled barrel. He'd hook it up to the hose in the back to show me how it worked.
All of these things arent really all that weird now, but at the time, they blew my mind. I guess weird is in the eye of the beholder. One man's weird is another man's normal.
More recently, a guy at the range, next to me, had a .45-70 with a pistol grip, a short 16" barrel, and barrel shroud, as well as a really nice scope and bipod. Recoil like a mule-kick, but fun to see him shoot it. Just odd to see a rifle like that with such a short barrel and a pistol grip.