Who would you trade places with in the gun community?

[entropy]

Harry Pope.

 

[230RN]

I was going to go with Elmer Keith or Julian Hatcher. Keith because of my interest in long-range pistoleering, Hatcher because he had the incredible resources of the then-Ordnance Department to play with.

With you or I wrecking a pressure gun or a Garand, it would be a Big Deal. With him it was just all in a day's work.*

Terry

* One of my favorite incidents was when they were experimenting with barrel obstructions. At one point, they fired the gun (remotely) and nothing happened but the click of the firing pin fall. Approaching cautiously, thinking that maybe the cartridge had in fact fired, and all that pressure was still in the gun. So they tapped the bolt open with a long stick. A loud pop ensued and the empty shell was ejected smartly enough that it embedded itself in the wall. What fun!

 

[jim in Anchorage]

I was going to go with Elmer Keith or Julian Hatcher. Keith because of my interest in long-range pistoleering, Hatcher because he had the incredible resources of the then-Ordnance Department to play with.

With you or I wrecking a pressure gun or a Garand, it would be a Big Deal. With him it was just all in a day's work.*

Terry

* One of my favorite incidents was when they were experimenting with barrel obstructions. At one point, they fired the gun (remotely) and nothing happened but the click of the firing pin fall. Approaching cautiously, thinking that maybe the cartridge had in fact fired, and all that pressure was still in the gun. So they tapped the bolt open with a long stick. A loud pop ensued and the empty shell was ejected smartly enough that it embedded itself in the wall. What fun!

Yeah that would be a neat job.

 

[MedWheeler]

I have a good life, and wouldn't care to trade it for anyone else's. After all, I know my life, and not anyone else's.

That being said, this guy has a pretty sweet life setup: YouTube channel "GUN-TIME with Brandon."

Hot wife, sweet kid, backyard range, and country living in Kentucky.. (I got the first two!)

 

[Rio Laxas]

It would be a tough choice between Tom Threepersons and Skeeter Skelton.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I don't want to "trade places" with but....

I'd love access to C. Reed Knight's or Tim Lafrance's manufacturing facilities and business connections.


Todd.

 

[JRWhit]

I would mix two. Bill Gates because funding is everything, and Hickok45 because I can think of no funner way to spend life than making videos of myself trying every firearm in existence at a personal range right outside my front door.

 

[aarondhgraham]

I wanna trade places with,,,

Matt Duff.

'nuff said?

Aarond


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[chicharrones]

No one specifically, but it would have been interesting to grow up working in the gun industry and having a job with the money to enjoy the shooting and hunting sports more.

 

[Bullseye]

Being Ted Nugent for a little while might be fun.

 

[Old Fuff]

I have no idea. My massive ego won't let me pick anyone else...