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LuckyGunner Blogger Shoot at Bullet Fest 2011

By The Armorer on May 28, 2011 | | Comments (23)
 MP38's, M14s, full-auto Glocks, MG08's, anti-tank guns, M5 Stuarts, a half-track, a bunch of mountain howitzers, and free ammo.  What more do you want?

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By JamesLee on May 28, 2011 1:00 PM
Is it wrong of me to feel a little, um, 'excited,' after watching that?  Now I think I need to focus more on the guns and less on politics (that is, when I get around to writing anything these days).

Have fun, John, be safe!
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 28, 2011 1:40 PM
Of course it isn't, James.  Why'dya think I posted this...?
 
By Cricket on May 28, 2011 1:48 PM

A Question Here:  I am wondering how much accuracy increases with the use of a sound and flash suppressor. 

Otherwise, it does look like fun.  I dunno that I would want to fire the main gun on a tank as much as I would like to drive one of the beasts.  I would also like to fire an Uzi.  Those are kewl.

 
By Quartermaster on May 28, 2011 3:23 PM
 In a Tank, the gunner is just a passenger until someone tells him about a target. That's why Arty types don't like Tankers. We haven't learned the proper reverence for the cannon cocker (and probably never will).

Seriously, Tanking, if you're the driver, can be blast. I had an M-60 about 5' off the ground running across an LZ at Campbell back in '85. I drove the Co. Commander's tank and he said I was insane. No higher compliment....

Before The Armorer lands on me with both feet, I know the Tank exists just to carry that big tube to where it's needed (have I made proper amends?).
 
By Quartermaster on May 28, 2011 3:26 PM
 You're just over a 100 miles from in Waynesville, NC.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 28, 2011 3:39 PM
Tankers exist to tell me how much I missed by... or did I miss?  (my first wife left me for a tanker - there is no such thing as "Danger Close" if a 19-series MOS is involved...)
 
By RetRsvMike on May 28, 2011 4:08 PM
you call it "Suppression"; we call call it "oops, must have missed it somehow".
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on May 28, 2011 4:16 PM
 www.youtube.com/watch
Always treat a Tank Gunner properly, he's not Artillery.

Cheers
 
By DL Sly on May 28, 2011 6:22 PM
"What more do you want?"

Ummm......to be there?
0>;~}
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 28, 2011 8:35 PM
Oooo, and the Dark Lord Sly goes all existentialist on us!

To do is to be.  I did so I am.

More succinctly, "Neener neener neener!"

Oh, and I saw Bill's long lost twin brother.  He's a rebel artillery 1st Sergeant in Burrough's Battery and has a very classic Tennessee drawl.

And he let me fire his cannon.  I'm thinking Bill wouldn't let me fly his helicopter.

I think.
 
By Cannonshop on May 29, 2011 6:26 AM
Everyone knows the true purpose of a tank, is to get into a situation that triggers a 'rescue response' from the infantry  ("...oh shit, they're going to get stuck we better bail their dumb (censored) out or we'll get the blame for it...") Thus, creating the break-out and/or break-throughs.
 
By DL Sly on May 29, 2011 9:41 AM
Existentialist, hell!  That's pure, deep jade jealousy.
ptthtthtthtthtthttht!
I guess my only joy is knowing that SWWBO has told you, "No, you can't have/can't afford that!" at least a dozen times by now.
heh
0>;~}
 
By Cricket on May 29, 2011 10:00 AM
So...are these events scheduled every year?  The Young Man has been green with envy.  He saw all the shooters, the tank and the half track and just sighed.

It's good for the lad.
 
By Justthisguy on May 29, 2011 4:33 PM
The Wikipedia article on the U.S. 175mm SP gun used to (I haven't looked at it lately)  include a part about tank sniping with it. The  guy said you could make them fly up into the air and bounce around.  The writer was obviously an enthusiast for the piece, so his contribution prolly got edited out for "original research."
 
By Quartermaster on May 29, 2011 5:55 PM
 The Army has changed the Armor Series number for some reason. I didn't get the 19 series bit until I plugged it into Yahoo!. When I was in the TARNG '85-'87, I was a Tanker, 13E.  No idea why the Army would change it.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 29, 2011 8:27 PM
QM, I think your memory has a faulty register.  13E is Fire Direction Specialist, and was back in the day.  13B is cannoneer, and 13F is Fire Support Specialist (i.e., forward observer).  13A is Fire Support, General, which is the MOS you got as an officer when you graduated the advanced course.
 
By Mark Matis on May 29, 2011 8:40 PM
Heh, screw LuckyGun Blogger.  If ol' Bill wasn't such a candy-ass, he would've been doin' sumthin' like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2XIGMI2kM&feature=player_embedded
on a regular basis...
}:-]
 
By BillT on May 29, 2011 10:38 PM
I'm thinking Bill wouldn't let me fly his helicopter.

Consider the logistics -- you'd exceed the c.g. limits in the front seat of a Loach, and  you definitely wouldn't be able to squeeze through the canopy door of a Cobra, but given a sufficient quantity of lithium grease, I could probably get you seated in the right seat of a Hubert.

If ol' Bill wasn't such a candy-ass, he would've been doin' sumthin' like this:

I did "sumthin' like that" while taking fire from both sides of the river bank southeast of Moc Hoa -- nobody thought to make a vid, though...
 
By Attila on May 30, 2011 12:39 AM
Oooo...that left a mark... 
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 30, 2011 6:54 AM
I can too get in a Hubert. 

Yeah, the Loach would prolly fly like a B-52, and we'd pole-vault when the wirecutter dug in.

Mark - don't diss the guys who gave me a day of free access to machineguns and all the ammo I could burn, 'k?
 
By Tam on May 30, 2011 7:30 AM
It was great to meet you!
 
By Susan Katz Keating on May 30, 2011 8:08 AM
 I figger Mark was talking about this kind of candy... Otherwise, we'd all just think he was one o' these..    ; )
 
By Oldloadr on May 30, 2011 9:15 AM

Bill, I think the lithium grease comment was OTT (just my humble opinion)... But then, you zipper suited sun-gods are always over the top... (just sayin')