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Fun at the machine gun shoot

Chuck — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:02:23 +0000

This last weekend was our semi annual when we get around to it kind of twice a year maybe only once a year machine gun shoot. It is nothing great or grand. There are no fees, no explosives, no sales tables, no flying targets and no spectators. Just a boring time of a bunch of guys that enjoy shooting machine guns, cannons and mortars having fun. We have had up to a couple of hundred people show up and as little as only 10. This was a nice get together of about 40 or so people with about 400 or so different types of weapons. It was a time to relax. The guys next to me had a very nice mini gun as well as an assortment of other machine guns. There were MG-42,MG-34, Vickers in both 8×57 and 7.62x54r, M-2 , Maxims, a couple of Hotchkiss guns and a pile of 1919 and 1917 Brownings. A very nice cross sections of machineguns.My wife and I did a number of videos generally in slow motion, it just looks cool and it also allowed me to study the operation a little more closely. I got to work on a couple of Brownings and get them up and running as well as a Vickers. I had a great time. What could be better then working on and shooting machine guns. Here is a quick video of some of the fun had.

There is more to come on the shoot. A couple of interesting items coming up is a 8mm Vickers using MG-34/42 belts, the Hotchkiss portative, and an MG-34 that was said to work in 308.

Just as a side note I now have the updated version 19 ultimate version of pinnacle studio. I am trying to improve my videos and using some of the more complex extras. Hoping to get better at this.

Austrian WW1 37mm

Chuck — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:00:31 +0000

I have a thing about 37mm, one pound, cannons. So over the years I have taken a number of pictures of different types of 37mm pieces. This post is a series of photos that I have taken on the Austrian WW1 37mm piece. The proper name for this weapon is the 3.7 cm infanteriegesch,TZ Skoda M.15 This weapon was design and produced by Feldmarsschalleutnant Pucherna. Originally not approved, he went ahead and design the gun. The test gun was made in late 1914 and put into production and put into the field in October 1915.This is a basic line drawing of the weapon.

My goal is that one day I could make a model of this interesting weapon. So here are the pictures.

If you have an interest in 3.7cm artillery pieces you should check out this book.

Archive Photo 4-9-15

Chuck — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:28:19 +0000

I took these pictures in South Carolina about 10 years ago. This is a ships landing gun and is an interesting piece.

If anyone has information on this weapon I would appreciate hearing about it.

Archive Photo.

Chuck — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:00:58 +0000

This is another in a series of pictures that I took over 20 years ago. I had and still have a thing about artillery I have always wanted a piece of artillery of my own but never seem to have the funds available when they came up for sale. So for now I will just take pictures of them.

This cannon was just to cute not to take pictures of it.