This is a really fun event, which I had a chance to travel down from Canadaicon with Scotta few years ago. We met Brian and Tina there and had a great time. Wonderful people ...

I took some video of the opening MG shoot event, which I thought some of you guys who had never been there might enjoy. Love the way they put out those propane bottles as targets.

Besides the huge display tents with vendors selling everything and anything related to firearms, there's the massive range shoot. Attendees can pay (rent) to shoot everything from old Gatling guns, WW1 Lewis machine guns, WWII 30 and 50 caliber Browning MG's, Germanicon MG34 and MG42's, every automatic rifle you can think of, all the way through to flame throwers and artillery pieces.

Can you imagine crossing Omaha Beach against German MG42's? After you watch this, you can see that the special effects in the first 20 minutes of the move "Saving Private Ryan" aren't far off what must have been the real thing. In the pics below, I think that can of WD40 hanging off the WW1 Vickers was even dated 1917.

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