First (and so far only) time I shot some full-auto guns ... it was a blast! I was firing a nice .308 heavy barrel rifle ... shooting 10 shot strings w/ various handloads seeing what was the smallest average group I could produce. Wonderful rifle.
About that time a many pulls up, drives his car out of the parking lot and up behind the benches (not supposed to do that sort of thing) and parks. Opens the trunk and out comes a Browning .30 aircooled w/ WWII era tripod, a AK-47 and a M-16. Since the range was at that point clear, we went down and set up some targets. I put up paper. He set out milk jugs of ice. Put some on out beyond the 100 yd. line. When the range went hot, he started blasting and I went back to shooting till I was out of ammo.
About the time I was loading my stuff up, that gentleman held the AK-47 out and asked if I'd like to shoot it. All of a sudden I didn't need to load the car. Enjoyed getting to shoot the Ak ... which was not so impressive as I'd expected. Out to 50 yds., it'd do real well. Not hard to get hits on FA, in spite of the face that at that point that was the first rifle I'd ever fired on FA. At 100 yds. the jugs were hittable of FA ... but it took some fiddling. Beyond that ... it was hit or miss. The M-16 was just easy to use. Hits were not hard on FA at any distance even on a bit beyond 100 yds. Very easy to control. Easy to shoot good bursts. The Browning .30 was outstanding. He had a belt of M-2 that he had not fired. He showed me how to load the gun. Then all I can say is J.M.B. really knew how to come up with a very good .30 machine gun! It was very easy to get it to run well. It was easy to get good down range results on the metal plates, etc. Fellow would not let me pay him for the ammunition. Even decent M-2 was affordable back then. I bought 400 rd. cans of Korean PS-75 stamped M-2 for $80/delivered. Still, that man let me shoot probably $40-50 of ammunition in his guns. It was a real hoot! Sincerely. bruce.
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