"GOT BULLETS?" THE KNOB CREEK MACHINE GUN SHOOT IS A BANG-UP WAY TO START THE DAY!

I got up early this morning and went to the Knob Creek Machine-Gun Shoot which is held in West Point, Kentucky each April and October. This is the same shoot that has been featured on the History Channel with R. Lee Ermey (Gunny) hosting. You can go to Youtube and check out this year and previous years' shoots by searching for 'Knob Creek' or 'machine gun shoot'. There are some decent video clips available, especially some of the night-shoot videos.I am posting a slide show of some of the pictures I took this morning and a couple of short videos as well. This was a blast!!! Literally.

Did you ever watch the movie, 'Predator' with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura and Carl Weathers? Remember the scene where they are shooting all of their weapons into the jungle at the Predator? Alright. Imagine that scene. . . with the chain-gun and the grenade launchers, and everything else, but NO JUNGLE! That is the Knob Creek Shoot! It's awesome! In fact, if you mute or pause the music on the music player at the bottom of the page and play the videos, you will actually hear the chain-gun (minigun) in the background. It sounds like a lawnmower and is firing upwards of 60 rounds per second.

This shoot is attended by thousands of visitors from across the country, Canada, Mexico and overseas. I spent a lot of time watching a multitude of machine-guns being shot on the firing line and browsing through the exhibits in the adjacent gun show. I waited for about 45 minutes for my chance to shoot the 'Quad .50'. This is a dual set of tandem mounted .50 cal machine guns (for a total of four) mounted on a heavy-duty, shock absorbing transom that fire in synchronization. It was worth the wait and the twenty bucks I had to fork over. I almost felt guilty spending twenty dollars to shoot a machine gun. . . until I watched some dude from California plop down a cashier's check for $40,000.00 to buy an 1877 Bulldog Gatling gun. 'Cha-ching'. There is a photo of it in this post.