As you may or may not be aware, I am a soon-to-be-free 6th grade public school teacher. By the end of next week, I will no longer be a slave to the man (for a couple of months) but instead, will gladly be getting back to my hobbies!
Just for kicks, I uploaded some old pics I had or scanned of some shooting stuff I have enjoyed over the years.
This first picture is about ten years ago, somewhere in that neighborhood, having the opportunity to test out a buddy's vintage Thompson. Also in that pic, you can see a few more of his US military weapons I had a chance to shoot as well.
At the same shootfest, I took a picture of a friend with his M-60, shooting "rifle-style"!
I had the great joy of shooting another buddy's vintage 1944 MG42 full-auto in the prone position, running a string of 100 rounds. Wish I'd had my picture taken on "Hitler's Buzz Saw", but at least I know it was a blast!
Now, here are a few REALLY old "flashbacks" taken when I was an undergrad at Virginia Tech. My motley crew of like-minded hooligans and myself would spend "quality time" distracting ourselves from our studies on random weekends throughout the school year in a strangely cathartic manner - heading out to an abandoned coal seam to shoot up any crap we could gather up from the school dumpsters!
Most often, it would be old TV sets, stuffed animals, lawnchairs stacked high with canned beverages (empty).....you get the idea.
In this one, my buddy (just out of the Marines in 1985) is "lefty" shooting my Chinese SKS. I'm the guy in the camo jacket leaning against my old '76 Scout II.
Here's one of the crew - hard to identify the hodge-podge of weaponry we poor college kids were plugging away with that day, but yours truly is right in the middle - and holding a WW2 vintage 1911A1 in one hand, and a 1903 Springfield in the other. Fun days! This was around 1985 or maybe 1986. I graduated from VPI in the spring of 1986. What a bunch of hooligans!
I hate you guys in the free-states. 