Anyway, on to pics and vids!(Note, not all are mine, some transferred from the pic thread on the gun forum)
My Brother and I setting up. I'm the one in the long brown coat.

Bro and his Mosin 91-30. Yes, that's a bayonet. It hangs off the right side of the barrel. Mosins were actually sighted-in at the factory with the bayonet affixed, so if you fire without it, your shot goes a bit left. With the bayo on, it's as accurate as any modern rifle. Fires 7.62x54R.

My Bro firing his "new" Steyr M95/30. King of the shoulder-thumpers, it's a lightweight carbine that fires one of the more powerful rifle rounds of the World Wars, the 8x56mmR. Firing it is like getting hit in the shoulder with a hammer. Unfortunately, we could only scrounge up 20 rounds of this rare ammo, and the gun's sights are so far off we couldn't even spot where the rounds were landing. The perils of buying old military rifles.

The "giggle gun", an Ingram MAC10. The guy who brought it had barrels for 9mm and .45ACP

Firing .45ACP

Japanese Arisaka.

Shooting a Steyr M95 through a chronometer just offscreen.

Full 10th Mountain drag with skis.

Turns out, firing an M1 while on skis causes you to scoot backwards almost two feet...lol

The firing line during a cease-fire.

Mosin-Nagant model 91-30 sniper, rare bird, if it was an original. The scope is close, but not the right one, and the gun was not originally a sniper. He lucked into finding the right bolt and scope mount, though. Behind it is a U.S. M1A.

This is what I mean about thirty people bringing a hundred guns. That rack belongs to one guy...
Can't name all the guns, but they include several Mosins, a couple of British Lee-Enfields, an SKS, a Garand, and several I don't recognize.

An unusual one, a Russian PPSh-41 with the longer barrel you have to install to import it into the U.S.. Awesome sub-machine gun. Commonly called the "papasha".

For the life of me, I can't remember the name of this one. Yes, the platter on top is the magazine. The bullets all face to the center, and the spring loaded follower pushes them around and down to the receiver. Unfortunately, he was having trigger issues and packed it in early.

SKS

Some carnage. One of the guys runs a chimney sweep company that also does fire suppression work. These are old extinguishers that failed inspection.




They had this one in close, popping it with the MAC10. They pushed it about 15 feet back from where it was set down...

A random snow angel right in front of the firing line...lol

The Gong. It looks like an old tank cap, about 18" across and 1" thick, solid plate steel. They hang it at the 150yd line. At that distance, it appears roughly the size of a pin-head at arms length. I was hitting it four times out of five with iron sights on the 91-30. A couple guys did better, but the thing is cursed hard to pick up against the scrub on the berm behind it,and someone hit the cord that was holding it straight. Even so, about every 20 seconds, you'd hear a "ding" from downrange.

Of course, no milsurp shoot is complete without firing a rifle grenade...(Don't worry, it's a practice dummy)
He only had parade blanks to fire it with, rather than the much more powerful blanks intended for it. The real thing would have knocked him over and punted the grenade past the last berm.


A Browning .30cal machine-gun, converted for civilian-legality. The mechanism is modified to be semi-auto-only, and a crank is added to pull the trigger about 6 times per revolution. Strange, but it works.

It also took home the prize for "Strangest Malfunction of the Day". :eek2: Can anyone can figure out what happened here? Hint, nothing was wrong with the round, just the gun.
