Best birthday weekend ever

**DarthChicken** · January 15, 2012, 09:10 PM

My wife, without me knowing, was able to plan a get together for me, with my friends. At the local gun range. My dad and I go about every 2 to 3 weeks, so when he called mid week and said 1pm saturday, I didn't think much about it. Sure, my birthday was Thursday, but he sent a card, good enough.

Being it was my 40th, I wanted to do something special. So I had planned to rent a machine gun at the range. Hell, why not.. they have them there, and something I'd never done before. One more for the bucket list, right?

I get to the range, and there is Bolus, Jeff Perrin, and 7 other friends standing there

I hadn't seen some of these guys in a couple years.. having two kids back to back, along with working basically 12 hour days for the last two years has put a serious strain on some friendships. But they were all there, most with guns in hand. Sweet!

We all shot for a while, trading guns now and then, and then my dad walks me down to a shooting station about 3 down from where I am. Oh crap.. an M-15 converted to full auto, in 9mm. 32 round clips, and 250 rounds of ammo. Have at it

I could never pull off more than about a 2 second burst before the gun was trying to find somebody elses target.. aim low and left, touch the trigger, and 6-8 rounds leave the gun. About 2 clips in, I had a piece of brass drop into my shooting glasses, and sit there and burn (braze? brand?) my cheek. Here I am, unfamiliar gun, dancing around trying to get this hot iron off my skin, LOL. I have a nice welt on my face now. War wound I guess

The other magazines went off without a hitch, just a long time between them, it takes a while to load up that many, lol.

I don't talk about my wife much, but.. she rules. I had an atom.. I'm buying a DP2.. she sets up trips to the shooting range (and she HATES guns)... she just keeps putting up with me, year after year.

**AtomJohnny** · January 16, 2012, 01:05 AM

Cool and Happy Birthday for the 12th.

Mine was on Friday 13th. I didn't go shooting. In fact if I turned up somewhere and my friends were holding guns I'd be a bit worried.

But I did get a car experience gift voucher from two of my kids so I can take a Lambo for a blast around a race track. I've loved Lambos since I was at school. Those two of yours might seem hard work while they are so little but they can pay back what you invest in them by the spade full. (I don't mean in material terms)

I also bought myself a gift on Saturday. Leather seats, 5.7L, 335HP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZ_Commodore

edit: Same car is rebadged for US market as a Pontiac G8

**MadMaxAtom** · January 16, 2012, 04:20 AM

You're a very lucky person DC to have found such a great companion. The one thing money can't buy is true friendship.

**bolus** · January 16, 2012, 08:01 AM

who would think I could legally shoot an automatic machine gun a few blocks from my house? I love that the safety video consisted of youtube clips of people accidentally shooting themselves.