Last time Ian was up we spent quite a lot of time shooting footage for a promotional video I’ve really wanted to see involving Ian’s Vickers gun and a trick rifle target. And it came out BEAUTIFULLY!
Go watch it, and then come back and I’ll tell you a funny* story Ian doesn’t want you to hear. 🙂
You back? Okay. You’ll notice that all the bits with the Vickers came out great. But the vid was really supposed to be about the target, not the gun, and in the end there’s not all that much about the target in the video**.
That’s because our backstop was only a fifty-foot cliff. Notice how that target is spring-loaded and leans backward under a full-auto blast? Well…
(clears throat)
We got phone calls.
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*It’s funny now…
**Let it be said that the target worked perfectly, even under sustained automatic fire. It’s just…well…sustained automatic fire might not be the best possible application unless you have a very tall backstop.
Did you tell the the complainers, “No blood, no foul”?
No. We told the complainer (singular) “Sorry! Sorry! We’ll stop immediately!” And then we did.
You made me guffaw, sir! Details!
Going to hang that target upside down the next time?
Hell, no. It weighs a ton.
Very cool video. I’ll bet that charging handle has damaged more than a few fingers and other body parts. I can see the need for a manual method for clearing jams but I’d think it would be a lot less dangerous for the operator if that thing didn’t cycle like it does on every shot.
OK, I’ll be the guy who offers the unsolicited advice.
Next time, mount the target right back against the face of the cliff and somehow (?) cobble together a steel horizontal shield to mount just above the target to catch the errant ricochets. Somehow.
Unsolicited advice is noticeably short on details.
😉