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Hello, so I came up here to drive tanks. Yep to
Drive a tank and we did some really cool video shot some artillery pieces. Very cool and
Behold you work here. I knew I do. I've been working here for almost three years and that was really cool. Yeah
Yeah, we first met on the suit the set of that one TV show. Yeah, we shall not speak its name. Yeah, yeah
Do I get to take credit for shutting it down? I was okay. Very last episode really
No, no, you guys might have filmed some more of them that never got air, honestly
I left about six months a year before, you know finished filming, so I'm not delicious
Like good credit. Yeah. Yeah. I got all kinds of calls from your friends of mine
They're like, how does it feel to be a genius?
And you talked about you quitted the exact right time
Couldn't really argue. It's all as cool as as I understand it your audition to that show. It's like
Rebuilding mg42 from I chopped up parts to well. It was kind of a TV thing. But yeah, I had a
42 I had a HK 53 that I built from a hk33 parts kit. So that was cool that were in gun
That's what every welding is take some serious talent like not just any Randolph. The street can be well 242 receive
No, it's not. It's not easy
I mean if you if you work at it long enough, you can get it down pretty well
But you seem to have found a pretty cool niche here
Yeah, rebuilding artillery and machine guns for like an SOT rental, right? Yeah, as far as a gunsmith these jobs go
This one doesn't suck man
Can I tell people it's sitting on the table? Yeah. Yeah, there's a TV receiver over there and the process of being rebuilt
There's a danger of receiver. Great. Well, not just anything. You're out vena
DShK resume for over there in the process of being reboots. We'll go on their t-72 lose it get it. Alright, so
There's a bunch of artillery. Yeah, some of it built into tanks some of it standalone guns
Yeah, what like what goes in the batter stuff how hard is it to actually own and shoot that sort of thing
It's it's not real difficult technically three we're upside
I do a lot of explosive like since all that stuff so you can get that
Fairly easily. It's expensive and you have to actually have a purpose for it. You can't just say hey
yeah, okay to take ten top, but
Realistically anybody can own the guns and same paperwork is Professor 24 or a form one if you're making it yourself
Where they get you is the artillery powder that's needed to actually shoot it the artillery powder
It basically makes you have an Fe else. It's clear. No explosive Lexa's. Okay, that sounds like a lot more
Yeah, it's you gotta really want to do it. But having said that I know a bunch of friends of mine like a
75 pack I Alan and a bunch of other different guns thirty-sevens stuff like that and they own the explosive license
It's not difficult. It's just another level of a
Government intrusion you have to put up with okay
No, there's got to be some level at which you don't actually have to deal with right are there powder?
older black-powder cannons are it like
I'm not real familiar with I'm pretty sure you wouldn't fel
But I'm not sure if you're doing the level needed to thanks me to them
I don't know if that requires that be all or no. Okay, how dangerous is this?
Oh mess it up, it'll kill you no doubt no doubt at all and there's been past
Past happens as people getting killed, you know, I accidentally like to various loading so you got to be real careful
We've got a real employment with that stuff and we take great pains to make sure our loads are safe
Our guns are safe. Lets me and you
Know everybody has fun out here
Okay
What's like if someone wants to get into owning a gun and learning how to load for acquiring ammunition for it without loading themselves?
Yeah, who do you how do you learn this stuff? Where you go?
You know, it's just like I tell people there's the gun people the machine gun people then there's artillery people - there's tank people
It's a smaller community the more you get into it
So once you get into it, you kind of know everybody who's involved with it. So there are some people out there
I'm not gonna mention their names
I don't know they want me to or not
but there are some people out there who to help you get into all of this stuff and
Honestly, we couldn't do this without them as well. Okay, so really is a community there's no yeah
Yeah, there's no like formal sort of resource thing. It's you know the guys
Yeah, Bob's Joe and Joe dues can
Basically, hey Nana, you know Ken's got a tank for sale. Okay, cool
Bob's got a lot barrel and Joe's got like reaching made it all together now owning it tanked oddly enough
It's attractive bill of sale. No big deal
Okay, this is the OMA that'll I've gone on and put al I've gone on in the contacts
We've DP so that changes a little bit
Yeah
How many of these things are floating right nothing more than you think man?
I mean I couldn't give you an exact number but this there's a lot of stuff out there
It's it's really amazing how much stuff has been saved throughout time and it obviously makes me pretty happy man
Because I mean this stuff I ain't gonna lie man. It's a hoot to shoot. I mean it really a lot of fun
So I feel like the pack 40 or the deep winning or something like that
They really thought you in the chest with the fire. Yeah. So, um
Well, that was a long answer to question. But there's a lot of stuff up and I guess one of the nice things is
Everyone everyone thinks about the machine gun registry being closed the destructive device registry is not yeah
That's why they open so you can manufacture of retrains for things
Well have the appropriate license you can you can manufacture a breech ring. But so you say you have a cut breech ring
I don't recommend putting a breech ring that's been cut together in fire, you know, cuz just not a smart idea, you know
It's the pressures in the world
Everything's got to be perfect
Otherwise you run the risk of a detonation with the whole system and that's bad so I don't recommend anybody
Three manufactory of restraint but having said that there are briefings out there for whatever particular kind of gun
Usually that you want, okay
All right
Not sure what else - do you have a favorite cannon?
You know, I gotta be honest. I like the pak40 a lot. I kind of really do. It's
You know most other guns big guns when you shoot them
it's like a nice little push like the Sherman is a
Really big nice little push the Pak 40 is like being kick to the chest. It's a really neat experience
I really is fucking around one of those shoot. Yeah, it certainly is. Yeah, that's it. So it's just a
Devastating weapon on both ends of it, you know Isis, so that's that's probably my favorite big
Okay, probably a lot fewer that sort of thing in actual like ownership and use than the smaller guns like 30s, there's one
That's right out there. Really only one. Yeah
What about are there others? I sue mning that when you get if you're talking like 25 and 37
It's probably a lot more of that there is 75 90 105. Well, it's a lot more user friendly, man
If I take the 36 pack out three point seven pack out then all I get it. I can do it by myself, basically
It's not that hard but the pack 40 and it takes accrued and that's what that really does and a trailer to move it
Exact well, we could actually haul it out in the back of the home. Don't raise it down little brother
It's a short road. So we just cruise out to the road our firing position
Okay, I was about to say most people don't live within a quarter mile of an artillery shooting range
But then again the people who own artillery
Maybe I'll have friend them do that's the big thing with artillery. Everybody's like. Oh, there's one tank which we have one person
But yes to deal with it everybody's like I want a tank. I want on artillery. I want this stuff
Well, if you ever tried to shoot in a 50 Cal just a regular 50 caliber range
You'll know that a lot of ranges. Don't let you shoot regular 50 cattle here, maybe two or something like that
So you bring like a pack 40 out of their range. They're gonna lose their mind. It's a single gun
Right slope slow to fire you think okay. It's not even send me off
but realistically you have to you really have to be in the know when you're shooting this stuff because you can't just
Launch a 15 pound projectile into space. And yeah, you know, it's fun shot a pack into the air came down to who knows where?
Is there a typical solution for people is there are like never you drive things? Okay
Oh
Do most people who own them have access to private land or there a couple specific dedicated areas that well
There's Hillary's and like you can sometimes can work out at Knob Creek ability to bring smarty big
Sandy is a big one. Of course you that's a big RT shooting. There's a lot of guys bringing this stuff out there
other than that man, that's I
Got no good words for you all the legacy because like I said, you gotta have a good backdrop
we use basically the cut off side of a mountain and then we're good and my understanding is you get also owned the property like
Three miles down, right? So even if something goes way over the berm. Yeah, it's still not a problem. It's not a problem
We we got people running around the ranch. We're located on the Ox pentagrams, right?
So we got people running around the ranch not behind what we're shooting obviously when we shoot
But we don't want a long-term 15 problems projectile in this space and right
That's just bad too - yeah for sure. I suspect a lot of these are guns the bitch shot
That's a year exam or something. Most people's. Yeah, most people's arts. I mean the Sherman last year. We shot it
450 times Wow, which is basically more than they'd shoot in the combat. Yeah
It makes sense you've got to care for em, and you've got a lot of people coming through their interest today
Yeah, we thought about what that volume adds up to good. It's it's pretty significant
Like we have a 105 howitzer up on a hill and we basically shoot from built optical top
It's direct fire, but it's you know, no top of the hill. We don't shoot anything - indirect fire
We want to know where it goes, right but uh that one we shoot more than the term
We shoot the hell out of that thing, man. What's that there? We'll life on something like this. I'll let you know
Okay, so far everything's been good more than 107 are timeless. Yeah, exactly
Um, we do have a little bit of throat erosion on the Sherman so far students still great
So we're not we're not gonna mess with it now, uh the 105
Jerry I mean this is great food great condition shoots great. So it's still going strong. Can you get replacement barrels?
Retail or can find a barrel and something tell know we do have replacement girls already with you. Okay spend money. Yeah
All right. Well very cool. Yeah minute. It was a really nice surprise to ready. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, but
If you guys want to come out here and shoot some artillery shoots machine guns drive some tanks. Mm-hmm
It's a really darn cool setup and they've got a lot of neat stuff
So I'll have a link to the website in the description text below drive tanks comm check them out. Thanks for watching