http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd1-OhoEgpM

Our man Chris had never fired a machine gun before. Last night, he fired a full auto SCAR-H and SCAR-L. It’s a hell of a way to kick off your machine gun shooting days. You can feel the smile, even though you can’t see it. Enjoy.

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  1. Grats buddy. It’s fun isn’t it? 🙂

    Cheap MGs for yourself start at $4k now and the sky (not sccy) is the limit.

  2. Wouldn’t a more appropirate title be, “Chris Dumm Shoots an Assault Rifle for the First Time”?

    You know…practice what you preach and such.

  3. There’s no way in peace time to shoot a machine gun and not smile. Even Shannon Watt would bust into a grin.

  4. Las Vegas is THE place to do things that you’ve never done before. And what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, thanks to antibiotics.

  5. Every time I watch a friend shoot a suppressed or automatic weapon, I can’t help but wonder why people think it is so evil. What else can create that kind of grin and laugh?

    Evil my ass. Guns are fun.

  6. That’s an auto-rifle.

    The Gun Shop in Vegas had a SAW you could shoot last I was there. I real, albeit baby, machine gun.

  7. Full auto is always guaranteed to bring a smile. Even better is full auto from an armored vehicle. Heck, I always got a ‘Michael Dukakis’ smile just riding around in one.

  8. Always good to see someone get the giggle-switch cherry popped.
    It will irreversibly change your gun-buying thought process. “for just an extra 10k I could have this in FA” “maybe I just skip this one and put the money in the FA fund” “I always wanted to become an FFL, why not do it now” “All that paperwork and fees certainly are not as bad as I thought they were” “how hard could it be to become friends with the local LE’s armorer or range master”

    😉

  9. Hey, there is a club called the US military. There you can get your machine gun all you want. And its for real, not play. Just a suggestion.

  10. As Ted Nugent said the pierce “lemme see your machine gun smile” no one can resist smiling the first time the shoot one even a hoplophobe like Morgan congrats to this guy the more machine guns people shoot the more danger the Hughes ammendment is in

    • Yea a buddy of mine said almost the exact same thing about the M-2 in a humvee and his m240b, “nothing compares”.

      • Same goes for cleaning them too.

        I swear there is no harder weapon to GI than the M240. I spent a couple hours on the heat shield alone.

  12. Always wanted to, bumpfire stocks and other crap dont come close. I have a FA BCG in my AR just in case 🙂

    I never gave in and paid money for the machine gun rentals at the range for some reason, although the only time Ive really ever seen that sort of rental openly displayed was in Houston. For a first time, Id like sure to find a maxim 😀

  13. Don’t get used to it….very expensive hobby lol.

    Experiencing true full auto (not just burst) with a silencer, outdoors, is probably THE pinnacle of it all.

    • There are a lot better rifles than the Scar for him to first shoot full auto. The Scar family is a huge failure.

        • Lets see, the MK20 is a dismal piece of crap, you take your suppressor off, well you just lost your zero. The gun goes full auto all the time, not something you want out of a sniper platform. The mk 16 was a joke, and the MK17s are insanely unreliable. Its why FN replaces all broken Scars without a question free of charge, they know they put a crappy platform out. 3 out of the 7 guys who used Scars on my last deployment had them go down on a op and have to be sent out of country. I will stick with my 14, until HK417s start making it around. It is a incredibly overrated platform, especially when much better options exist and are proven. Its why you don’t ever see cag or damneck using them.

          • Ok, point. Guys I worked with in 7 weren’t shot in the ass with the 17s either. They definitely are very overhyped.

            I’ll keep my FALs.

        • Yeah, it sucks cause they are pulling our 14s away from us, and forcing the Scars. And the only guys who are going to be getting the HKs are cag and damneck. Love the FALs though, great guns.

  15. I watched the video three times to make sure of what I saw and I’d like to point out something about your technique Mr. Dumm. With a SCAR or other 5.56 platform your technique won’t hurt. But if you fire something with some recoil with the stock in your bicep it will hurt. The stock should be on your chest where your pectoral inserts into your shoulder. This video demonstrates:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMXStk7uhhs

    And what he doesn’t mention in the video is that you should be facing the target more squarely. The recoil will go into your pectoral and ribs which have few nerves.

    Best Regards,

    David

  16. I got to shoot an MP5/40 belonging to the county sheriff’s dept during my CCW class. (instructor was a deputy on the tactical team. A rare upside to police militarization) The whole thing was completely drama free. Sub machine guns are disappointingly non boner inducing. 5.56 is probably a little better, but i have heard very good things about rocking and rolling in 7.62.

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