Easy Quiz for Gun Fans
- Thread starter Keith1
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Well Jack I guess now that's made it easy for just about everyone including the entire Inuit nation and the gun shy liberal frat who don't even have broadband...:worried: (the Inuit, not the gun shy liberals - thought I'd make that quite clear, although of course some of them actually may NOT, but I digress
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Crazy though eh? There's "collection" and there's "obsession" and I know what this is....
Ron Earp
Admin
That right there isn't enough!!!
Pat Buckley
GT40s Supporter
John Wayne?
Pat
Supporter
Actually it's tougher for those of us stateside as so many folks have something like this
Pat Buckley
GT40s Supporter
I was kidding!!
EVERYONE knows that this collection was owned by Robert Mitchum!
EVERYONE knows that this collection was owned by Robert Mitchum!
the guy with the "cold dead hands" - ex wacko NRA prez?
Back in my college days, I dated a beautiful girl for one summer. She was not interested in getting serious and introduced me to her best friend. This summer loves dad had a lot of guns and was always out of the country. They told me he was in the oil business. Later on I read an article in Argosy Magazine about a soldier of fortune who had supplied all of the guns to the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was her dad. He joined with inventor Gordon Ingram and produced a silencer for Gorden's machine guns and went on to found an armament company called M.A.C. (Millitary Armament Corp.) based out of my home town Marietta, Ga. A few summers later I worked for him in his plant and out at his farm in Macland Ga. Most will tell you it was Powder Springs Ga. but it wasn't. I know because my family owned the property before Mitch did.
Routinely the guys at the plant would have gun runs bringing the guns out to be field tested. They made 3 versions of machine guns.The MAC9, 10, &11.(.22 .45 and 9mm). They are the guns you see in a lot of modern gangster and paramilitary movies. The 22 was amazing. It could fire 1100 rounds a minute. That meant you could pull the trigger only twice to empty a 30 round clip. The 9mm had almost zero recoil. They would demonstrate it by putting the metal stock on their chin and pulling the trigger in single shot or in full automatic.
His name was Mitch Werbell,
Mitchell WerBell III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mitchell WerBell : Biography
(the video of Mitch shows the racks I built and the land around the farm where the paramilitary school and McKeachern High School was)
Our Man in Powder Springs: Mitch WerBell - The Education Forum
As I found out later Mitch was an old family friend that wasn't talked about much. A sawed off Napoleonic type with a handlebar style mustache. He had a gun room that would rival the one owned by Mr. Heston(without the door lock). I made some of the gun racks mounted on his office rock wall. Unbelievable collection.
When he would hold gun shows for foreign dignitaries(paramilitary school), I would go to the airport to pick them up, and we would show and demonstrate everything, even "the big guns". The anti tank guns and all. We would do demonstrations of their subsonic ammunition for the Car. 15 from 2 football fields away from the viewing stands. Sniper rifles based on the Rugger 22 with his son hidden in the tall grass not 50 yards away picking off Coke cans on telephone poles another 75 yards away and you could not find him. They manufactured a lot of James Bond type guns as well. Guns concealed in canes, totally automatic shotguns for the point men in Vietnam. They made the first teargas launchers. We(more they than we) even made a briefcase weapon for the .22 gun mentioned above. It fired from the brief case handle without having to raise it, as it had no recoil to speak of.
That was a wonderful summer. The one just before I divorced her best friend!!
Bill
Routinely the guys at the plant would have gun runs bringing the guns out to be field tested. They made 3 versions of machine guns.The MAC9, 10, &11.(.22 .45 and 9mm). They are the guns you see in a lot of modern gangster and paramilitary movies. The 22 was amazing. It could fire 1100 rounds a minute. That meant you could pull the trigger only twice to empty a 30 round clip. The 9mm had almost zero recoil. They would demonstrate it by putting the metal stock on their chin and pulling the trigger in single shot or in full automatic.
His name was Mitch Werbell,
Mitchell WerBell III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mitchell WerBell : Biography
(the video of Mitch shows the racks I built and the land around the farm where the paramilitary school and McKeachern High School was)
Our Man in Powder Springs: Mitch WerBell - The Education Forum
As I found out later Mitch was an old family friend that wasn't talked about much. A sawed off Napoleonic type with a handlebar style mustache. He had a gun room that would rival the one owned by Mr. Heston(without the door lock). I made some of the gun racks mounted on his office rock wall. Unbelievable collection.
When he would hold gun shows for foreign dignitaries(paramilitary school), I would go to the airport to pick them up, and we would show and demonstrate everything, even "the big guns". The anti tank guns and all. We would do demonstrations of their subsonic ammunition for the Car. 15 from 2 football fields away from the viewing stands. Sniper rifles based on the Rugger 22 with his son hidden in the tall grass not 50 yards away picking off Coke cans on telephone poles another 75 yards away and you could not find him. They manufactured a lot of James Bond type guns as well. Guns concealed in canes, totally automatic shotguns for the point men in Vietnam. They made the first teargas launchers. We(more they than we) even made a briefcase weapon for the .22 gun mentioned above. It fired from the brief case handle without having to raise it, as it had no recoil to speak of.
That was a wonderful summer. The one just before I divorced her best friend!!
Bill
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Hey, really good story Bill. Thanks. My life now seems a touch boring.
Pat Buckley
GT40s Supporter
Agreed -thanks for sharing, Bill.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Keith, I think he drove a chariot.
Hehehe... I like it. I'm 100% with you on that!
Oh, and I second the motion - Im going for the guy in the chariot too!
That's one hell of a gun collection. As a kid I lived in a small town in Ct., a guy named Pete Kuhloff the gun editor for Argosy lived there in an old saltbox colonial on 40 acres. Everytime he wrote an article on a gun, he was given the gun by the manufacturer. He had a pretty extensive collection of varied weapons. He had a 12'x16' room with Colt pistols in glass covered cases on the walls. Each time Colt manufactured a new pistol they would send him the same serial number. I can't remember how many there were, but atleast 50, all the same serial number. He had a 600 Nitro Express, 900 grain, 2050 fps, over 8000 ft lbs at the muzzel, incredible stopping power and recoil. He and a friend had 100 yard+ fields with a woodchuck at the far end. They both had small cannons on a wheeled base with 30" barrels and about 2" bores. They had a $100 bet (in 1957) who would be the first to get their woodchuck. It went on for quite a while, neither were too good with the cannon, it sure did get the woodchuck's attention though.
When I first left the Army, I was working for a pool builder. He had a client that owned a house in Tampa that was unique at the time. About 6000Sq Ft and only one bedroom, helicopter pad on the roof, and a turret tower that had a swimming pool in the bottom and an observation room in the top of the tower. On his walls were glass cases covering the entire wall of every type of weapon that I had ever seen including a M79 Grenade launcher with an assortment of rounds like we used in Nam. I was flabergasted that a civilian could get his hands on these weapons but this guy had some serious connections. I never knew what he did for a living, but upon later reflections he was probably heavy into the Florida drug trade. Hestons collection is something to see though.
Garry
Garry
