I grew up in Winchester Leadeye...
My Dad still lives on the farm 5 miles east of Winchester....
If you lived on the west side of the road you had a Winchester address, if you lived on the east side you had a Union City address....
I grew up in Winchester Leadeye...
That's another handgun I have never fired, hell I have never even seen a Desert Eagle in person....
We were shooting a small farm owned by a paratrooper about half way between Lynn and Winchester, I was doing work for Astral, the big casket company in Lynn.
I'd love to get my hands on a .50 DE. I'm just not sure I could afford to feed it.
I remember Astral, I worked for their competition, Spartan Casket for a couple years after HS...
I'd like to fire one ONCE, just so that I could say I have done it...
I have shot a 500 S&W. It's a real kick in the pants.
We shot the first rounds at a tree target made from 3/8 C channel with 3/8 plates welded to door hinges. First shot hit the swinging target so hard it ripped the hinge apart at the pin dropping the plate behind the target. The plate looked like the bullet had almost made it through so the second shot went into the C channel penetrating completely. I was shooting in Winchester Indiana so later I went up to Kent Lomont's house to show it to him. Power handguns were his game and that was the first DE he had a chance to get his hands on.
Dad and I visited him in his workshop and he demo'ed the M2 shooting from inside never saw so many florescent bulbs shatter at the same time in my life....bought my FA Uzi from him
Kent was one of those one of a kind people that I feel really lucky to have known well. The late 70's and early 80s were a great time.
Bought and sold a fair amount of NFA items from Ken. When the Group Industries BAR's first hit the market I took one up to him so he could pull it apart. We would retell a great story about meeting up at the Huntington airport just about every time we got together. I was sad to see him move out west but understood, when passed on the shooting world felt diminished.