Memories of Florida June - 2022..:Machine Gun America"

[Mark Silvester]

Hi all,

as mentioned previously...just returned from a trip to Florida...postponed over 3 years...due to Thomas Cook going under and then Covid.

I've been many times and despite having many good friends in the USA...it was a let down..the tourist area is "skidding" along on its "bare bones"...anyway... this completely "genuine" sign I took a picture of only just a week ago...well...

"Machine Gun America...Fun for the Whole Family"

What do you think? Someone even offered to take me to a "shoot all" you can day at another "family friendly" gun range...it reminded me of "RoboCop" in its cynicism?

take care

[Mike Newell]

Machine Gun America sounds fun 🤩. What could possibly go wrong? Take it must be light calibre or you would have one hell of a sore shoulder.

My Dad acquired a Thompson machine gun in mid 1960s (war surplus) and he was into shooting. He planned to fast track rabbit shooting on a cousins farm. Unfortunately, by the time they mastered the gun they had run out of ammunition and couldn’t get anymore. The rabbits 🐰 were safe. They scarped after the 1st blast.

[Osi Osgood]

It is incredibly fast to actually skin a rabbit. A had a neighbor many years ago, that had a hutch full O rabbits. I watched while, one Saturday morning, he happily sang, " Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail ", as he quickly skinned a whole hutch of Rabbits! I don't know which was funnier ... Him singing that as he did the skinning, or the more panicked looking rabbits in the hutch with each one taken from the hutch.

[Mike Newell]

Yes, memories of eating light brown chicken 🐔 which was rabbit 🐇. When we discovered the truth I was amazed how quick my Mum could skin a rabbit. Memories of little brother running around with one on his head pretending it was a Davy Crockett coonskin.