Fully automatic

Last weekend, my dad invited me to go shooting with him; he had been invited by a friend of his who is involved with firearms in a big way (so is my dad for that matter). So I went along, and got to shoot some really interesting weapons.

Star of the show was a WW1 Vickers machine gun, mounted on tripod. Lovely weapon: just point it where you want, pull the trigger, and it pours out a stream of bullets into your aiming point.

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All the automatic gunfire attracted a group of policemen at the range next to ours; they came by, drooled a lot, and had a go too. We went through several thousand rounds of ammo, I reckon; it was left over from a "corporate day" held by an investment bank.

A day to remember.