{"id":28731,"date":"2024-05-05T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=28731"},"modified":"2024-05-04T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T01:28:21","slug":"camera-girl-guns-and-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/camera-girl-guns-and-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera Girl, Guns and Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, today Camera Girl and I attended a gun show.\u00a0 Well, no.\u00a0 The guy there told me it wasn\u2019t a gun show.\u00a0 And it was described as a Shooting, Outdoor, and Military Expo.\u00a0 And he was right there was other stuff for sure.\u00a0 They had World War II vintage trucks and jeeps and lots of veterans were there like the guys from the Geronimo Foundation who had details of the reenactments they do of D-Day and other paratrooper deployments.<\/p>\n

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There was a lot of interesting things besides guns.\u00a0 For instance, what the heck is this?\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it made a lot of noise and blew up a lot of stuff but what is it called?<\/p>\n

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But there were a lot of guns, so to me it was a gun show.<\/p>\n

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There were all kinds of antique guns and there were a lot of rifles from the World Wars.\u00a0 But there were also countless modern weapons that ran the gamut from hunting rifles to self-defense to just enthusiast favorites.\u00a0 I think most of the machine guns were from World War II but being completely uninformed I couldn\u2019t really say for sure.<\/p>\n

But I got a whole load of shots mostly with my Voigtl\u00e4nder 10mm f\/5.6 manual focus lens.\u00a0 In tight spaces such a wide-angle lens helps out.\u00a0 Of course, the manual focus aspect is not so helpful but it was still manageable.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be processing all the files and then I\u2019ll add them to the Photo of the Day rotation to give everyone a break from my close-up documentation of my corner of Dunwich.<\/p>\n

And I had some very interesting conversations with the denizens.\u00a0 One fellow was Vietnam era Army and he was telling about his time on the logistical side of that war.\u00a0 He said that if someone made a requisition for any kind of supply it had to be provided.\u00a0 One day someone came in and ordered three helicopters.\u00a0 And they had to provide them!<\/p>\n

Well, it was a very interesting time and I enjoyed it.\u00a0 But I\u2019m still as ignorant of gun knowledge as I was before I entered the hangar (it was at an airport).\u00a0 I asked Camera Girl if she wanted to try the helicopter ride that was available.\u00a0 She gave me a very squinky look and I let it go.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been meaning to get a gun for the house for a long time.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only delayed this long because Camera Girl has Sicilian blood on her mother\u2019s side and providing her with a firearm always seemed like stretching my luck.\u00a0 But now that we saw so many exciting choices, who knows.\u00a0 Some of the young guys at the show were playing around with guns that had the light or laser aiming assist.\u00a0 Suddenly I had the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger showing up at the compound and I thought maybe I\u2019m better off building a panic room instead.\u00a0 Well, maybe I should do both.\u00a0 After all, in the upcoming cannibal interregnum you can\u2019t have too many precautions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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