Tubadome and Automatic Weapons

[davet]

I tried to find the Tubadome website since I live in Elkhart and wondered where Roger was going to set up shop. When I found the location I remembered that this business is just around the corner from there. http://www.midwestgunandrange.com/MachineGuns.htm

Bring lots of cash if you want to play with these toys.

BTW, I have no connection with either business. Just killing time while waiting to get my York back from Blessings.

[url] http://tubadome.com/ [url]

Dave

[Steve Inman]

It is also just about 30 miles from the Sturgis Rally.

http://www.sturgis.com/

Motorcycles, tubas and machineguns.....They have JUST ABOUT everything! I suspect you could do a search and find a magnificent Barbeque smokehouse in the neighborhood as well.

???

Tubadome & machine guns: Elkhart, Indiana

More motorcycles than you can shake a stickat: Sturgis, South Dakota

Distance from Sturgis to Elkhart, as the crow flies: 900 miles (1025 is a very rough approximation via interstate)

Either I'm very confused, or Greg is going to be very disappointed ....

Cheers,

[davet]

http://hoosierhd.com/Default.asp

http://www.northendcycle.com/

Backyard BBQ
510 W Lincoln Ave
Goshen, IN 46526

Lone Star BBQ Authentic mesquite smoked Texas barbecue. Shipshewana IN

I'm not a big fan of either of these restaurants (they're OK, but not great), but let me know when you're coming and I'll do a brisket, a pastrami, and a turkey breast. You bring the sauce and the beer!

The closest I can come to a motorcycle is my 1981 Freeway, which I hope to have on the road later today! It is licensed and a motorcycle, and I have to have a MC license to drive it!

http://www.microcar.org/carspecs/hmvfreeway.html

Greg,

I'm betting you can still find motorcycles there. If they have good BBQ and Shiner Bock, I might have to take a leave of absence and move up for a while. You in?

Doc

[Donn]

The closest I can come to a motorcycle is my 1981 Freeway, which I hope to have on the road later today! It is licensed and a motorcycle, and I have to have a MC license to drive it!

http://www.microcar.org/carspecs/hmvfreeway.html

That looks like a lot of fun, and the reported gas mileage is far better than my motorcycle. Is there room for a tuba?

[davet]

I don't know yet whether my York Monster will fit inside, but I have a vision of taking off the rear hatch and running down the road to rehearsals with the bell sticking out the back looking like a huge rocket motor.

It WON'T (sniff) be on the road today! Maybe next weekend. I have a new clutch set and oil pump to install, and the new rear brake shoes are dragging a bit.

[SRanney]

I like the photo gallery page: guns, guns, guns, guns, guns, TROUT, guns, guns, guns, guns, guns.

http://www.midwestgunandrange.com/PhotoGallery.htm

[dwaskew]

hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

[iiipopes]

Automatic Weapons

I thought these were called "compensating"...??

I think you are referring to the Cutts Compensator fitted initially to the muzzles of Tommy Guns to stabilize the barrels. Because of the automatic action, the barrels tend to rise as they are fired, decreasing accuracy. The Cutts Compensators have vents in the top of the them that direct a little bit of the detonation gasses from the round upwards to counter the tendency of the barrel to rise. It also has a tendency to damp the noise as well, giving a Tommy Gun its distinctive muzzle flash and characteristic "thump-thump-thump" sound.

I used to own a real AutoOrdinance company .22 caliber single shot version with an extended barrel to 16 inches to make it civilian street legal, complete with the ribbed barrel and front pistol grip. Even then, with the reduced caliber and being single shot, on a range it still exhibited the same characteristics, and was pretty impressive. And pretty accurate to about fifty yards. But I sold it about a dozen years ago, because even though it had a different design receiver for legal single shot auto loading only, it had a scaled down version of the same blowback auto loading mechanism, and the reciprocation of the receiver bolt would kick the barrel anyway. The pin was also hardened aluminum alloy instead of case hardened steel, and it was starting to wear, and I didn't want it to break while in my possession. Any gunsmiths out there can tell you what it does if you fire it and the pin "breaks" on you. If you had a good trigger finger to be able to hold it and fire repeatedly, it had a redesigned, and also street legal at the time, 30 round magazine, (not the drum, unfortunately) that you could set up a pretty repeated rate of fire.

I just had to: because of what it was, and because the street legal barrel was the full 16 inches, it would not fit in the stereotype violin case, but as I was cleaning it one evening I also had out my Gibson Les Paul guitar, and on a whim, set the Tommy on top of the Les Paul case. It fit perfectly, so the next day I went and purchased another used case and some foam and made my own case for it. Oh, boy did it draw looks at the range!

[ZNC Dandy]

Thats quite and assortment they have there. I wonder if they'll let me shoot my Winchester Model 70 in .375 H&H? If not, i'd love to get my hands on that Walther P90.

[TMurphy]

A friend of mine bought a Thompson that was converted to a semi-auto from a friend of his when he was still in the army. He has yet to take it to a range and fire it, though. It did come in a guitar case, which to me was about the funniest and coolest thing I've ever seen.