Bi-annually you can head 20 minutes down Dixie Highway and check out the adrenaline fulfillment known as the Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot. The other 50 weekends of the year Knob Creek is just a gun range but on these two magical weekends all hell breaks loose.

The event is dedicated to the modern marvel known as the machine gun. Everywhere you look, there is something that will make you think, ‘damn, that’s awesome!’

When you first arrive, you will spend a large chunk of your time just going through the vendor tents before you ever get to the horny stuff. Anything gun related, you can find it here. But I didn’t come here to barter with merchants. I came to get my carnage fix that could have only been provided one other place, the Vietnam war.

It was about 5 o’clock when Hell’s gates opened and the ability to hear quickly diminished. This is when “the line” began to fire several machine guns simultaneously at targets (such as cars, boats and school buses) in a holler already packed full of explosives. The sky turned black.

All of this fury was unleashed after a prayer over the loudspeaker and the signing of the National Anthem of course (God bless the South).

The thing I looked most forward to doing was the Jungle Run. The Jungle Run is a Rambo style free-for-all target competition through the woods. This is where I suffered due to my failure of researching big events in advance. Apparently you have to be there at 9AM at the latest to even get registered for this thing. So unfortunately, my roommate and my hopes of running through the woods blasting away like we are in Contra is going to have to wait until April.

I hear if you pay enough money, you can hop in a helicopter that will fly you above the wood’s trenches while you shoot the chopper’s turret at prearranged explosives. This is only further mayhem that I will plan more meticulously in the future.

It was at this point my roommate and I decided to head back to the Jeep when what do you know, there’s a Vietnam Huey just a football field’s distance away. So of course we hopped in and gave it hell!