A Guided Tour of the Big Guns at the Big Sandy Shoot
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The October 2018 Big Sandy Shoot saw the largest turn out of big guns on record. Robert Bigando, AKA "Dangerous Bob" gave us a tour of the nearly two dozen big guns on display at the event.
The Big Sandy Shoot is a biannual event that takes place near Wikieup, Arizona, in April and October of each year. The event attracts hundreds of shooters, machine guns and large caliber guns. The most recent shoot was held from October 20 to 22, 2017. It saw the largest turn out of big guns in the event's 30 year history. This included the largest civilian owned gun - the 152mm Russian D20 howitzer.
These guns are owned by big gun enthusiasts such as Bigando. He bought his first 20mm when he was only 20 years old. In fact, he had to wait until he was 21 to be able transfer it to himself. It didn't take long for him to go from the 20mm, to a 25mm, to a 57mm, to a 90mm and so on. Bigando is now a sought after expert in the domain. He had three guns at Big Sandy, and worked on many of the others.
According to Bigando, owning a big gun is very similar to owning a machine gun in terms of both paperwork and cost. "A good Bofors gun can probably be picked up for $25,000." he said. "So you got to ask yourself, what would you rather have? An M-16, or a 37mm Bofors?"
Which gun would you rather have?
Video by Ben Philippi.
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Not showing the hit from the 152mm gun should be considered a crime against humanity!
@floflo8018
5 жыл бұрын
somewhere behind the dust cloud!!
@pawetomkowicz7583
5 жыл бұрын
Hit to your house I understande?
@nmspy
5 жыл бұрын
It was Russian, detonation was probably blinding
@acuramattb4525
5 жыл бұрын
Is this a similar version of the gun in the kv-2?
@caro7048
5 жыл бұрын
@@acuramattb4525 lol no
seeing a man and his wife sit on a canon like that and shoot toghether is the most american thing i have ever seen.
@torben6137
3 жыл бұрын
apart from them not beeing fat enough :-D
@davecrupel2817
3 жыл бұрын
We can all only hope to be like them. ^minud what this jackass says.
@davefellhoelter3299
3 жыл бұрын
Amen! Then that night "her" son burnt his hands on a Mini Gun's glowing barrels, now that is Good Stuff, can't make it up! True, I was there, gave the boy a cold soda to hold, as Mom pointed and laughed, telling him "that will learn you!" don't touch "things" that aren't yours!
@alexanderkruse5715
3 жыл бұрын
@@davefellhoelter3299 lmao
@jesuschrist2284
Жыл бұрын
Nah, the utter disdain for the multiple mass shootings that occur each week is the most Americans thing i know of. Americans are simply more murderous than other nations. Exceptionalism at its finest.
I am 14 and that kid in the blue shirt was my brother, me and him went there for for my Make a Wish! I loved the 152 Soviet! Huge gun nut! I love the history and mechanics behind them!
@angelop.3803
6 жыл бұрын
Kirigaya Kazuto “make a wish” what health issue do you have?
@panzerfaust5046
6 жыл бұрын
Anime, Anime is his disease.
@user-zm8gp1ze7p
6 жыл бұрын
Panzer Faust I hate SAO, but sadly yes, I have caught this deadly bug
@panzerfaust5046
6 жыл бұрын
My sincere condolences to your family.
@user-zm8gp1ze7p
6 жыл бұрын
Panzer Faust thank you, I am in stage 6, but have not begun to buy merchandise or posters. I fear this will come soon, and my wallet will suffer...
Disneyland for guys
@hanswurst9700
5 жыл бұрын
Edward Leung For Rich guys!!
@aitortilla5128
5 жыл бұрын
For retarded guys of course
@edbo10
5 жыл бұрын
+Aitor Tilla lol someone's butthurt
@ignorantethan656
5 жыл бұрын
you mean for *MEN*
@birbotheturbo1997
5 жыл бұрын
Aitor Tilla awwww, u sad, why? You sound pissed, like you hate guns
Rest of the world. "Why do you need these guns". Americans. "For home protection".
@hansmuller1175
3 жыл бұрын
need some protection against all these looters xD
@neogextreme_
3 жыл бұрын
to compensate for a lack of penis
@coreoncrack
3 жыл бұрын
Murica!!! I agree, they are very cool, but that have no place in civilIans hands, same with the m16 for that matter!
@kokodayo5796
3 жыл бұрын
I need that 152mm for home defense
@memeagain1762
3 жыл бұрын
Im not gonna act like my guns are for defense they're just sum good fucking fun
My father was a 3" gunner and later gun commander with the 630th TD Battalion in Europe in WWII. He got all his confirmed tank-kills with the 3". The battalion later (early '45') was equipped with M36s with the 90mm. Would love to get a close look at that gun!! Super!!
All civilians need a little artillery.
@genericusername6644
5 жыл бұрын
Joel Threatt Welcome to ammunation! Get 50% of your anti aircraft gun with any purchase. This Saturday only.
@chrisholland483
5 жыл бұрын
Line up line up get your 5000mm ammo for your biggest boy
@setesh1294
5 жыл бұрын
I want a fully functioning M4A3(105) HVSS. but lo, I doubt any exist.
@midgetman4206
5 жыл бұрын
@@setesh1294 a sherman? Look man, give me the money and I can build you one (in the near future, after I establish my company)
@setesh1294
5 жыл бұрын
@@midgetman4206 how much would you charge?
To put the sheer power of the 152mm gun into perspective. It fires a 6 inch, 46-56kg high explosive projectile with or without a ballistic cap (anti-concrete rounds), with dedicated armour piercing and HEAT rounds being developed after WW2. The explosive blast yield alone was enough to knock out all of the German "big cats" (Tiger, Panther, King Tiger, etc...) with a direct hit. It was so monstrously powerful that it would crack them wide open, dislodge turrets, and create such a massive spalling effect inside the tank that it was nearly impossible to survive. It effectively earned the Russian tank destroyers that mounted it the name "beast killer". I would not want to be anywhere near the shell blast of one of those.
@Leatherface123.
Жыл бұрын
Imagine being the poor soul hit by the 183mm
when I was in vietnam, used to stand behind our sell-propel 155mm guns and watch them fired into the DMZ, you could see the rounds take off and disappear in the distance, awesome sight.
@gavinschulte3017
6 жыл бұрын
When I was in nam my buddies and I would take turns sucking each other off. Great times
@lukemillen7486
6 жыл бұрын
gavin schulte name checks out
@rodrigjose
6 жыл бұрын
Gavin must of been in the army
@BeardChest
5 жыл бұрын
Sell-propel is the shizzl my man! I can imagine it must have felt good to know one of those suckers was about to give the zipperheads a care-package
@earlwright3613
5 жыл бұрын
rodrigjose thank you for your service, my dad was in ahn Khe , Vietnam 66-67
once I find one of the 88 mm german FLAC barrel in small village near the Volgograd Russia as a part of the old fence. Local population use mashinegunse, rifles, and cannon barrels as construction materias without wood supplice after the war.
@op3819
5 жыл бұрын
Михаил Поляков что реально?? За это время пушки сгнить должны были.
"Same basic paperwork as owning a machine gun" In New Zealand basic paperwork gets you a Honda Civic lol
@seanhiatt6736
4 жыл бұрын
Actually machine guns (full auto weapons) are really expensive, so not very many people own them, and the rules on them are strict
@MrLeo7627
4 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha , thats funny
@Hawkeye0918
4 жыл бұрын
You just cross out "Honda Civic" and write in "Artillery Gun"
and I moan at the cost of a 303 round
@DrRichtoffen1
5 жыл бұрын
paul white .60 cents if you reload :)
@mrwdpkr5851
5 жыл бұрын
yep . and I thought 8x57 was getting expensive !
@WZW1982
5 жыл бұрын
@@DrRichtoffen1 That's still steep!
@blazeiscrazy8737
5 жыл бұрын
I wonder how much the D-30's shells cost.. Like damn..
@Theguyinthefez
5 жыл бұрын
@@mrwdpkr5851 Yup. All that is really left that "cheap" are the corrosive primed Yugo/Czech/Turkish stuff. Thank the MG42 guys for that lmao
I miss all the german PAK guns
@Hermann-lz2jb
5 жыл бұрын
Julian Kern what happened to them
@vecchiogufo4863
5 жыл бұрын
They have a PAK 36.
@f.m.m1257
5 жыл бұрын
@@Hermann-lz2jbnothing, they just dosnt have one.
@melodrama9098
5 жыл бұрын
Same
@sam8404
5 жыл бұрын
@@f.m.m1257 except for that one PAK 36. I know I've seen a PAK 40 at this event, pretty sure Gun Jesus has a video on it
I'm proud to be an American nut if that's the case, I've been to the Big Sandy several times it's a real blast every time.
My father told me in one of the rare moments he talked about WWII said there was nothing more terrifying than a German artillery barrage with 88's! He said that there is no such thing as an atheist in a fox hole under attack from German 88's..
@simonyip5978
5 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Kovacs great story, but it's possible that your dad mixed up the 88 with another higher calibre weapon, because I don't think that the 88mm had very big high explosive rounds, they were mainly anti tank and anti aircraft guns so the ammunition wasn't designed for artillery barrages, the 10.5cm and the 15cm would have been much worse during a barrage.
@paavobergmann4920
4 жыл бұрын
@@simonyip5978 I guess 88mm is enough if you´re on the receiving end...And yes, there were HE rounds.
@ronalddavis
4 жыл бұрын
American troops tended to call ALL artillery 88's
@simonyip5978
4 жыл бұрын
@@ronalddavis I think the same thing happened with German tanks, many allied troops were convinced that they were up against tiger tanks but the total number of tigers was less than 2000 built from 1942 to 1944/45 (?).
@matthewyoung9828
2 жыл бұрын
Concerning the 88 was a high velocity gun I recon he was mistaken for other low velocity guns
Oh, to be able to feel that concussion again after all these years would be great. Thanks for putting his video up for me to look at.
Big guns *are* addictive. I tell people all the time... Being a corporal tank gunner on the first gen of M1's in Germany in the way back? Yeah, best job I ever had!
Might be awkward for concealed carry. "Is that a Howitzer in your pocket or are you just really, really, really happy to see me?" 😁
Can you get that 152mm for home defence?
@jadespets4258
5 жыл бұрын
I don't se why not
@Statusinator
5 жыл бұрын
What do you think he has it for?
@davidcauich6865
5 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@muricaseal4079
5 жыл бұрын
Pyro Norway $100 bucks at Walmart.
@HTLTDI74
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah i hear the rubber bullet rounds are pretty effective at close range of up to 10 miles
Those guys shooting in sequence are having waaaaay too much fun! :)
Can’t spell party,without Arty...
Nothing says being an American and FREEDOM like this does !
What a great fun in this big Land U.S.A! I like it soooo much👌this is pure love for this rare weapon's
Wow, thanks for the video. I can't even imagine the thrill of firing one of these big boys, I know how big my smile was the first time I fired an M4 with a bump stock!
I wanna go! Looks like so much fun
real awesome ... God Bless America .. greetings from Brazil
lol the shirt of the guy say "drunk artillery shooters club" I totally want to become a member!!
After a career in the Field Artillery, I can tell you that the smell of cordite gets in your blood.
@Schrankerle
4 жыл бұрын
It smells like victory.
Imagine driving down a highway and seeing a truck towing a 152mm artillery piece
And here I am just upgrading from a .22 to a 9mm 😂
Excellent video! Beautiful weapons. My god.
I Love those Guns 😎👍😁 I would love to have one of them , but I can't, Canadian law is sucks.....lol...... Great show Buddy !!!!!!!
Awesome! I love it!
*Liberals* “you’d never need a gun like that”. *me* “it’s for home defense”
@Kafkodesu
6 жыл бұрын
Nate Thompson Me: "well i record sound effects and i need this to record sounds for your precious movies and video games. Too bad you dont ever go outside other wise you'd understand."
@poisonsquid37
6 жыл бұрын
You never know when a troop of enemy soldiers will camp out a mile from your house.
@warriorsofftime2782
6 жыл бұрын
poisonsquid37 dam straight
@warriorsofftime2782
6 жыл бұрын
Kafko calm down their kido
@warriorsofftime2782
6 жыл бұрын
I'm actually army so yea
Excellent ! Beautiful machinery !
nice collection..good video on an excellent subject...Glorious sounds they are
The "US 57mm" is actually a British 6 pdr anti tank gun made in the US
@norcal9168
3 жыл бұрын
who cares
@jaybudz1620
2 жыл бұрын
Shh don't tell them, they're happy in ignorance
@redsquare8256
2 жыл бұрын
@@norcal9168 I know no one cares - but I like the fact that I have at least learned something in my life...unlike a certain commenter...
@norcal9168
2 жыл бұрын
@@redsquare8256 wow bro you can name a random old canon you've learned so much!!!
damn so close to being Robert BiGUNdo big gun enthusiast
D20 Russian , WOW , Thanks for bringing it along !!! Im From Poland , Living in the USA AS A Citizen. Thank You for the video !
@landontruman3632
5 жыл бұрын
Glad you're here. Just don't vote for democrats or these freedoms will eventually go away.
"What a phenomenal video!!
God Bless America.
@paulmauer9405
5 жыл бұрын
Why ?
@juliancollot7579
5 жыл бұрын
Paul Mauer did you not see the video?
@paulmauer9405
5 жыл бұрын
Yes , i do. because .. 😂😂😂
@hanswurst9700
5 жыл бұрын
Paul Mauer 👍👍
@matjov
5 жыл бұрын
"God" 😂
Thank God we live in a free country, pass the ammo! What a cool display of antiques guns, I'd love to have been there during this filming!
Thanks for the presentation. very nice, I want one.
Very cool 😎 keeping history alive one shell at a time
Nothing but a bunch of level-headed, knowledgeable enthusiasts. And these kind are the general enemy of most politicians.
note on the description, you should say "semi annual", biannual means "every two years". I'd love to go see the big booms some time!
Super informative and great video!
Awesome collection
An artillery piece behind every blade of grass .....
“It’s a neat gun but overly complex” what else did you expect Germany to do XD
Damn. Never knew they look so beautiful in color.
THAT WAS A GREAT BANG!!👍
those guns are perfect for conceal carry!
No one is going to comment that this guys name is Robert Big-Gun-Do?
Love the little bounce they all get in line in the last shots
got to love the fact that the biggest gun here is a Russian howitzer!
@shamusk1986
5 жыл бұрын
Thats because old Russian and Soviet stuff litters battlefields all over the middle east Not to mention in the former Soviet Republics everything in for sale at the right price
The house on the hill, is it rental? My in-laws are looking to rent a house!
"Way overcomplicated..." apt description of all german ww2 weapons
@oldsargeusmc1186
5 жыл бұрын
Nah, Kar98K was pretty simple.
@thekinginyellow1744
3 жыл бұрын
cough... Panzerfaust.
Just added Big Sandy Shoot to my bucket list.
Awesome video!
In India ...it's illegal to own a Sword 😧
@bladecintron3872
5 жыл бұрын
...wow im sorry
@aitortilla5128
5 жыл бұрын
And that's fine. What's not fine is to be able to own a gun or an artillery piece.
@imranmalik5310
5 жыл бұрын
Hahaha because they can't handle
@SerangelROM
5 жыл бұрын
@@aitortilla5128 CDC reports that there are between 500k and 3 million defensive firearm uses in the US every year, thats at least 500k women not raped, children not kidnapped, people not murdered, robbed, or beaten. There are 12k firearm homicides every year in the US, the CDC also reports that 80% of these deaths are gang related. Solve the gang problem and you solve the imaginary gun problem. The benefits of the populace being able to own firearms massively out weighs the negatives that comes with it. Then again, gun control has never been about gun safety, its about controlling a populace by making them unable to defend themselves. Hell, look at the UK, police get sent to your home if you say something mean on the internet. In 10 years, people there will be jailed for saying the wrong words.
@SerangelROM
4 жыл бұрын
@@blacksyndrome95 As unfortunate as it is, the lives of a few are not worth the innumerable lives that would be lost under a tyrannical government.
Danm you can own a D20 some places and we cant get certain hand guns in california, this place i wearing on my soul.
@awsomesauce03
6 жыл бұрын
Tony Marbulz can you imagine the damage you could do to a home with one these. Theirs a home intruder and then theirs a 127mm she'll flying straight through every supporting wall in your house.
@ShaithMaster
6 жыл бұрын
It would be virtually impossible to get ammunition for that.
@DieselRamcharger
6 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Arizona. We don't fuck around.
@alecingram4669
5 жыл бұрын
Nick Coltrane but they do manage to anyway haha
@alecingram4669
5 жыл бұрын
Nick Coltrane there is actually this online store by someone called Paul mulhay or something and he sells artillery rounds like 152mm, although he, aphe, heat, chemical rounds, everything you can think of. Even rocket rounds
God bless America - Hello from South Africa.
Great video
Liberal: who needs an AR15 to hunt deer Me: your right... I need something bigger.
@timmayer8723
5 жыл бұрын
Simply Vullgar my three kids are all college grads and beyond. You or your kids will always work for one of my kids. Jus sayin.
@pasamelasal8805
5 жыл бұрын
You're*
@TheDesertwalker
5 жыл бұрын
@@bobjackson3702 Who do you work for , Bob? Looks like you have the most ignorant statement. You have to resort to vulgar ad hominem, not of Tim, but of his kids. I am going to go out on a limb and guess you are a Trump supporter who did not finish high school.
@SamLJack
5 жыл бұрын
What about .600 intro express gun?
@danielvelasco4003
5 жыл бұрын
@@timmayer8723 in what? Gender studies? Lol
😮
@squidwardtesticles1039
5 жыл бұрын
Matsimus the legend himself
@DeasExtra
3 жыл бұрын
@@squidwardtesticles1039 yep
I love the sweet sound of artillery in the morning
Honestly really like how he edited it as explanation then shot. I thought that was perfect. Not all but most
Imagine a fudd trying to steal the brass for those
Be nice to have a camera close to the target to show accuracy and impacts.
Love this video!
haha, i couldn't believe you had a 152 mil Russian gun very amazing!
Walking all day arround the field but then, a 152mm boys says : Hello komred
That German cannon is over engineered, that is German 👉 QUALITY folks.👍
@plebbiebiceps2636
5 жыл бұрын
Pieter W quality over quantity is what led to the german defeat in ww2
@glockedie
5 жыл бұрын
@@plebbiebiceps2636 Nah that was winter
@GuuMonster
5 жыл бұрын
@@glockedie Engaging at the wrong time in the wrong place indeed
@frisos8850
5 жыл бұрын
@@GuuMonster With wrong equipment
@plebbiebiceps2636
5 жыл бұрын
@@glockedie the winter was a small piece in a large puzzle, even if the Germans invaded and camped down during winter, or even chose a different time to invade, they couldn't have won. Under no circumstance was a Axis victory possible, unless they changed their entire doctrine.
Never give them up!!!
7:00 "Drunk Artillery Shooters Club", sounds like my type of club.
i love the USA
So jealous, I’m an ex gunner British Army, if only we had somewhere like this in the U.K.!!!🤔 Love theD-20, came under fire from them once, not pretty! Thought I’d see the D-30 though?
@nonstop9907
5 жыл бұрын
I am English, but want to know what the sound of this video is? That's the sound of Freedom, the type of Freedom we both wish we had, we live under a nanny state.. I wish we could enjoy the same type of society that America has, the main reason we dont get to enjoy anything like this is because of our nanny state system.
@jackstephens7222
5 жыл бұрын
Where did you get those fired at you?
@landontruman3632
5 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for good Brits like you all. It's sad what Europe has become and getting worse too.
That D20 was a BEAST!
I was moving to kingman during last event...I wanted to make it there badly..# bucketlist!
It’s good to be American
You Yanks have way too much fun!! Jealous from Australia.
@harrykuheim6107
4 жыл бұрын
Take your Country back from the Socialists...
I was a number 1 man on a self propelled M110 Howitzer in the Army. It's a really big blast!!!💥💣
@christophermurphy7481
6 жыл бұрын
When I was a Marine in Vietnam, ('66-'67), with 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st MarDiv, we were joined by a crew of Army soldiers in the Tam Ky area just west of Hwy 1 in I-Corps. They crewed this huge 175 mm gun. Talk about a blast!
One of my most favourite Russian D-20 artillery...!!
Need this stuff in Virginia right now
@josephzacharias7992
4 жыл бұрын
I live in VA and I was just hoping that there are some people near by that are packing some heat like this.
Ok, NOW, i have a good reason to visit the USA.
@jespino2390
5 жыл бұрын
me too
Just curious but for the light and heavy guns/howitzers, do you reload for that and have a CNC shop cut out a few solid projectiles. Interested because I’ve always wondered.
So good, Thank you.
Stalin loved artillery. it was his queen of the battlefield.
VOX media having a heart attack right now ....LOL
@midgetman4206
5 жыл бұрын
"Get a look at the far right group get armed ready to attack our feelings"
@post-leftluddite
3 жыл бұрын
There are plenty of militant leftists (democrats aren't leftist, BTW, they're centrist) like myself that own plenty of weapons and have professional training
@post-leftluddite
3 жыл бұрын
There are plenty of militant leftists (democrats aren't leftist, BTW, they're centrist) like myself that own plenty of weapons and have professional training
You guys must have the most fun lives ever
"Darling, I will just park my D20 152 mm in our backyard... My friends need artillery support" xD
And I live in Germany were Butterfly knifes are forbidden.....
@elli003
4 жыл бұрын
Come on down Horst. We've got your German 88mm ............... a fantastic piece of artillery.
@sumvs5992
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, guess the german government didn't change that much since WW2
@victorparker308
3 жыл бұрын
Come on down. Luv 2 have you. Please scrounge up & bring along an FW-190, 88 flax gun, various WW2 era German machine guns, and a Tiger Tank. We'll gladly take them off your hands to be used here for home protection.
Lucky Arizona
OH MY! I need to go clean up after watching that!
Looks like so much fun.
Crazy American, love your country!! Too bad liberals are ruining it all. I have an RPG 7V at home but you took it to another level. Love from lebanon ❤️
@spookypunky
4 жыл бұрын
That's a refreshing comment on KZread
@Klimotine
4 жыл бұрын
Ey mate good for you, but as a liberal, i enjoy my m1 garand i just want a wee bit more gun control like more cracking down on the black markets instead of letting them sell military grade rifles to civilians
@Klimotine
4 жыл бұрын
Also great choice of weapon :)
"That deer was coming right at US!"
That is...AWESOME!!!
Ted from Texas. Very cool