Select Fire: Getting an Adrenaline Rush at Gunship Helicopters

By Chris Eger

On this episode of Select Fire, we trekked out to Gunship Helicopters in the Mojave Desert to hang out, shoot some cool stuff, and bask in some rotor wash.
Established in 2015, Gunship Helicopters is based at their own helipad on a 71-acre private shooting range about a half-hour drive from Las Vegas. While in town for SHOT Show, we met up with the crew there to see what it is all about.
The helicopter of choice for the operation, an Airbus AS350– popularly known as an A-Star– is nimble and can reach speeds of 120 miles per hour. Among the most popular commercial aircraft around the world, the A-Star is used in everything from medical and law enforcement services– they are popular with Border Patrol– to military use.
For use at Gunship Helicopters, the doors are open so the person shooting can sit inside and be belted in while aiming at steel targets and aircraft wreckage on the mountainside hundreds of yards away.
The A-Star is the “helicopter” part of Gunship Helicopters. (Photos: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
The A-Star is perhaps best known for having excellent high-altitude performance, which coupled with limited noise interference, makes it a no-brainer for use at Gunship Helicopters.
The pintel mounting on

Source: Guns.com