This item appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine May 26th 1996
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Remember the cheap thrill of plinking tin cans off a fence with a BB gun
when you were a kid?  These days, what separates the kid from the grown
up is the price and size of the toy, and no one understands that better
than Bruce Seiler of Clancy, Montana.  He wants you to visit his rural
spread and plink away to your hearts content - with anti-tank cannons.
"This has nothing to do with militias or anything," says Seiler, a
retired secret service ordinance specialist whose other business is
supplying  equipment to law enforcement agencies.  "We get World War II
enthusiasts, fathers and sons - just people who are curious."
Curiousity can be expensive.  Its $30 a shot to try Seiler's 20mm Lahti
or Solothurn cannon ("built like a swiss watch").  A hefty $75 yields
the kick of firing a ketchup-bottle-sized round from a 25mm Hotchkiss:
the roar is deafening; the weapons can easily drill a junked tank 2000
yards away.  A bit easier on the budget are .50 caliber machine guns -
$3.50 a pop - but only if you have the discipline to fire a single round
out of a rapid-fire weapon.
This call to arms is safe and legal in scenic, lightly populated Clancy.
"This is the most beutiful place imaginable," Seiler says.  "I can even
put people up in a rustic cabin."
Right near the firing range.
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