Our QILO 10-Year Anniversary party in Texas featured a rather absurd adventure where about 20 of us showed up to a random guy’s house and shot machineguns in his backyard.

The owner of the house is the famed Erwin, and his property was perhaps our favorite “range” we’ve ever been to. This event inspired Black Canyon Systems to create his own version of the Erwin’s Gun Club concept, and it inspired us and MP5GUYS to create our own version as well.

You can read all about the party, the heli hunting, and “Erwin’s Gun Club & Snake Pit” right here.

Initially conceived as an inside joke concept for the group, we liked the design enough to offer it alongside Friday’s Sherp collab drop with BCS.

Tees & Hoodies are a pre-order with 4 week lead time (printed here in USA). Next Level blanks for the tees, Independent blanks for the hoodies.

Tees - $35
Hoodies - $65
Drops Friday, 12/8 at 3PM EST

Excerpt from our full write-up on the QILO 10-year Party:

“The events of Friday behind us, we rose early Saturday to take on the hogs. Rainy weather grounded much of the planned afternoon flights, and cabin fever was beginning to set in for some guests itching to expend the ammo they brought.

Ryan Ashcraft - ever full of ideas - phoned it in once again. He tipped us off to a friend's house just minutes down the road - a perfect backyard shooting range with steel targets and an earth berm (public land is scarce in this part of Texas).

What started with just us and a few of the guests soon snowballed into nearly the whole group driving down backroads to this mysterious property.

When we rolled up to the relative normalcy of the ranch house, doubts began to creep in. It emerged that Ryan’s contact was out of state, and the property appeared dark and uninhabited.

After standing around with our thumbs up our asses, a gruff older gentleman emerged: Ryan’s friend’s father – dressed head to toe in Fudd camo and speaking in a rural Texan drawl so thick it was only 50% intelligible. This was a Texas-German man named Erwin.

He didn't seem to mind in the least that 25 heavily-armed men with night vision and machine guns just showed up to his house unannounced ready to shoot on his land. With a nod of approval, we unloaded everything and began blasting away in his backyard. At first with 300BLK subs, then 556 supers, then unsuppressed spurts of the G18.

The property itself was perfect for this - the backyard shooting range pointed toward the coast with plenty of land and more berms in between. The whole house was elevated on stilts - with an additional wooden frame observation tower - and flanked by palm trees. The property also featured large boats parked nearby Erwin’s small herd of cattle.

Dylan from Texas Loot loaded up his belt-feds with tracer rounds and proceeded to illuminate Erwin’s backyard. I wondered what his neighbors must have been thinking of WWIII going off across the street - but there was no noise complaint this time around.

Between shooting sessions, our gracious host Erwin shared a bit of his own life with us. He told us of years flying planes for “who knows who and filled with who knows what” and how he now shared his home with wild rattlesnakes that roamed free in the house. This answered the question of why he was walking about with large tongs in his hand.

Just another Texas legend, as far as we were concerned. I made a mental note not to use his bathroom without escorts for the rest of our stay.

Erwin sat back and downed Miller Lites on his patio with a smile - watching us light up his backyard with full-auto bursts and mag dumps.

As the night began to wind down, we knew this impromptu backyard haven would live on in the lore of the weekend. We cleaned up our brass and gifted him a case of 5.56 for his hospitality.

QILO x MP5GUYS - "Erwin's Gun Club" Tees & Hoodies (Drops 12/8)