My new mini 14 is a blast to shoot! I chewed through all 220 rounds I brought with me a lot faster than I thought I would. the action slides very smoothly, and eats bullets like candy. I did try out an older 30 round magazine, but from what I've read online, the mini 14 doesn't usually like those, and this was proven true to me today - it kept getting a FTF, and wouldn't feed up properly. I kind of was expecting this, because when I was loading the magazine, it was kind of tricky to get it loaded all the way, and the bullets kept wanting to slide out. Oh well, the 30 rounder was free, so no loss there.
Matt and I showed up about 1pm or so, blasted through all my rifle rounds, about 150ish pistol, and I put a few tubes through my shotgun. Matt cleared out his pistol ammo, and I believe cleaned out his ak-74 ammo as well. On a side note, I was able to recover about 215 rounds of 223 brass, and just about all my 45 brass, so I'll be able to reload those when i get the rest of my components in.
I'm anxiously awaiting the multi-gun competition this Saturday. Hopefully some other guys can make it out, because this is an event that only happens a few times a year.
Speaking of competitions, I went to the USPSA pistol match yesterday - scored 3/4 in my division (single stack, major caliber), and 21/31 overall. One of the stages was really hard to tell if I hit the target or not, because we were shooting thru a barrel (sound reverb was horrible! and actually affected some participants guns from cycling correctly). And swingers... I hate swingers.... Don't know if you hit them or not, so you have to shoot them a few times just to make sure. Oh yeah, it was also finger numbingly cold that day, so it ended up being real hard to shoot the last couple stages. It was still fun though.
Anyways, hope some of you guys can make it out to the multi-gun this Saturday.
We were right on the fringe of the weather that came through. Not sure what was gonna go down with the snow and ice. Take care and stay warm.
