Ran the Mini 14 at the 3 Gun yesterday!
Last Friday I went to the OVGC Range to sight in my AR and try to get my Mini 14 to run with my Tapco Mags which I have had problems with.
The wind was blowing 40+mph and it was starting to rain so I just shot dirt clods and gongs at 50-300 yards and got the AR closer. A paper target would not have stood up against the wind.
The Mini 14 has held it's zero for years now, and I found out that simply NOT loading 30 rounds in the mags allowed them to run perfectly. I hit a 2x3' gong at 200 yards 15 times in a row off hand and found that all 5 mags worked perfectly. So I figured it out all by myself!
So yesterday I brought the Mini 14 to the 3 Gun Shoot at the Winchester Canyon Gun Club Santa Barbara and fired against a dozen AR's.
I shot the first 2/3's of the rifle course offhand and was clean all the way up thru the first 18 shots and then my support arm was starting to get really tired and I missed a few so I dropped down and supported off a barrier for the last few targets. I ended up with 30 shots for 22 necessary hits. All my misses were at the last 5 targets and that wasn't the gun,,, it was me getting wore out.
Lots of questions about the gun afterwards as many there had never heard of a Mini 14/30?
Also shot my Mossberg 500 and Glock 21 SF and shot everything pretty good I placed in the upper 1/3 of the group.
It was a good day with friends and the weather was beautiful !!!
Here's a pic of the gun with the Tapco mag in it, and the shotgun, everybody knows what a Glock looks like..
Randy