Another really good day shooting full autos

[Just Jim]

Got to go out with friends and try out some really good stuff. It was more of a learning session on how some of it works as I had never spent time shooting these gun before. I was amazed at the history behind most of them and picking them up you learned a lot about the men who carried them.

MG 34 was very well made and machined to German perfection. Very interesting on how it all breaks down and what it takes to change the barrel. Accuracy was outstanding and the gun run flawless. Nice package but a heavy SOB.

I got to study a MG 42 but not fire it, man what quick easy barrel changes and you can really see how the Germans went to stampings during the war.

Sterling subgun, the Britts were smart and built a fine 9mm gun with a really amazing magazine. Gun run flawless and was accurate enough to easily hit shotgun shells at 40 feet.

That was all for the day, can't wait for the machinegun shoot at ARPC.

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[Joe Link]

Pics?

 

[Just Jim]

I wish they would let me but the guys are very private. One of them will be at the shoot with a jap 99 and a mp44 plus all kinds of other weapons. I will introduce you should you show up at the shoot.

 

[Joe Link]

I don't blame them, those are some nice toys.

 

[Just Jim]

Deal is with him as a dealer once a year he brings his historic guns out as demo guns. He makes no money but charges for ammo. Thompson, jap99, mp44,sten,bar,AK and M16. You will see more at that shoot than any place else on the west coast.

 

[Stomper]

I'm particularly fond of the Sterling SMG... such an elegantly simple design, yet not a cheap looking or feeling weapon with great lines.

Plus, Imperial Stormtroopers carry them!

 

[Just Jim]

Wait till you spend some time with the Swedish K sub gun. Dead accurate, drums or sticks, open top area so easy to see sights and target plus easy to control trigger for singles, doubles or rock and roll.

 

[Roger65]

Got to go out with friends and try out some really good stuff. It was more of a learning session on how some of it works as I had never spent time shooting these gun before. I was amazed at the history behind most of them and picking them up you learned a lot about the men who carried them.

MG 34 was very well made and machined to German perfection. Very interesting on how it all breaks down and what it takes to change the barrel. Accuracy was outstanding and the gun run flawless. Nice package but a heavy SOB.

I got to study a MG 42 but not fire it, man what quick easy barrel changes and you can really see how the Germans went to stampings during the war.

Sterling subgun, the Britts were smart and built a fine 9mm gun with a really amazing magazine. Gun run flawless and was accurate enough to easily hit shotgun shells at 40 feet.

That was all for the day, can't wait for the machinegun shoot at ARPC.

Where can you shoot full auto around here. Besides Albany Rifle Club, which is 85 miles from me according to Google, is it gravel pits only? Do you generally call the Ranger station first to let them know so they don't get spooked?

Or am I overthinking it?

 

[Stomper]

Overthinking it. MG's are legal to own in Oregon, and as long as you have a legally NFA stamped MG it's no different than shooting any other firearm, except WAY more expensive.

 

[jbett98]

If you think about it, full auto weapons aren't more costly in the long run.
My Thompson only cost $5,900.00 in 1999.
When you factor in it's appreciation in value since it was purchased, you get an increase in value of around $950.00 per year.
So to follow this logic, you can burn up a lot of ammo and still come out ahead.

It's sorta like buying a 70 Hemi Cuda back in the 80's for around $8,000.00.
Sure it gets lousy gas mileage, but how cool can you get driving around in one of those.

 

[Stomper]

Now you are just rationalizing! ( I really mean bragging... LOL!)

 

[Just Jim]

Overthinking it. MG's are legal to own in Oregon, and as long as you have a legally NFA stamped MG it's no different than shooting any other firearm, except WAY more expensive.

let's see, if you bought an UZI two years ago for the going price of $6200 and you sold it today for the going price of $12,000 that's about $5800 worth of 9mm you could have shot up and still come out even. Not including the ATF tax of course

 

[Stomper]

Meh... 9mm and 45ACP... get into 5.56, .308, and 7.62x39.

Alright, who's willing to invest in some start-up money for me to get an MG?!

 

[jbett98]

Stomper, you don't need to buy them, just get on a gun trust that has them.

 

[boogerhook]

so the guys that have paid that kind of money have no interest in undoing the NFA ;-)

 

[BillM]

so the guys that have paid that kind of money have no interest in undoing the NFA ;-)

Actually, they have no interest in repealing the Hughes Ammendment to the Firearms Owners
Protective Act of 1986. (FOPA)
That's the little piece of voice vote excrement that was rammed through in the middle of the night that
forbids any new guns on the civilian registry. THAT is why a $600 M16 is now $25,000.

Probably the best chance of loosening up any provision of NFA34 would be concerning silencers.
Getting them off of the registry and treating them like a firearm (sale on a 4473, background check)
may be possible.

 

[boogerhook]

Thanks for clarifying. Well FOPA sounds an awful lot like "Faux pas".

 

[PrDubi]

I have an m11, and two other mgs.
I wouldn't weep or cry one bit if the values took a dump....Im.for repeal a d everyone getting one. I did sell my mg42/59 because I needed to pay for wife's schooling.

 

[BillM]

Thanks for clarifying. Well FOPA sounds an awful lot like "Faux pas".

Actually FOPA was a pretty good piece of legislation. Cleaned up some gray areas on the GCA68, Granted
"safe passage" through restrictive states, cleaning up the definitions of what a "prohibited person" was and banning the Federal Government from creating a firearms registry. All in all good stuff for gun owners.


The Hughes amendment was an "add-on" amendment, passed on a very dubious vote. There have been
people trying to repeal it ever since.

 

[PrDubi]

safe passage don't work.......tons of people in jail innocently today over nothing.