Who wants to blast some paper? AKA Another MNSubaru shooting day!

I was just at TWO walmarts and am severely disappointed. The Maple Grove one had 0 boxes of .308 and 0 boxes of .40. The BP one had 0 Boxes of .308 and 1 Box of .40. $12.97 for a box of .40 is a good price, but I wanted alot more than 1 box.

 

^^^I went to walmart in Coon Rapids, Blaine, St Anthony, and northtown, And only found 1 box of the .40 I also tried fleetfarm off lexington and all they had was the regular blazer(not brass).

 

I did not try the BP fleet farm, but they normally have comparable prices to most sporting good stores, $15+ a box. Walmart is the cheap stuff. I was talking to the guy at the counter and he said that their ammo shipments are unpredictable at best.

I guess I will only be bringing 250rnds of .40.

 

I buy my ammo at www.sportsmansguide.com, and pick up at the will-call desk in south st paul.

Hungarian light ball surplus 7.62x54r was 181.12 out the door for 880rds.

 

Guy's i'm gonna have to bail on this. A friend of mine needs some help with his restaurant and I told him that i'd help. Sorry for performing the classic mnsubaru handwaver action. I'm normally really good about not doing that.

 

dang this seems to be the way things went...I am sorry I couldn't make it either, I went home from work early Friday sick :-(

 

No worries guys, we had a awsome turn out. We reserved 5 lanes and there is a waiting list. I was there with the gang for about 2 hrs than I had to go to work. My wife and I had a blast. Huge thanks to everyone that offered me an opportunity to try out their guns. And especially Brian for showing me how to work these hardware. The 16g was a real treat, I had to contain myself after a while, didn't want to use up too many rounds after taking the heads off of some terrorist and even took the paper off the holder.

I now have some ideas on what to try next, Ted thanks for letting me test the S&W. I think that will be on the rental list for sure next time. It was really nice to meet some more board members. Kudos for putting this event together!

 

How about we plan on doing one of these on a weekend I don't work.

 

Eventually I just decided I was going to take time off of work to make it. LOL :yumyum:

 

my poor xavier (xd40) hasnt been out shooting in over a year

 

I'll put some rounds thru it if you want.

I love the XDs. That's one of springfield's best handguns.

 

its a bit heavy for daily carry but i feel safer knowing its there and not moving unless i want it to. plus having 13 rounds instead of smaller guns 10 or whatever is nice as well. again, im in Duluth so i doubt you wanna drive just to shoot. Maybe this summer when i bring the wrx down we can have a shooting day. i always bring it with me.

 

Has anyone been to www.inrangellc.com in Monticello, MN? It's closer to home, I'm going to go check it out.

 

This was fun as always. I used up all of my .40 ammo, but came home with a big bag of brass. Going to have to fire up the media tumbler soon.

I would be game for trying circle of pines. I think it would be a blast to shoot the .308 at an indoor range (no wind ) at greater ranges that 25 yrds.

 

It is right by the US Bank about 1 or 2 blocks south of 42nd on bonitrue (sp?) rd

 

I had a great time. HUGE thanks to everyone that let me shoot their hardware!!!
Definitely started to get a feel for what I liked and what I didn't. I was really impressed with the S&W M&P, I need to research it more. Nice to meet some of you guys too.

I'm definitely down for circle pines, it's right in my back yard

 

I had a great time too. Thanks to everyone that let me try out their stuff. Next time I'll try to bring some more guns.

I don't mind driving to robbinsdale, but circle pines is a lot closer to me.

 

I got a good laugh out of this one(the one shot that was dead nuts). Too bad it wasn't the first shot. :yumyum:

btw don't mind the three low shots, I need to work on not dropping the barrel.

 

That was fun, sign me up for the next time around! Thanks Brian for getting katie to try a few new guns that she wouldn't have tried if it was me asking her to. Time to stock up on ammo again, I think we went through 350-.40,100-.38 spl and almost 50 .357 mag.

 

I saw that Mossberg that you got Jason, it looks like a nice gun. you will have to post up some pics of it though ;-)

 

twofive, what distance were you shooting that pattern at?

 

I think everyone shooting pistol was shooting at the 21 feet line. Although EBR15 and I both tried shooting at the 50 line as well. at 50 my groups open up just alittle bit

 

That's correct, I shot at the 21 foot line with all the handguns.
Glock 19
xd-9
xd-m .40
s&w M+P
1911 .45
Brian's .22 (what was that by the way?)

Thanks again to every who let me try their hardware.

 

Brian's .22 is a Kimber. It is thier stand alone .22 version IIRC not a 1911 with the slide conversion.

 

^I figured you were mostly at the 21ft.

Just checking.

I really need to make it to one of these.

 

I'll be home sometime this summer. We've got a deployment on the horizon, so I will be taking some leave before that happens.

I made it to bills 6 times with family while I was home last time, and can make it there again when I'm home. I'm just not sure if it will line up with an mnsubaru date.

 

Well I was just out and about. For those who are interested it seems like Walmart gets its ammo shipments in on Tuesday nights. I had a very successful ammo run, compared to the previous 2 times atleast, I still hold my streak of buying all the walmarts I stop at out of ammo. (2 last time, 3 this time )

I am now ready for the next Bill's meet. I have plenty of .40 and a decent amount of .308 (we should go to circle of pines!).

for those that are interested:

Walmart ammo prices 3/11/09
CCI Blazer Brass 9mm (50rnds) - 8.9x
CCI Blazer Brass .40 (50rnds) - 12.4x
CCi Blazer Brass .45 (50rnds) - 15.9x
WWB .40 (50rnds) - 15.xx
Federal .308Win 150gr (20rnds) - 13.4x
Remington .308 150gr (20rnds) - 17.xx
Winchester .308 150gr (20rnds) - 17.xx

and the Maple Grove one didnt have any handgun ammo. they had a sign up about it. I took a pic and will post it tomorrow.

 

what's the WWB 9mm value pack up to now? man...I miss that being $10. I cleaned out a few walmarts in my day. :laugh:

 

I stopped at Walmart in Blaine yesterday and found a WWB box of 100 38 special and and picked up one of the two boxes in .40 they had. they did have probably a half dozen boxes of 9mm too.

 

I am not sure what the 9mm WWB is going for. I dont shoot 9 so I wasnt really looking, the CCI 9mm caught my eye because it was so cheap. ie $3 less a box than .40 and $6 less than .45.

Benny: only 1 out of 2 boxes? why not just buy both? Pretty sure Wednesday I bought 12 boxes The scary thing is that I am pretty sure I could go through all of that in one trip to the range. Good thing I will be reloading soon, just got the first batch of brass cleaned up.

 

^^^Now that I think about it I should have. I was feeling cheap at the time. Oh well when I run out you should have lots of reloads that you're gonna need me to test out.....right? I did manage to find one WWB this afternoon at Brooklyn Park.

 

haha. well if you save your brass for me, we can probably works something out.

 

agh, just went to sportsman warehouse(they are having a going out of business sale). XD-9 2 mags, holster, case, cleaning brush for $489. Just not ready to buy yet. If anyone is looking they have 1 left.

btw, Martin, they had a regular XD in .45 there.