Mini-30 - 2, AR500 - 0 (or 'Today's Range Report')
Spent another fine afternoon at the shooting club today. Beautiful early spring weather, light breezes, hardly a soul using the range with me! Awesome!
I wanted more trigger time with the new Mini-30, but also brought my AR and a Ruger 10/22. I put my AR500 steel targets out at 100 yards and a couple other paper and steel targets to have a fun assortment of things to shoot. I won't bore you with the AR and 10/22 stuff other than to say it was a good day hammering steel with all of them !!!!
My focus was the Mini-30, still breaking it in and figuring out what ammo it likes. Today I again had mixed results with Golden Tiger and getting erratic feeding and firing issues. But my 2 different types of Yugo surplus did great feeding and even produced some improved groups. I only shot a few groups on paper but was seeing about 2.75".  I'll take that for now but still need to try some Silver Bear. I cracked open this case of Yugo recently so no hurries!!!!!
Like I said, I shoot AR500 steel plates at 100 yards. I love hearing the hit and this Mini-30 really knocks the snot out of them compared to the 5.56 from my AR. Apparently it hits it a bit too hard cuz today I broke 2 of them? The 'ears' where you hang them broke right off and I don't even think I hit that spot. Not sure the deal...and they weren't cheap either  .
Here's my pretty stock Mini-30. Just added the bipod and that's a Weaver 3-9x32 I have on it right now. I intended to shoot this gun with open sights and only installed the scope to see which ammo did best. But now I kinda like it so will leave it on awhile.
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