Fun, fun, fun. I shot a G18 today!

[pesticidal]

My son & I went to the full-auto shoot in Princeton, MN. today. They had all kinds of guns there, including three Glock 18's. Fo 10 bucks, I got to run a 25 round magazine through it. I started with a couple single shots, then flipped it over to full auto and let loose with 3 bursts wchich promptly emptied the mag.

The muzzle flip wasn't all that bad. I would have shot some more, but there were too many other guns I had to try out, ;f including an AK-47, M-16, & a BAR.

Here's the table with the G18 & other goodies:

[pesticidal]

Here's some of the big guns:

[mark123]

Was it an actual G18 or a conversion?

[pesticidal]

It said G18 on the slide, but the guy told me it was a conversion.

[stillen]

you gotta love the USPS box on the table filled with ammo/magazines.... thats classic

[JJinORE]

Hey I like your kind of toys!

[218]

oohh, I think I see a Sten on that table...

...:cool: :cool:

[pesticidal]

Some more toys...

[pesticidal]

My son, trying to keep his hands off of the guns...

[Eddie C.]

Tim, that sounds like the most fun you could have standing up. Hahaha! Glad you had a great day. I bet your son's eyes were as big as saucers. Hell, mine would of been!

[WalterGA]

If it said "G18" on the side, then how could it have been a conversion? Also, what about those 25-rd. mags?? Never heard of 'em. Is that a G17 mag with a +8 extension?

[SSTRUCKNGUY]

Yeah that sure as hell looks like a dedicated G18 to me.

[Smaug]

Thank for the pix. I'm jealous. I would have liked to have tried a Sten or a "grease gun".

In Basic, we shot the M16A2s in burst mode, and although it was an experience, it was really no big whup. The M60 on full-auto was great though, even if it is a terrible gun, hehehe.

Of the ones you show, the ones I would most like to shoot are the MP5 and the Sten. Oh, and maybe the Tommy Gun...

[GlockBY]

Walter, there is a regular glock 30+ rounder on the table.Sometimes people load just 25 in it to have 1box of ammo = 2 mags.

Also the selector looks a little bit too shiny compared to the finish of the rest of the gun.

Glen213, there was a machine gun shoot on Saturday 05/15 in Hanson, Mass by the way.

[pesticidal]

Originally posted by WalterGA
If it said "G18" on the side, then how could it have been a conversion? Also, what about those 25-rd. mags?? Never heard of 'em. Is that a G17 mag with a +8 extension?

Don't know for sure, & don't really care if it was a conversion or not. I just knwo it was a blast to shoot.

Oh, and I had 1/2" groups at 50 yards, too!


;e ;f

[Redef]

Sounds like a really good time.

[Matt_F]

I really wish I lived somewhere where I could get to machine gun shoots... glad you and your son had fun though. :)

[WalterGA]

Originally posted by Matt_F
I really wish I lived somewhere where I could get to machine gun shoots... glad you and your son had fun though. :)

Although the regs clearly prohibit f.a. fire, folks do it all the time out at our local GA Wildlife Management Area range.

[GlockBY]

Oh, and I had 1/2" groups at 50 yards, too!

most likely close to 2-3 yard groups at 50 ;)

Were you firing it with the shoulder stock extended?

[turrican]

Originally posted by pesticidal
My son, trying to keep his hands off of the guns...

That is a classic!


I wish I was there!

[tact-shooter]

COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL!!!!

[.50glock]

That is some major sweet shiat there man. Your so lucky to be able to even hold one of those g18s. So, where was this gun event held? Tell me which planet(I know its not on Earth), which country(Probably not in the US), and the rest on where it has at so I can go there and experience some g18 fun. Lucky bum.

[pesticidal]

Originally posted by .50glock
That is some major sweet shiat there man. Your so lucky to be able to even hold one of those g18s. So, where was this gun event held? Tell me which planet(I know its not on Earth), which country(Probably not in the US), and the rest on where it has at so I can go there and experience some g18 fun. Lucky bum.

Princeton, MN. North of Mpls, East of St.Cloud. They have another one coming up September 18th!

Here's yet another pic...

http://pestysplace.com/images/princeton/DCP_0199.jpg

[pesticidal]

oops. double post

[sundance43.5]

Originally posted by pesticidal
Some more toys...


Me sees an MP40 in there!!!! OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH,AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH;f

[pesticidal]

The Associated Press had an article on the event:

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/special_packages/telecom/8740438.htm?1c



Posted on Sun, May. 23, 2004


Minnesotans lined up to take their shot with machine guns

RICHARD CHIN

Associated Press


They showed up for the semiannual machine-gun shoot to blaze away with an astounding variety of weapons.

Dozens of people - men and women, teenagers and grammar-school kids - lined up to take their turn pulling the trigger on an AK-47, a Tommy gun, an Uzi or a Sten.

The shoot was a sight that would fill your heart with glee or horror, depending on where you stand on the Second Amendment debate.

The Minnesota Machine Gunners Association, a couple dozen guys who get together every spring and fall and invite the public, has held the event on Armed Forces Day for the past five or six years at the West Branch Gun Club near Princeton.

During the daylong event, they sprayed thousands of rounds of ammunition downrange, perforating an assortment of targets: old vehicles, toilets, bowling pins, a dish antenna, a television set, a personal computer, propane tanks, a couch, a plastic snowman and images of Osama bin Laden.

More than a few rounds stitched the pond in front of the target range, sending up impressive spouts of water. At one point, something - possibly a snowmobile's gas tank - caught fire, billowing a lot of dense black smoke around the site, a former rock quarry.

Except for pauses to reload, let the guns cool and set up new targets, the noise was relentless. There was the zipping sound of modern submachine guns; the ripping canvas roar of a legendary World War II German MG-42; and the heart-stopping "BOOM" of a .50-caliber rifle.

The nearly 400 people who showed up were mainly men. But there were also fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, and what looked like couples on dates, taking pictures of each other firing MAC 11s or MP5s or posing in front of the carcass of a shot-up motorcycle.

"There are no skinheads, no weirdos," said Bob Bowman, one of the event's organizers.

Myron Henderson, 79; his son, Blake, 45; and his grandson, Shane, 13, came from Winona to fire "whatever looks neat," including a .30-caliber Browning 1919 used by American GIs in World War II.

Paul Dahlinger, 48, of Rochester steered a couple of friends toward a "classic" for their first machine-gun experience.

"You have to shoot a Thompson submachine gun the first time," he said. "Men, women, they all giggle."

Dave Kranitz, 33, of Ramsey, brought his 10-year-old son, Matthew.

"He can go back to school and tell them he shot a machine gun that cycles at 1,200 rounds per minute," Kranitz said.

"I think it's a good experience for kids. It's fun," said Claire Byerly, 13, who came from Robbinsdale with her father and brother.

Ron Brace, an emergency-room doctor and machine-gun collector from Cambridge, was there. "I'm lousy at golf," he said.

So was Wayne Hanson, an arms dealer from Fridley.

"I probably shouldn't tell you I'm a retired postal worker," Hanson said as he loaded a gun for a new shooter.

Entrance to the event cost $10 a person, plus shooting fees that varied with the gun. The fee averages 35 cents a round, according to Bowman. But at fully automatic, that can chew through the wallet pretty fast. Several people said they planned on shooting away $100 to $200.

"When you get behind a belt-fed machine gun, you pull the hammer on 250 rounds almost as fast you can spit," said Bowman, who said his collection includes 150 machine guns and a Russian tank.

The appeal for some was the chance to fire guns that changed history, iconic arms dating back to World War I, wielded by the famous and the infamous, the weapons of gangsters and terrorists, G-men and great armies.

Others, fascinated by mechanical ingenuity, like to compare the different solutions inventors like Maxim, Browning, Thompson, Kalashnikov and Uzi devised over the past century for the problem of how to kill better and faster.

But many don't worry about history or technology. They just want an adrenaline rush.

"You'll never hold anything as powerful as that in your hands," said shooter Tim Burns.

Maybe that's the allure of anything that's exotic, rare and almost forbidden.

Federal laws allow law-abiding citizens who pass background checks to own machine guns but only a highly limited number of guns registered before 1986. Some states prohibit them altogether. And some, like Minnesota, limit ownership to guns old enough to qualify as curios and relics, which generally means World War II vintage or older.

The effect of those restrictions means the few machine guns that are legal to own sell for as much as a luxury car, effectively keeping them out of the hands of all but a few.

For most people, the May 15 event was their only shot.

That's why Anna Schrage, 23, her sister, Laura, 26, and their dad, Steve, 62, drove up from Eau Claire, Wis.

"When else in my life am I going to be able to say I shot a machine gun?" Anna said.

[lastevolution]

It was a real G18. Notice the selector swtich on the slide. Only the G18 has that.

[BallisticTip]

Very nice.

[firedog]

THe news article says that MN is a C&R only state. Didn't I see some H&K's,Uzi's Mac10's etc. in those pics? Did AP get it wrong?;P

[Blitzer]

Originally posted by firedog
THe news article says that MN is a C&R only state. Didn't I see some H&K's,Uzi's Mac10's etc. in those pics? Did AP get it wrong?;P


NO WAY! A reported couldn't get the facts messed up.... ;f ;l









....OOPS! ;)





HAHAHAHAH! Sorry about that, for a minute there I got a major case of liberal brain farts! ;P ;f ;e ;a

[Michigun]

Full-auto’s?

If you ever find yourself out in Vegas, “The Gun Store” has plenty of full-autos for ya to test-drive.

Here’s a picture of me (notice the expression on my face) after enjoying a session with the MP5: (Please ignore the target behind me… it was my wife’s… yeah that’s right… my wife’s… ;))

[AKvsAR]

No one made a comment about the Chauchat, Hmmmm?

[pesticidal]

It was not on the rental tables. More than likely there was a reason for that. Probably couldn't fire 25 shots without jamming...

[AKvsAR]

;z ;Q

[Washington,D.C.]

There are G18 slides available.So if somebody could figure out how to get it to work on a G17 frame a conversion could be done.Also some conversions are restamped.Like the Uzi and MP-5 conversions.

[UZIFORME]

So my converted Glock 19 with the selector on the side is a Glock 18 since only Glock 18s have the selector on the side?

And I always thought it was a converted model 19.

http://myweb.cableone.net/uziforme/G19AUTO.jpg

[DesertEagle]

Originally posted by AKvsAR
No one made a comment about the Chauchat, Hmmmm?

I was actually going to mention that when I saw nothing about it on page 1, but I see ya'll got the jump on me on page 2 :(

D.E.

[TenMil]

Originally posted by firedog
THe news article says that MN is a C&R only state. Didn't I see some H&K's,Uzi's Mac10's etc. in those pics? Did AP get it wrong?;P

MN is a C&R only state, but that doesn't apply to SOT's.

Now, as far as SOT's who aquire presamples or transferable guns and then surrender their licenses, I have no idea...

But you can only own C&R MG's in MN as an individual, and dems the facts, jack.