Range trip in vegas

[PUFF88]

I went to Vegas for a few days on vacation and i went here . www.thegunstorelasvegas.com/rental.htm

i rented the Thompson submachine gun fired it full auto, it was a blast, i orginally picked the mp-40 but it had to go into the smithy to be fixed. I fired 2 clips on bursts or full auto. I was having trouble picking the next gun, but i decided to rent the M249 SAW . i fired 100 rounds out of this monster. Not sure how much it ways, i fired 50 rounds with the bipod, and 50 rounds standing holding it up. Not much kick at all, even at full auto. Having fired a ar-15 a few times, was not expecting much kick. ITs very accurate, deployed or not, i think i missed the target only 15-20 times, and not by more than 2 inches. IT was not cheap , but i was on vacation and said the hell with it im gonna have some fun.

[Keith Heitmann]

Cool. The wife would never let me spend money on something like that.

Someone should tell those guys that the MP40 is not a "Schmeisser". They are two totally different weapons. Schmeiser was a less reliable design that the Germans used as early as the invasion of Norway but later abondoned it in favor of the MP39/40 design, which was more reliable.

I just sent them a email.

[PUFF88]

well even if the nickname was for another weapon, i would not be surprised if it was mistakingly called that by GI's , ive read accounts and seen documentaries where lots of other equipment was mistaken for various things, especially all german tanks becoming a tiger tank. but for small arms ,, maybe ,maybe not. he said it was a original mp-40 from 1942

[Keith Heitmann]

Yea the name Schmeisser stuck pretty much throughout the war, but the actual Schmeisser was only used for a extremely brief period in the very opening of the war and was quickly replaced.

[Galland]

PUFF88 said:

I went to Vegas for a few days on vacation and i went here . www.thegunstorelasvegas.com/rental.htm

i rented the Thompson submachine gun fired it full auto, it was a blast, i orginally picked the mp-40 but it had to go into the smithy to be fixed. I fired 2 clips on bursts or full auto. I was having trouble picking the next gun, but i decided to rent the M249 SAW.

It sounds like you had some serious fun! I haven't shot NFA weapons in a long time. I've thought about saving up for a ~$3k MAC variant of some sort. I think I can hack the cost, but I don't like the paperwork. The idea of having to crawl on bended knee and beg the CLEO for his John Hancock on the forms is revolting to say the least.

Galland