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    RANGE REPORT: Original Inland and Standard Products mix-master

    Stopped by the Spenceville DF&G range today to try "Iwo" (original Inland) and "Blondie" (mix-master with birch stock) at distance. Prior to this I just did battle sight at 25 yards to check sights, and some slightly longer distances off-hand.

    Shooting was done both off hand standing and sitting leaning on a park bench. Ammunition was Remington 110 FMJ

    Inland with flip sights: 6 o'clock hold on target 50 yards and 100 yards. Free standing, I hit everything I shot at at 50 and 90% at 100. Targets were tin cans, 2 liter bottles, and assorted junk on the range. From the bench, using the same 6 o'clock hold I hit EVERYTHING I aimed at at 100 yards. The rear flip sight was perfect for lateral placement on the target at 100 yards. VERY COOL!


    Standard Products: exactly the same results as the Inland. I also did a couple 2 liters at 150-200 and hit them from the bench, adjusting the rear sight elevation accordingly. Both seemed to have perfectly regulated sights, which is not too surprising considering how well they did on the 25 yard sight in. It just felt handier with its slightly beefier M2 stock (even though most of the "pot belly" was sanded off), and seemed to point better and have better target acquisition than the flip sight Inland with slimmer stock.


    The Standard Products still functioned 100%reliably with both 15 and 30 round magazines.

    The Inland, on the other hand, had a problem. It has functioned perfectly with 30 rounders before, but today, I had 2 FTFs from USGI 15s! It was a short stroke, where the bolt did not travel far enough to the rear to allow the round to come up. It was two different 15 rounders, and both time it was the 11th round.... Maybe my piston id too tight from carbon. I had to free it up before I shot it after I first bought it. Maybe It has residual carbon.

    Overall impressions. While the un-messed Inland was a hoot to shoot (with me thinking of my dad shooting his identical Inland on Iwo Jima 67 years ago), the real "show pony" was the Standard Products. The later stock, later sights, and the Type III band were all improvements that were introduced for a reason. Once again it was borne out that later ones just seem to shoot better. I am confident that I could easily tag a ghoul or goblin at 200 yards with no trouble, even if I just had head and shoulders visible. I do not feel under-gunned at all using it as a patrol carbine.
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    Rangemaster, going to make sure my Inland is still in the safe right now!!!!!!

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    Amen, Bill, it was. There were some guys there with bolt guns, who were amazed that I was shooting at (and hitting) pop cans and Gatorade bottles off-hand at 80-100 yards, rapid fire, with iron sights from a 70 year old weapon. I am not a bulls-eye shooter, but rather off-hand rifle shooting, like my Cowboy Action Shooting. In fact, I credit my 18 years of CAS shooting, with my proficiency shooting a rifle off hand at 100 yards and less. Considering I was hitting pop cans at 100 yards with about every shot from a rest, I do feel that shooting from a rest, I could easily shoot a 10 inch circle (size of an enemy combatants head) at 200 yards with little problem.

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    Rangemaster, going to make sure my Inland is still in the safe right now!!!!!!
    Haha! Sounds familiar, doesn't it! I do remember that I was using 30 rounders and an M2 catch when I fired the Inland last time. This time was using the early mag catch and 15 rounders. The other caveat is that these were not the 15 rounders I usually use, but some well used ones I grabbed from the safe.

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    Update:

    I checked the two 15 round magazines that had the FTFs. BOTH had deformed/depressed feed lips on the same side as the FTF round. That would explain why I had problems with them, and not with the 30 rounders (whose lips are straight).

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    Great thread!

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