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Originally Posted by muledeer
Thank goodness it doesn't have a bayonet lug or flash surpressor. Now that would be deadly  I left Kali in 1974 and have never looked back. Think about moving to Northern Nevada and get away from all those liberals.
muledeer |
My friend, you stayed in the land of nuts,fruits and flakes 4 years longer than I did. I left san Francisco forever in 1970, moved to Reno and eventually to Winnemucca where I lived there for a bit over 10 years. I would probably still be there if I hadn't gotten a job transfer to Tucson with a sunstantial pay raise. To be honest, if I could afford to, I'd move back up to Winnemucca yesterday.
My stepson brought his new girl friend over the other day. She just finish a 4 year tour in the Army and when she found I I'd done military time we got to talking about weapons issued. Of course, she had the M4. I told her I had the M2 Carbine as my issue weapon and she didn't know what one was so I showed her my M-1 carbine and explained that it was a semi while the M-2 was select fire just like her M4. The, for splits and grins I showed her the M1 Garand as used in WW2 and Korea and she said it was too heavy. I also showed her a 1903A3 Springfield and she said she definitely wanted to shoot that one.
We'll have to get that set up one of these days. My thoughts on the M16? I'm indifferent. It was bad enough when it had it's original loading but going to that heavier bullet with penetrator? I dunno. Frankly, I have mixed feelings. I would have liked it better if they'd stayed with the same cartridge case and used a 25 or 26 caliber bullet. But that's just me.
Paul B.