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![]() There is a drop in stock etc that resembles the ar 15 platform for the 10/22 -cant give you much detail on it though -it makes the 10/22 m16 ish . |
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I ask you this,
What is the purpose of your buying the rifle? I had a girlfreind who was a Nasty Guardsgirl...oh that sounds just so wrong. She was doing the OCS thing and while waiting she asked if I knew where I could get her a dummy 16 to train with. Ah she was so sweet and cute I didn't laugh at her to badly. Since there was little point to buying your own rubber dummy rifle for training. Especialy since they cost half as much as the real thing. So, what is your purpose for buying a "rifle." Is it to practice and learn or relearn to shoot? Or is it to also practice the whole taking it down and reassembling it thing as well? Or is it just for the whole cool factor? I personaly doubt you can use a rifle enough in the civilian world to develope a good sense of muscle memory. But, if that is what you want to do, then go with the real thing, IF you can find one, even the generic variants which some are more than reasonable. Or do what I am doing for my Cali legal ARs, buying the lowers and then the uppers. The downside, it is impossible to find the uppers right now, as well as it bewing hard to find the fully assembled ones. Folks are buying up the rifles, their components and the ammo like it is crazy as they expect a new ban to hit with this adminsitration. IF it is shooting and honing your skills, then Get yourself a Ruger 10/22 and master the basics with an autoloader, or even a Marlin or AR-7. Just master the basics, trigger and breath control, sighting with proper sight alignment and then work your way up to the shooting positions, and even magazine changes with the rapid or even sustained fire. A benefit to the .22 is 500 rounds is between 12 and 20 bucks, for a AR class you can't get that much for under 300. Thats just my two centavos.
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Most could be grasped by stock and butt and twisted, sights bent waaaay out of alignment and the odd bent barrel to boot. One of the battalions best shots once had to qualify with one and at 200 metres his sights had to be on the far right side of the target in the lane to his right, just so he could graze the left side of his own! Give me a good solid L1A1 SLR any day. 7.62mm hitting power, a barrel that doesn't bend when the wind blows and strong enough to smash over an enemies head without disintergrating. Makes a great hunting rifle too. Kalos, if you're looking to improve your accuracy, there are several methods of "dry firing" that don't require a range, ammunition, or even a rifle! A broomstick with a couple of nails in it for sights, a wall, pencil and paper and a friend to mark your "shots" is all that's needed. Soviets trained their Olympic marksmen this way for years (although I think they might have actually used rifles rather than sticks)! |
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Glad we share a love of the SLR Legbreaker.
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There's just something so...."right" about the SLR. As long as it's been maintained properly and has those wonderful double leaf sights at the rear. Standard rear leaf is ok for combat, but for real shooting it's a bit on the wide side. Still, I managed ok for somebody who spent most of their time carrying an M60.
The F88 Steyr never felt as good to me. Its a fine weapon, and much easier to carry mile after mile, but it's shorter length, lighter round and odd balance didn't exactly instil the greatest confidence. On the plus side, I did fit a WWI SMLE bayonet to mine once. Damn that long blade makes it look mean and certainly scared the young'uns! |
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You dirty bugger!
As for the 16s, well come on the A1s had ALOT of issues! The couple times I fired them they certainly felt like they were lacking too. But the A2 is more robust. As for the whole clobbering someone with one, hey it'll do. I'll worry about it shattering after I have bashed mohameds brains in, heck, a rock will do the job too if the 16 shatters. As for the SLR, I BOUGHT ONE! ![]() And another trick I still use for the offhand is the trick we were punished with in bootcamp. Take the rifle hold it in your shoulder, then add your cartridge belt on the front of the barrel and hold the rifle steady with the added weight, then drop your forward hand holding it only in place with the hand on the pistol grip. Then when you add the forward hand and remove the belt it is so much easier to control. It certainly reduces the "crazy 8" Dry firing has its purpose. It teaches you trigger control and one must learn and know their trigger if they want make the good controlled shots. Quote:
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If those screws aren't there, you don't have a real one.... |
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I think we used them twice, once for bayonet training in Boot Camp and the other time was swim qual. As for her, they were doing some kind of formation stuff like wedge, echelon right and left and skirmishers and all that and they only had enough dummy rifles for half of them. She also wanted to get the feel for it. Come on she is a woman, and they do feel the need to accessorize. As for stuff breaking, hell, I had a SAW stock break on me once as did I the bipod. Stufff happens man.
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I am saying the failure drill and mag change can be learned or relearned in a shorter amount of time than to get the basics down.
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