Team American

I really like the keys hanging from the pistol grip in duckhunter's picture

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duckhunter

I'm thinking the keys, while practical, are just a little "over the top." I found a new dream rifle, however, so the vendors at Indy had better be stocked up with bulbs and batteries!



I really want a plain jane little Bushmaster or RRA carbine, just waiting for approval from the boss (aka mama). The C&R is "in the mail," so I need to set aside some funds for that as well. Maybe just a direct deposit to AIM or South Ohio... For a free forum, this place is getting expensive! I keep getting reminded about guns that I just have to have, especially when P95 posts some of his pics. dh

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Team American

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srfl

One thing is for sure....Duckhunter can cinder any BG (or light up a city block or two) with his rifle due to all of the lights attached to it.

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P95Carry

Duck - looking at that I am wondering - where is the latch so you can unpop the hood - for maintenance ya know!

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"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."

If a BG dies as the result of pointing a gun at me, then he has merely succumbed to an occupational hazard of being a thug

duckhunter

The only downfall I see is the 55lb 12 volt car battery you have to hump around in the fanny pack. Maybe one of those little Honda suitcase generators? ...

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tire iron

Left to right - FN-FAL (Springfield 48), Galil (.308), Daewoo AR100, M4gery (now camo'd), Bushmaster Dissy, Galil (.223) and AKM.

All are semi-auto.

cheers

tire iron

P95Carry

Nice set of ''tools'' there Tire - one for every day of the week I see

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NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.

"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."

If a BG dies as the result of pointing a gun at me, then he has merely succumbed to an occupational hazard of being a thug

BigJon

Well, heck. I guess someone has to jump in with a bolt gun. Now don't get me wrong - I loves my AR, I surely does, and here's a photo (yep, I keep it simple), but then I'll post a bit about a bolt gun that you may find interesting. Here's my AR - Pre-ban H-Bar lower with a stock Bushy upper.

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BigJon

I recently received a custom rifle I'd ordered from Jim Brockman of Brockman's Rifles (www.brockmansrifles.com). Now that I'm an older fart of 47 and have enough time with rifles under my belt (including one exceptionally eye-opening Randy Cain Practical Rilfe course), I knew what I wanted to build, and I started out on a quest to have someone develop a short, handly rifle to my specs. The following posts are about the rifle, and let me just cut to the chase and say, "I am one happy customer!"

I thought it'd be easy to get what I wanted done, but no one seemed to want to add iron sights to a custom rifle. The usual response was, "We don't add iron sights to our custom rifles!" My unspoken (I'm a nice guy, and there'd have been no point anyway) response was, "It's not YOUR custom rifle - it's MY custom rifle!" Anyway ... 'nuf of that. At Randy's suggestion, I contacted Jim, and ... well, this rifle is the result.

In a nutshell, this is a .308 that's basically one off Brockman's Ultimate Rifles, which you can see on his web page. I added a few bells and whistles that I wanted myself to the basic rifle.

This rifle started life as a Winchester Classic 70 Compact. Now, the receiver wears a 20" barrel, composite stock, Talley bases and QD rings, Ching sling, deeper bottom metal, a tritium-insert protected front site, and one of Brockman's own rear pop-up peeps that springs into place when the scope is removed. I went with a low-powered (2x7) Euro varialbe with a 30mm tube. I also have an older model Leupold M1 (the old model with the turrets that turn the opposite direction of the new ones) in Talley QDs, and I swap the scopes out as I want. Each of these is addressed in a followup post with a photo.

To start the ball rolling, here's an overall view of the rifle (and remember, I'm no Ichiro Superfotoguy!

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