Betty

My Bushmaster is my "fun gun." I can spend a lot of time enjoying shooting without spending a lot of time reloading. It's light, easy for me to disassemble and clean, and easy and accurate to shoot. If it comes to it, it can be a SHTF gun.

Mine's the 25th Anniversary Modular carbine with an EoTech 512 and Surefire M95 mounted on it.



Rats in the barn, beware!

Most of what I have are no-frills rifles or beaters. I have an AR because I can, because it's fun, and I enjoy having at least one gun with some bells n' whistles on it.

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"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." - Yoshimi Ishikawa

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pgrass101

Love the "Deer Bazooka"

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I am waiting on my personal bailout!!!

Janq

Antis and those who know little would retort don't miss or as much worked fine for folks who hunted wolf, coyote, and allmanner of bear back in the day.
Ignoring or ignorant of how many persons missed or wounded an animal only to be chased down and mauled/killed.

Black powder muzzle loaders are suitable for the coyote & bear task, although technology has allowed us wider margin of safety as well as efficiency toward a task. This applies across the board and up to two legged predators as well.

- Janq

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"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
Monday, March 12, 2007 -- Op Ed -- The Washington Post

Nate

And what the heck are they doing on the INTERNET?! Shouldn't they be busying chiseling their tripe via a crudely fashioned hammer and pointy rock into a piece of granite?

After all, it worked fine for people back in the day.

It's just so hard sometimes to not simply say, "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" to these people.

OPFOR

Betty, nice set up. I have the same optics and light (including dual-use tailcap!) on my M4. Wish I had a railed gas-block instead of the stardard front sights, but the EOTech cowitnesses with the iron sights (GG&G BUIS on the back) pretty well. Within 100m (or farther, on a good day), that set up is as close to perfection as I've found yet.

Also, I'm putting that same gear on a Colt 9mm SMG, but with the fixed carrying handle, I have to use a cantilever mount and this looks pretty odd on such a short barreled weapon. Better than having it mounted a foot and a half above the bore though... :)

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"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

MD_Willington

Regular rifle is like a open ended box wrench, pretty standard gets the job done.

AR, AK Etc is like a ratchet and socket, just another tool, gets the job done a bit quicker

My tool box has SAE & Metric wrenches and sockets... why not my gun safe?


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Redneck Repairs

To me at least pretty is as pretty does . Go shoot a few of them and then report back to us as to how good or bad you find them .

TN_Mike

The proper use for a handgun is to fight your way to your rifle. (AR / AK)

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Barry Goldwater 1968

swedgin

I think if Thomas Jefferson were alive he'd trade his old musket for a scary black rifle. You just keep buyin' guns that are okayed by the democrazis and I'll buy the ones our fore fathers wanted me to have. We are not free unless the government leaves us the power to oppose them. Not that there will ever be a need but it's the security blanket for your liberties.

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If he was gonna decorate his bar with my friend, he shoulda armed himself.

Dakotaranger

I aggree with you. I have a hard time understanding where those that try to tell us that the Founders never concidered a multi-round weapon would ever exist, in spite of the fact that hundreds of years before the constitution the chinese developed a mulit round weapon, Da Vinci had a design in his notebooks, and even the Ancient Romans had a Balista that was pretty close to a full-auto weapon.

The Founders truely believed that the government should be afraid of the populace...not the other way around. It's not that any of us want to overthrow the government though.

Since we are citizens and not subjects our Founders would expect us to have the state of the art weapons in private hands.

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"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.
They are left in full possession of them."
Zacharia Johnson (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,25 June 1778)"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." ~Alexander Hamilton