BG>  I remember when I was a kid in high school that I saw what later beca
BG>  the M-16 in a rifle that was .308 , in one of the gun books. I think 
BG>  now probably the Ar-10 . It was an Armalite rifle that looked a lot l
BG>  the M-16. I fired my first M-16 a few years later and was really
BG>  disappointed. They had taken a good design and put it into a .223 cal
BG>  a "Its made by Mattel, its swell" plastic stock. I think I would like
BG>  shooting the M-16 if it were in a decently heavier caliber. I have ha
BG>  several chances to buy Ar15's at pretty reasonable prices, but passed
BG>  up because I don't like that little caliber except in bolt action var
BG>  guns with big scopes. 
BG>Bob S. Glover
Armalite makes the AR-10 now in both .243 and .308.  You are not alone. 
There's a 
whole generation of people put off by plastic stocks.
Dennis Jenkins
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