BG>Maintain thy air speed, else the ground will come up and slap thee stupid!
BG> MS> I do think that we could have designed a better rifle, but I
  > MS> don't think that we can now. From what I've seen, the US is fast
  > MS> losing it's competency to design weapons.
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  > MS> X SLMR 2.1a X Live from Nevada, the Afghanistan of North America!!
BG>  I remember when I was a kid in high school that I saw what later became
  >  the M-16 in a rifle that was .308 , in one of the gun books. I think it 
is
  >  now probably the Ar-10 . It was an Armalite rifle that looked a lot like
  >  the M-16. I fired my first M-16 a few years later and was really
  >  disappointed. They had taken a good design and put it into a .223 cal 
nd
  >  a "Its made by Mattel, its swell" plastic stock. I think I would like
  >  shooting the M-16 if it were in a decently heavier caliber. I have had
  >  several chances to buy Ar15's at pretty reasonable prices, but passed 
them
  >  up because I don't like that little caliber except in bolt action 
armint
  >  guns with big scopes.
        Exactly, and I much prefer guns with larger calibers and big
scopes.
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 X SLMR 2.1a X What has four legs and an arm? A happy Pit Bull!!
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