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Posted on 09/14/2010 4:30:01 PM PDT by STD
Dear FReepers,
Over the years, a vanity post listing favorite sidearms, long guns and hunting rifles has appearred on FR with predictable regularity. Considering the highly popular and enthusiastic responses, I'd like to learn more from the sophisticated shooters on this forum about optics that you might bet your life on.
Are many of you using ACOG, Trijicon, night vision, or infrared riflescopes? After seeing our Marines using the CQB sights that had various Bible verses listed upon them, I decided to learn more. I'm happy to report to you that our troops are getting wonderful optics packages, which are made right here in the good ol' USA.
I'd like to ask the more experienced shooters and veterans out there about the whole litany of new technologies which our soldiers are taking into battle.
What scopes do you find the most useful when hunting or doing any type of shooting? What products have enhanced your shooting capabilities the most?
What other small arms accessories do you find the most helpful in your self defense and tactical situations. Any details about slings, holsters, magazines and favorite hideout rigs would also be useful.
Recently, I purchased some wonderful AR mags from Magpul Industries. They replace metallic Colt mags that came new with a 20 year old marksman carbine. Have any of you used the double magazine configuration to make switching out an empty easier? Do you have much use from the magazine loops that Magpul makes to quickly remove spent magazines? Any helpful tips about making your ARs AKs M1A1's more user friendly and effective are most welcome.
Come on people, share the goodstuff with your FRiends at FR. Thanks in advance.
STD
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ANGLICO?
I got a block on CAS, but that was it. Never got to play with it.
I think I like the CHEVRON over the triangle but you are correct the tip of the triangle is a razor sharp aiming point.
If you have a PVS-14, why mount it on the rifle, and be limited to night vision only through a shouldered rifle?
Put an IR laser on the rifle, and the 14 on your head, I’d suggest.
Get Two........:o)
I wish I could afford one!
Keep writing buddy........:o)
Glad to see ya took a break and came out of the authors cave !
If I had another I’d give it to ya ! FelloffatruckRus is back in business. Maybe it will find one !
Stay safe !
I never see their truck in my neighborhood.
:^O
I went through the Marines' Amphibious Warfare School for my AOC (Army). A whole section of the course was on ANGLICO.
Redleg?
I was branched infantry, actually. I really gave artillery a lot of thought (the math was so much fun) but I loved sleeping in different mud every night. Too much of a free spirit to be tied to the trains.
Now that I'm a geezer, I tie my butt to the car seat everywhere I go.
IMO, the Micro T-1 is the s**t. Light, fast, it'll do NV and it's an Aimpoint.
For more ins and outs, here's a M4carbine.net thread discussing the T-1.
The PVS-14 comes with the head harness. With the right mount you can go back and forth from the rifle to the harness somewhat quickly. That harness however gets rough to wear after a while. They don't call it the "skull crusher" for nothing. It's also much more awkward to shoot with the harness as opposed to having it mounted on the rifle.
As for lasers, I'm not too keen on them with rifles. They often don't keep their zero well, and even if zeroed, they're touch-and-go at farther distances. < valley girl>Lasers are soooooo 1998< /valley girl>
With the PVS-14 behind a zeroed optic, you know that if you're seeing it you're likely hitting it.
Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choices!
I’m nowhere near PV$-14 league.
You're not?
Dammit. I figured since we've known each other on FR for so long and that you're a Florida homeboy and that you're a renowned author, I'd borrow the $3,500 from you.
You have Freepmail.
LOL! Hey, I hadta ask!
When I bought my house, I soon learned to associate my new county with the smell of skunk. Finally came the day when one got smushed on the road in front of my neighbor’s house. Seeing as how nice he and his wife had been to me, I truly intended to dispose of the carcass for them. I got up there next to the thing, took a look at my short-handled shovel, and decided I wanted to keep it too much to use it. (Even breathing through my mouth my sinuses burned.) Having approached the disgusting mess with the best of intentions, I crept away with my tail between my legs.
If you can ever hunt down a copy of Bill Mauldin’s “A Sort of a Saga” about his childhood in rural New Mexico, it’s got an interesting story about skunks.
Thanks. I’ll bet the whole book is a great read.
Was that a criterion?
While I won’t answer for the FReeper to whom I posted... yeppers! For me it certainly is. :-D
Well, Daddy always said “Don’t shoot anything you’re not willing to kill, and DON’T POINT THE GUN TOWARDS THE HOUSE!”
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