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I put a short SHOT report on that long old XM-8 rifle thread.

One funny story. We have an Accuracy Int'l (British) sniper rifle in our booth, showing off our AI version butt monopod. (Accu-Shot) I was talking to a British gent about 60 years old for a half hour about everything under the sun: my book, rifles, etc. At the end he gave me a card. "Technical Director, AI." He was the designer and lead engineer for their rifles for the last 25 years! The inventor of the world's best sniper rifle! And here I was shooting the breeze with him.

I mentioned that my book was similar to the Brit novelist Gerald Seymour's superb military/espionage thrillers. He said he had to take an older AI rifle (LR-96?) down to London for photos for the cover of one of Seymour's books, "At Close Quarters." That's the one where the good guy does a sniper mission against a terrorist in the Bekaa Valley. I'm looking at my copy now, and there on the cover is that exotic looking AI rifle, wth the green stock.

And there I was at the SHOT Show, talking about books and guns with the AI's inventor. How about THAT!