Posted on 02/18/2007 11:32:57 AM PST by xsrdx
As I write this, I'm hunting coyotes in southeastern Wyoming with Eddie Stevenson, PR Manager for Remington Arms, Greg Dennison, who is senior research engineer for Remington, and several writers. We're testing Remington's brand new .17 cal Spitfire bullet on coyotes.
I must be living in a vacuum. The guides on our hunt tell me that the use of AR and AK rifles have a rapidly growing following among hunters, especially prairie dog hunters. I had no clue. Only once in my life have I ever seen anyone using one of these firearms.
I call them "assault" rifles, which may upset some people. Excuse me, maybe I'm a traditionalist, but I see no place for these weapons among our hunting fraternity. I'll go so far as to call them "terrorist" rifles. They tell me that some companies are producing assault rifles that are "tackdrivers."
Sorry, folks, in my humble opinion, these things have no place in hunting. We don't need to be lumped into the group of people who terrorize the world with them, which is an obvious concern. I've always been comfortable with the statement that hunters don't use assault rifles. We've always been proud of our "sporting firearms."
This really has me concerned. As hunters, we don't need the image of walking around the woods carrying one of these weapons. To most of the public, an assault rifle is a terrifying thing. Let's divorce ourselves from them. I say game departments should ban them from the praries and woods.
Not Hillary, but rather Rudy Guiliani another anti-gun traitor running as a republican.
"For the time being", huh? We'll see. For now, though, all OL has done is yank the blog page to cut off critical comments.
What does Remington do better or offer that the several-dozen other AR15 clone builders don't already offer? Possible answer: a Remington 5R-type barrel built for the AR15 or M4. Though there have been rumbles that some current-production Remington rifles are using Chinese-made barrels.
An all-stainless Remington R15 would be a little heavier than an allow Colt or clone. But I bet a lot of buyers would go for it if they'd produce it, particularly in a matrh-grade barrel version.
"Stand over the hole and blast the buggers out with sustained automatic fire?"
That's what grenades are for...
Seems that the Outdoor Life folks get the purpose of the 2nd Amend even if Dumbo Zumbo doesn't IT AIN'T ABOUT HUNTING!! (I wonder what happened to my neat RPG graphic in post 233 Is there a Zumbo in the admin mods?)
Yeah, I read it. CYA tactic.
Now you know, you wascally wabbit!
[Just quit dressing up like a girl rabbit, and the Fudds will leave you alone]
They are the only ones who will tolerate him now.
Maybe he can get a gig as a backup singer for the Dixie Chicks?
Ah, a Remington Nylon 66! Best .22 rifle ever made. Had one as a teenager in the late '60s. Fired nearly 20,000 rounds out of it and it NEVER, even once, jammed!
Nothing fancy about it, but it speaks loud and clear.
Catch & release fly-fishing snobs.
They've pulled his blog, hopefully he'll be out of a job. No more free guns, no more free gear, no more free hunting trips to exclusive "camps" the average hunter will never see, no more expense accounts, etc, etc.
He's right about hunting and military rifles.
But the Second Amendment isn't about hunting.
and Former outdoor writer
Anyone with the last name "Zumbo" already lands on my bad side!
There's a photoshop thread on www.AR15.com.
Funny stuff, but they're not ready for primetime at your level.
If you ever get the chance, pick up a rental video of the 1970 yawner-Adventure flick The Adventurers, based on a Harold Robbins novel that at least had Ernie Borgnine in a supporting role as *FatCat*.
Partially filmed in Colombia, the helpful Colombian military lent some troops as extras for a couple of battle scenes, and some armored vehicles for the grand battle of the revolutionaries taking over the National Palace in the capitol city of *Corteguay.* Unfortunately, the movie makers had brought the wrong blank ammo for the 7mm Mauser rifles used by the Colombian army at that time... No problemo, Señor; the officers in charge told their soldados to fire at each other using live ammo, but to just *miss over the heads by a little bit...*
Which they for the most part obediently did, but for one poor goof who took a hit on-camera and tumbled off the hillside perch where he'd looked so realistic! as he fell.... In fact, it looked sooooogood that they left it in the film. Now THAT is putting yourself into your part!
In the city scene with the armored cars, the extras portraying the revolutionary mob intent on stringing up the dictator bypass the street guarded by the cars' roadblock and slip around via the beach instead.
After the movie's completion and the actors had returned to Hollywood, the fraudulent election of Misael Pastrana Borrero in 1970 [in Colombia, not Hollywood] resulted in the defeat of the relatively populist candidate Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, followed by mass demonstrations that resulted in a State of Siege after the mob, you guessed it, evaded major streets blocked by military vehicles and instead came up the beach....
Unfortunately, Santafé de Bogotá, the capitol of Colombia, unlike fictional *Corteguay* is located in the country's interior, far from such helpful beaches. And Borrero and his National Front party stayed in power until 1974.
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