Read his “about me” page. He wrote a very funny and interesting bio.
That really IS a wonderful read - thanks for directing me to that.
Concerning HK - Gotta say, I own a cheap G3 knock-off bought undocumented at a gun show a while back. Damnedest erogonomics I’ver ever seen. It’ll misfire equally well on ALL .308 ammo, unlike my SA M1A and my DSA FAL knock-off, which won’t hardly shoot the cheap surlus stuff at all, but do so-so on the primo stuff (after being sent back to the factory for a defective extractor and ejector, in that order).
So, the upshot is that the G3 knock-off is buried off-site with several cases of the shitty ammo as part of my back-up SHTF cache: I certainly hope it never gets to the point where I have to rely on it to stay alive! There’s also a buried old AK with several cases of ammo buried elsewhere as well, and that’ll be my first choice: less accurate, but reliable as hell. And the Ruskies traditionally have built better battle rifles than the Germans anyway.