Posted on 10/05/2002 6:15:53 AM PDT by SLB
Sounds like a dandy choice, and if it wiorks for you, swell. My kid favours the .303 #1 Mk III S.M.L.E. I gave him for his twelvth birthday, but the #5 carbine is admittedly handy, and I have a ladyfriend who favours hers. You may find that the Sierra .303 175-grain Match King bullet gives excellent results in your .303, as it does in my own #4MkI*[T] Enfield.
I'm mostly making do with a regular full-length M16A1 and a Remington 870 behind the pickup's folding seat, and a Mauser C96 *broomhandle* pistol with detatchable holster/stock in the motorbike's saddlebag as a *substitute carbine.* Even an M1A1 with folding stock in .30 caliber is a bit too long to fit in the lockable bags, and I don't want to mount one externally. I'd prefer for one to come as a surprise, should I need to haul it out.
Like most such choices, it's a compromise, but it works for me.
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There have been 432 murders in New York this year, and they have three things in common. First, they have nothing in common. Second, they have no motive. and third, they are all unsolved."
Just a flashback from a supposedly simpler time.
Just the opposite, gun control screws will be tightened. You will need an official police sticker visible on your car to transport your rifle to an approved range, good on that day only.
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