Seems to be the coming thing, as per the French FAMAS *Clarion and the Steyr AUG/USR:
Posted on 05/30/2002 12:33:01 AM PDT by fella
Seems to be the coming thing, as per the French FAMAS *Clarion and the Steyr AUG/USR:
I don't reckon you'd be interested in something along these lines, then:
What is so hard about just offering the real deal. Jeez!
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What is so hard about just offering the real deal. Jeez!
I don't know about that- I'm quite found of the Magul, and the reliability of the Galil even in the worst of conditions is such that the shorty *Glilon* version remains the issue weapon for Israeli tank crews, having replaced the venerable Uzi SMG.
But I'm after a good carbine for use on my motorbike, and ambidex or left-hand operation is a highly desirable feature. If necessary, I'll use a lever-action, not at all a bad choice, but a semiauto would be nicer.
-archy-/-
You beat me to it. This is a foul slander, a horrible canard, and its author should be condemned to carrying a pearl-handled Lorcin for the rest of his days. In a fur-covered external holster. With a trigger lock.
Cocked, locked, and ready to rock. God bless John Moses Browning...
As for the Glilon, yeah, it's very cool. So many toys, so few $$$... $;-)
A moment of silence...
Got a couple of them, too. From the CMP; nothing better than having such a nice rifle delivered right to your door! Damn fine rifles. Afer using mine for a day, my brother went and bought one, too.
John Garand was indeed a genius.
More and more "operators" have taken to wearing gloves while in combat. Whether the gloves are the thicker ones for protection against cold, or the thinner ones for protection against abrasion, they tend to fill up a standard trigger guard rather quickly. By enlarging the trigger guard to protect the entire front surface of the grip, they made it easier to get the gloved hand (WITH FINGER OFF OF THE TRIGGER UNTIL ON TARGET!!) into a firing grip. The M-16 rifle has a hinged trigger guard that is supposed to allow for safer "glove-handed" firing - works "okay" with thin gloves, but not with heavy "anti-frostbite" type winter gloves. With heavy gloves and an M-16 off safe, the risk of an unintended discharge is high - hence the reason we used to cut the index finger off of the old D3 gloves when operating in a cold environment.
Regards,
Methinks Ami must know someone in the FAA.....
As for the Glilon, yeah, it's very cool. So many toys, so few $$$... $;-)
The teardrop Enduro saddlebags on my old BMW allowed for an overall length of no more than 21 inches max, which meant that with a 16-inch barrel, there was room for a rifle with an action no more than 5 inches long, unless I went with something with a removable barrel- not the best way to get consistant good accuracy. Neither a #4 Enfield, US .30 carbine nor AR15 action was short enough, so my initial temporary pick was a rifled-bore 870 with dismountable barrel, followed by a semi-Uzi carbine, not bad, but hardly offering the serious rifle performance I wanted.
My next two candidates were a WWII Johnson semiauto rifle, which had a detatchable barrel all right, and to which a folding stock could be adapted, or a Steyr AUG, at that time running around $250. Another possibility was a Remington 740 or 742 rifle with the folding stock from an 870 shotgun fitted- they interchange okay, though the trigger guard takes a little rework on some.
Since then, a pal has gotten that bike and I'm working on another one, with the saddlebag/pannier possibilitiesnot finalized yet; obviously, something a bit longer across the diagonal is desirable. And now that the RobArms M96 *Expeditionary Rifle* with it's quick-change barrel is available, that too is a possible choice.
But it beats my high school days when my answer was a shoulder-stocked Mauser *Bolo* in the underseat toolbox of my 500 Triumph. Ah, them were the days.... -archy-/-
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