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TOrrock
05-04-11, 18:12
I think it's fair to say that shooting techniques have evolved for the better since this ad was released....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Tim_Orrock/Gun%20ads/Colt-AR-15-Rifle-Advertisement-Law-Enforcement.jpg



Someone should work out the rate of inflation for what this would run in today's dollars....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Tim_Orrock/Colt%20Rifles/1964%20SP-1/EarlyARad.jpg
montanadave
05-04-11, 18:49
What year was this ad released or did I miss it?
SteyrAUG
05-04-11, 19:26
Someone should work out the rate of inflation for what this would run in today's dollars....



Well if the ad was from 1968 (just a guess) that $189 would be about $1175 today.
Moose-Knuckle
05-04-11, 19:49
I think it's fair to say that shooting techniques have evolved for the better since this ad was released....


I think he's got the Costa forward grip down pat.
skyugo
05-04-11, 21:11
is that guy's thumb through the sight tower?

love the cross draw on the pistol.


ah a simpler time. :D
ZRH
05-04-11, 22:18
He's using the magpul grip! zomg!

Seriously, that's an awkward looking way to shoot o.O
SteyrAUG
05-04-11, 22:36
He's using the magpul grip! zomg!

Seriously, that's an awkward looking way to shoot o.O

At least he is squared up with the target and not using that old fashion weaver stance.

:sarcastic:
Honu
05-04-11, 23:48
I had a early ARnwith thentriangle guards about 1980
Reminded me of my matel life like sound M-16 I had in the very early 70s wish they made toys like that still :)
SteyrAUG
05-05-11, 02:24
I had a early ARnwith thentriangle guards about 1980
Reminded me of my matel life like sound M-16 I had in the very early 70s wish they made toys like that still :)

They do, it's called airsoft.

It is the kind of shit we dreamed about as kids.
Honu
05-05-11, 10:36
I guess I meant for super little kids :)
Airsoft is good for teens though
TOrrock
05-05-11, 10:39
What year was this ad released or did I miss it?


Probably '66-'68.

I'm pretty sure the three prong flash suppressor had been replaced by the birdcage by early '68.
theblackknight
05-05-11, 11:42
" Eyes, Muzzle,Target" them give em the ole razzle dazzle
SteyrAUG
05-05-11, 13:56
I guess I meant for super little kids :)
Airsoft is good for teens though

I had my first real firearms in the 4th grade, including 9mms and .357s, exactly why couldn't a 4th grader have an airsoft?
markm
05-05-11, 14:01
I think he's got the Costa forward grip down pat.

That's what I was going to say. SCORPION is old school!!
Honu
05-05-11, 14:02
Guess they could ?

I was thinking when I was 6 we had our play M1 and M-16 good old metal cap guns and our GI-Joes
This was in the late 60s

So maybe was more thinking hat young ? :)
Heavy Metal
05-05-11, 15:34
is that guy's thumb through the sight tower?




Not for more than a few rounds it isn't.
citizensoldier16
05-06-11, 20:45
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Tim_Orrock/Gun%20ads/Colt-AR-15-Rifle-Advertisement-Law-Enforcement.jpg



Ahh, the age-old "thumb-in-the-FSB" hold. Lets see Costa try this one! :sarcastic: