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A number of people stating they saw "Mattel" on M16s.
http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=66299
John
If you spend much time around the guys who really, really know their craft, and who truly live this stuff, you tend to find that they are very soft-spoken and modest -- almost to the extreme. To my mind, that is a model worthy of emulation
AC
I think the whole Mattel thing was a standing joke started back in the 60s by a lot of Vietnam vets. Remember those comments well back when I was in Nam.
I think what is happening here is that many people saw Mattel Marauders in a store, picked it up, noticed some of the similarities to the M-16, and then took note of it. This many years later, their memories have fused the two events together and they associate the toy with the actual rifle.
The Mattel Marauder says Mattel right next to where the pistol grip attaches to the lower receiver.
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John
If you spend much time around the guys who really, really know their craft, and who truly live this stuff, you tend to find that they are very soft-spoken and modest -- almost to the extreme. To my mind, that is a model worthy of emulation
AC
Kind of funny how there are ZERO pictures of any of these so-called Mattel parts on real guns anywhere. Guess how many people swore they were issued a Bushmaster? Or the few guys that surface every now and again to swear they have a friend in Ranger Batt. or some other unit claiming they are using Bushmasters because they are more reliable.
Or the Army issued them during the first Gulf War because we were running out of rifles.
In the last 27 years that I have been shooting, using and working on AR's I have never once seen a credible source for any of these rumors. I'm sure that there are plenty of others who will say the same.
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This thread has outlived it's usefulness.
Bill Tidler Jr.
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It doesn't really matter. I myself have more than 40 years behind centerfire rifles, beginning with my dads AR-180 when I was 8 years old. I suppose that to you I seem like someone who has seen a UFO. That is OK. I know what I saw. I spent a whole day shooting the M-16 in question. We can agree to disagree and move forward.![]()
John
If you spend much time around the guys who really, really know their craft, and who truly live this stuff, you tend to find that they are very soft-spoken and modest -- almost to the extreme. To my mind, that is a model worthy of emulation
AC
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