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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
    IIRC this picture taken in 1962 with Maria Fletcher is of the green AR-15.
    And she's chicken-winging it! [sarc]"HERETIC!!!"[/sarc]
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    Slightly OT but I never got the whole chicken wing spiel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
    Slightly OT but I never got the whole chicken wing spiel.
    Her right arm is chicken winged up. That was/is a marksmanshhip technique used to accentuate the pocket in your shoulder to snug the buttstock into your shoulder. Obviously, it isn't conducive to not getting your arm shot off if you are using cover.

    You never heard that before?

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    My prior was intended as humor, BTW... thanks to shoulder issues, chicken-winging with brace/stock in the crook of my elbow is the only way I can handle a rifle AT ALL. "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome" and all...
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    Quote Originally Posted by 26 Inf View Post
    Her right arm is chicken winged up. That was/is a marksmanshhip technique used to accentuate the pocket in your shoulder to snug the buttstock into your shoulder. Obviously, it isn't conducive to not getting your arm shot off if you are using cover.

    You never heard that before?
    No I fully understand the technique. I just dont get why some people (not saying Diamondback as I gleaned his sardonic tone) act like it is an affront to God to chickenwing. I am a lanky chap with long arms. Its the only way I am comfortable. If we are clearing out a dope house then sure, we are tucking our appendages in. But if I am on my personal time then I'm going to be comfortable. Esp. if I am using a 1907 sling.

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    Actually, that stock looks--though this may be perspective and camera-angle--almost like she has the recoil-pad in her elbow like I would.

    As I observed over at TFB (IIRC) to someone who was griping about the rifling twists, "These rifles aren't made for the frontline of today. Their purpose is to be a Nostalgia Trip for the veterans who were there, and a History Lesson written in steel for us who were not."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
    No I fully understand the technique. I just dont get why some people (not saying Diamondback as I gleaned his sardonic tone) act like it is an affront to God to chickenwing. I am a lanky chap with long arms. Its the only way I am comfortable. If we are clearing out a dope house then sure, we are tucking our appendages in. But if I am on my personal time then I'm going to be comfortable. Esp. if I am using a 1907 sling.
    Well...there's your problem right there. Ain't nobody got time for that real deal "marksmanship" anymore, especially since it's sexist- it says "Man" right in the middle. [/snarkymillenial]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
    IIRC this picture taken in 1962 with Maria Fletcher is of the green AR-15. But it is in black and white. Notice the waffle mag and the lighter shade on the furniture



    M16 wasnt a military designation until 1964.
    By then "The Man" started screwing with them.

    ETA Bear in mind the only place you will see green AR15s is in a museum. The olive drab is dark enough that all B&W pics make them look like regular black rifles. The color used is not like "modern" OD. Its weird.
    I read The Firearms Blog article with those pics included. The irony is the date they were published: Nov. 22, 1963.

    http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...ng-edge-rifle/
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    Quote Originally Posted by ABNAK View Post
    I read The Firearms Blog article with those pics included. The irony is the date they were published: Nov. 22, 1963.

    http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...ng-edge-rifle/
    Just a little tooooo ironic.
    And, yeah, I really do think
    /Alanis


    But in one of those pics the furniture does have a lighter shade plus the OG three prong peculiar to the USAF.

    That's an interesting scope and not like the Colt sport scopes. Would love to see a color photo of it.

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    Just imagine how the media would be shittin' kittens today if Miss America 2017 did the same thing with today's equivalent rifle...
    You really have to ask why Conservatives have guns? Because Liberals block freeways, burn cities, throw Molotov cocktails, loot, turn over cop cars, and think this behavior is Socially Acceptable.
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