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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    Here's what some dude posted on TOS in response to the long rail nonsense of late...


    Didn't the Joker in one of the Batman movies use that?

    Nothing wrong with a long handguard for those that know how to shoot well fast. Some people can and some people can't. The world is an unfair place.

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    I remember seeing a picture of Kyle Lamb on his website years ago with a long carbon fiber tube (forget which brand) with the front sight sticking out of a slot cut in the top of it. I had no idea who he was but I thought it "looked cool" so I emailed him to ask about it, and he replied with (IIRC) a pretty in-depth response. I never wound up going that route but it was the first time I had seen someone using a short(er) barrel with a long tube, and I really liked that it kept the front sight instead of going to a gas block.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Katar View Post
    Some company should market a tactical hand extender. That'll REALLY get that support/weak/non-dominant/reaction hand out there!

    Someone has...

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    you can tell thats a photoshop, but amusing nonetheless

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForTehNguyen View Post
    you can tell thats a photoshop, but amusing nonetheless
    No way: that's the new Troy TRX Extreme 36"

    http://store.troyind.com/36_TRX_Extr...i-s36bt-00.htm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moose-Knuckle View Post
    Someone has...

    I've had that toy for >20 years, you won't believe how handy it is!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuukka View Post
    Something like this?



    Picture from http://www.tacticalinsider.com/bio.html

    Yeah, it did look like that. It was back in '95 and I thought it was a pretty good way to set up the rifle. Not long after that Knights come out with a railed forend.
    I just checked out the guys website. Although I don't know him, I know some of the guys in the pictures. The rifle I described above belonged to one of the members of his unit. They got all the cool stuff.
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    As you mentioned it is interesting to see some of the parallels in the, shooting technique, optic and handguard development, with regards to actual military use and IPSC/3 gun shooting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuukka View Post
    As you mentioned it is interesting to see some of the parallels in the, shooting technique, optic and handguard development, with regards to actual military use and IPSC/3 gun shooting.
    A lot of current and/or former US Military & LE are also current and/or former competitors.

    To name a few: Larry Vickers, Kyle Lamb, Travis Haley, Scott Warren, Ernest Langdon, Phil Strader, and Erik Lund.

    The ones who take their jobs seriously seek out shooting and training on their own outside of their own agency to keep up their skill-set.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N.Franklin View Post
    Im toying with a rifle setup where my support hand is placed approx. 4" from the muzzle (16" barrel), what I have been doing is keeping the rifle low but muzzle in a high-ready posture, muzzle being at a similar height and distance from the body as you would be with a pistol at the high ready. The rifle is not fully extended until the threat emerges, giving you the option to point and shoot or punch the rifle out into a conventional shooting stance depending on distance to the threat. The biggest arguement I see with running a rifle indoors is that a threat can grab and manipulate your weapon by the barrel. Keeping the muzzle closer to your body with the support hand closer to the muzzle minimizes this problem and gives you leverage in the rifle in the instance that something like this happens. Your support hand being the pivot point and your firing hand controlling the longer end of the lever, you keep the advantage.

    Nice looking set-up, have you run it without the Pig to see how the less weight changes the balance?

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