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    Quote Originally Posted by MistWolf View Post
    He did. He told us why retros work for him. I want to hear from others as well. What about your story? You mentioned wanting a rifle like you carried in basic. What is the attraction for you, I mean, why do you have nostalgia for the rifle you carried in basic?

    It's not that I don't understand the nostalgia. There are plenty of firearms that evoke nostalgia for me.

    What's your story?
    If you understand nostalgia then you know why anyone wants something that is not as good as it's modern equivalent. Hell I’ve been thinking of selling my 2005 Corvette to buy a 1979 Ferrari 308 with 4 Webers.

    I bought my first AR when I was 23 before the Clinton ban, it was an "A1" with A2 plastic, so two years ago I bought vintage A1 platic that still had the white basic training number on it just like the one I carried in basic in 1988.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MistWolf View Post
    He did. He told us why retros work for him. I want to hear from others as well. What about your story? You mentioned wanting a rifle like you carried in basic. What is the attraction for you, I mean, why do you have nostalgia for the rifle you carried in basic?

    It's not that I don't understand the nostalgia. There are plenty of firearms that evoke nostalgia for me.

    What's your story?
    If you understand nostalgia then you know why anyone wants something that is not as good as it's modern equivalent. Hell I’ve been thinking of selling my 2005 Corvette to buy a 1979 Ferrari 308 with 4 Webers.

    I bought my first AR when I was 23 before the Clinton ban, it was an "A1" with A2 plastic, so two years ago I bought vintage A1 platic that still had the white basic training number on it just like the one I carried in basic in 1988.

    Todd
    Colt/BCM

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    I bought my first AR in the early 70s other than upgrades over time. they are really almost the same gun to me. 'Other than the fun [ fun is the most important thing] of having the retro look"
    Last edited by SteveS; 08-23-12 at 16:06.

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    Can't say for sure, but I know it when I feel it.

    I grew up getting driven around in then new muscle cars.
    I had a 4 different colors of blue primer, heap of a, breaking down 69
    GTO when I was a teenager. I have a modern muscle car, and a sweet 69 GTO. It just feels right.

    I remember humming the SWAT tune and running and grabbing my plastic M16 just like the show started. I bought a used SP1 as a teenager in the early 80s. I still have it. At work I remember turning in our A1s for the 2s in the 80s. Then came the M4. I have modern ARs. I have an A1 based CAR. It just feels right.

    Things that were part of your life, and the history, and still working, you just feel it. Same reason you strap a leather sheathed Randal on your belt when a folder or smaller, mass produced Kydex sheathed knife on your kit would be just fine.

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    I bought my Colt AR-15A2 in '87, and I like it because I've been shooting it since then, and it's the only one that I own. I'm fortunate that my gunsmith who maintains it is an accomplished AR mechanic.

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    I was a small child at the end of the vietnam war. Small enough that the M16 is not nostalgic for me. But the musty smell of WW2 surplus stuff at the Army & Navy store, that is another story.

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    I used to have a nice Retro A1, I built with an original Colt upper and Colt barrel, everything was original "Retro" other than some of the internals my BCG and lower (Nodak A1)

    I REGRET selling that AR more than any other, it just had the perfect feel (and i diggg the retro look)

    man.....maybe its time to build another

    Only Con was, I am left handed and I would get smacked in the cheek by the brass! left welts.

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    in 1976 uncle handed me a m16... loved the bloody thing.

    years later ive scrounged up an old SP~1
    and with the help of no dak spud.and fulton armory
    ive built a 603 and then a 604 slickside.
    im now working on a slickside IDF kiss...carbine.
    nothing ..and i mean nothing ..or any rifle I've ever used ..feels as good
    as my slickside.
    peabody
    i started this life with nothing.....kept most of it.

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    Retro is just about remembering the old times not too much else to it. I still like to play old Atari games from time to time.

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    Ok,......go back to enjoying your Atari!

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