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    Cmon you dont know what your missing pitfall is awesome.

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    Retro is where it's at!



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    Quote Originally Posted by marswallace View Post
    Hi guys (first message )

    why retro? because it looks so special forces...

    Today we need to attach to our rifles flashlights, dots, grips, infrared lasers... Troy just released a GPS stock for AR15... and a railed coffee machine is on its way

    Soldiers needs tons of equipments... But give a SF operator a knife and he won't need anything else.
    So that it is, for me... retro rifles look SF.

    Nowdays I can barely imagine someone in the jungle without a camelback... so maximum respect!!
    Wasn't there a rifle many moons ago that had a coffee grinder in the butt stock?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd00000 View Post
    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.

    A bit off topic but a dear friend of mine has a 328 and 2 years ago I did the cam belts, checked the valves replaced the A/c lines that ran from the engine compartment to the condenser and replaced all the fuel and assorted "rubber" lines. It is a beautiful car but you don't want to work on it!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dustin Cantrell View Post
    Wasn't there a rifle many moons ago that had a coffee grinder in the butt stock?
    Yup, and based off Will's comment, I believe he said it was the worst cup of coffee he's ever had. (I used to like that show, wish they made better products... )
    THE MORE YOU SWEAT IN TRAINING, THE LESS YOU BLEED IN BATTLE

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    For me, I want to build one like what I was issued and carried while I was in the USAF Security Police.

    I was issued an M-16. Serial #300889. It was the 20" pencil barrel slick side, triangle handguards, no forward assist.

    In addition, I was issued a S&W Model 15 .38 special revolver. Plain blue finish. (can't remember the serial number on that one)

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    Quote Originally Posted by hk_shootr View Post
    Retro is where it's at!


    Awesome looking rifle.

    Quote Originally Posted by Firecop203 View Post
    For me, I want to build one like what I was issued and carried while I was in the USAF Security Police.

    I was issued an M-16. Serial #300889. It was the 20" pencil barrel slick side, triangle handguards, no forward assist.

    In addition, I was issued a S&W Model 15 .38 special revolver. Plain blue finish. (can't remember the serial number on that one)
    That's what it's about for me too. What I carried. I'm on the left. With my M16 A2 and I'm bad I don't freaking remember the serial number. I do remember my first few duty pistols, PZ345 and BAR305, both G23's, I still own PZ345.
    "Real men have always needed to know what time it is so they are at the airfield on time, pumping rounds into savages at the right time, etc. Being able to see such in the dark while light weights were comfy in bed without using a light required luminous material." -Originally Posted by ramairthree

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    RETRO

    I was issued a M16A1 in 1984.Then in 1986 we got the M16A2.
    I wanted the A1 back.Then I wanted both.Its like candy one of each please.

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    I want. build one for fun and plinking. That's about it.

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    Because when I see one I think back to the days when girls wore them jeans that zipped up front to back and the hallways of the school smelled like aqua hairspray...
    The OG black rifle barely dressed and ready to rock just like girls of the eighties
    "The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory"
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