Show your guns!

[Nutty4Guns]

That's what she said.

Bless your heart.

 

[kopcicle]

8.5" .458 SOCOM and a can? Just thinking out loud

And tell them it's a 10-round mag

 

[sobo]

Bless your heart.

You could... if he had one...

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

Just finished putting this puppy together; been gathering pieces / parts for a bit now, and it finally came together. Actually, I still need to replace the grip with a correct-for-the-period one. I'll be getting that in a couple of weeks (next gun show).

 

[sobo]

Just finished putting this puppy together; been gathering pieces / parts for a bit now, and it finally came together. Actually, I still need to replace the grip with a correct-for-the-period one. I'll be getting that in a couple of weeks (next gun show).

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Looks to me to be an XM-177 Colt Commando...

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

An XM177E1 to be specific. The best I could do was an SP1 upper, but the majority of the remainder is fairly period correct; or as they say, "close enough for Government work."

 

[sobo]

An XM177E1 to be specific. The best I could do was an SP1 upper, but the majority of the remainder is fairly period correct; or as they say, "close enough for Government work."

I have a Colt Sporter II that looks really quite similar to that XM-177 of your'n. I'll see if I can dig up a pic. Or just take a new one...

ETA: Looks like I'ma gonna hafta go dig it out of the safe to get a pic. I'll do it after I fix n' eat my lamb choppers fo' dinna...

 

[Ura-Ki]

Just finished putting this puppy together; been gathering pieces / parts for a bit now, and it finally came together. Actually, I still need to replace the grip with a correct-for-the-period one. I'll be getting that in a couple of weeks (next gun show).

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Love the Retros! Here's my ( Colt 607) CAR-16 commando frankinCAR
A-2 Match upper, Radin charging handle, and Socom barrel, standard lower with early no finger bump pistol grip and ultra rare stock!

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

Sweet! I also just built a clone 623 "Irene", just for the fun of it.

 

[sobo]

OK, so I dug her out from waaaaaay back in the safe for ya, @Hooyah DeepSea...

She's a Colt A2 Sporter II, A1 upper w/teardrop FA, no brass deflector, A1 slabside lower, and the barrel has been cut down to 10½" and fitted w/peened 6-port, 5½" moderator. Stock, grip, trigger guard, and handguard have been replaced with more modern furniture than the original (stock=PSA, all else=Magpul). The pivot pin (originally fitted w/screw pin) has been replaced with a QR pin, and the hammer and trigger springs have been replaced with red ones. S/N of SP31XXXX places her earlier than 1985, so she's a pre-ban beauty.

I got her from my brother, and he bought her NIB, so she's the oldest AR-pattern rifle I have, out of many. This is the same rifle that we used to use in that old farmer's field BITD to shoot groundchunks that would dig holes in his cow pasture. Then his cows would step in the holes and break their legs, so then he had to shoot them and slaughter them before they were really beefed up and finished. So he paid me and my brother $1 for each groundchunk tail we'd bring him at the end of a day's shooting. That old man kept us in beer and ammo for years...



Ever since that unfortunate boating accident a few years ago in which her bumpstock was tragically lost, she's been living in the back of the safe. That was fun, that cackling laugh that used to emanate from me when we'd dump a mag in about 3 seconds, back when ammo was cheap...

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[Hooyah DeepSea]

I have an old 'Nam vet who was in loaches back in the day, who wants something similar to his helo gun. So, it looks like I'll be building another shortly.

 

[sobo]

I have an old 'Nam vet who was in loaches back in the day, who wants something similar to his helo gun. So, it looks like I'll be building another shortly.

I had to look up "Loaches"...

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

Freakin youngsters . . .

Officially called a Cayuse, (Army helos are all named after Native American tribes) the OH-6 helicopter, commonly called a 'Loach' was used primarily for light observation and scouting missions.

 

[sobo]

Freakin youngsters . . .

I wouldn't call 63 (tomorrow! ) a "freaking youngster", although I'm obviously younger than by a few years, since I wasn't old enough to serve in Vietnam at the time it was goin' on...

Officially called a Cayuse, (military helos are all named after Native American tribes) the OH-6 helicopter, commonly called a 'Loach' was used primarily for light observation and scouting missions.

I am aware that all US Army helos are named after Native American tribes. I'm pretty sure that does not universally apply across the entire US military apparatus. Consider, say, the US Navy's helos...

 

[nammac]

@sobo


Hippo birdies two ewes
Hippo birdies two ewes
Hippo birdies two ewes @sobo
Hippo birdies two ewes

Happy Birthday Amigo!!!

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

I've only got you by 3 years in age, but I did 20 in the Navy, so real familiar with mil-stuff.

 

[sobo]

I've only got you by 3 years in age, but I did 20 in the Navy, so real familiar with mil-stuff.

Been around mil-stuff almost my entire life, all over the world. Plus read about it like it was goin' outta style. So, while not "real familiar", I can hold my own...
No sense measuring dicks, here, yunno... Can we get back to talking about XM-177s?

 

[Member 24198]

@sobo


Hippo birdies two ewes
Hippo birdies two ewes
Hippo birdies two ewes @sobo
Hippo birdies two ewes

Happy Birthday Amigo!!!

Tomorrow dudesky.

 

[sobo]

Tomorrow dudesky.

And I think that third line is s'pozed to be sump'n like:

Hippo birdies, deer sobo...

 

[Member 24198]

And I think that third line is s'pozed to be sump'n like:

Hippo birdies, deer sobo...

So when is the spanking?