Ron Paul's Rifles - photos only please!

[devil21]

tragic boating accident

 

[Jack Parsons]

Wow, we have a very similar rifle setup, at first glance I actually thought it was mine for a second.

right on, how do you like the stock?

 

[SWATH]

right on, how do you like the stock?

I love it. It is heavy, but in the right place I guess. It balances far better than the standard M4 collapsible but it certainly weighs the whole rifle down. It's a trade off, but worth it for me.

 

[UnReconstructed]

lol @ the flak jacket... might as well build you a vest out of a sponge

that thing has never saved anyone and is only good for doing PT in... or fold it to rest your head on while you're waiting for the plane.

 

[cheapseats]

Figure rifle and ammunition coming in at around 16 pounds, with the pistol and load bearing gear loaded at another 15 or so. Add the helmet and body armor to get to almost 50 pounds in this configuration - a good set of level 4 armor would be about 25 pounds in my size. Add in the stuff in the rucksack and it easily tops 85 pounds, but short of 100. Body armor and rucksacks usually do not play nice with each other, so I try to wear one and carry the other.

I'll take that as an ixnay on camouflaged carts with hydraulic lifts.

I hated that stupid "Army of One" slogan because even I have to get some sleep sometime, so I have a duffle bag of stuff to help out a few patriots to help me out.

I console myself about not having a stash of stuff for guardian angels to protect me while I sleep by remembering that I don't have a stash of stuff to protect me while I'm awake. My last night of full and normal sleep was October 13, 2005.

As you can see - some load bearing gear, helmets, armor and weapons. I consider using the A1s for a home defense weapon and was going to build an M4 style "pink rifle" for the GF. Which brings me to my concept of support roles for the guys out manning the defensive screen.

I do NOT mean to offend, definitely, you are one of the posters for whom I have greatest regard. Rather, to avoid reproach for not posting photos AND to emphasize a different point, I will suggest that nothing sez "Your services will never be required" like pink camouflage and pink guns.

Nuthin' for nuthin' but, if push ever DOES come to shove, a sortie would have to occur in a Victoria's Secret or Disney store for pink camouflage to constitute camouflage.

At least we've clarified that you're taken -- I can't believe I'm the only female who wondered.

There is a need for some guys, either a bit gimpy or long in the tooth, no longer capable of fighting it out in the field physically. They can make the supply run to and from base to the guys on an operation.

I can console myself about your unavailability by assuming you to be too young for me anyway. Having turned 53 this month and having a hitch in my giddy-up, courtesy a couple surgeons who oversold and underperformed surgery, I respectfully suggest that "a bit gimpy" and "long in the tooth" are not the best descriptive choices for citizens who are constrained to supporting roles.

Where, I ask, would y'all be without supplies? New Hampshire during a full-out blockade, that's where you'd be.

I really don't like the idea of having women in the fighting units, beyond the obvious, the upper body strength to carry this crap around is not there...

Agreed. The misguided fight for women to go into combat ranks right up there with Army Of One.

I am thinking of an adorable waitress and VETERAN who served us lunch at a sports bar in Georgia. She was determined to avoid the college debt with which her siblings were saddled, ergo the "Service." Alas, after training and a "great time" in Germany, when it was time to deploy to Iraq, it was determined that she could not carry the load. Lo and behold, the training had compromised her back enough for an Honorable Discharge. Hence the waitressing job for "spending money," while she attends classes on whatever G.I. bill.

...and what kind of society sends its women out to fight?

Spoken by a man who is perhaps sufficiently chivalrous that he is unaware that others do not share his nobility? I have observed that tendency among principled men -- notably, attributing to others virtues of their own. It is a mistake.

What kind of a society takes a she-was-asking-for-it attitude to violence perpetrated upon American women who wander America alone or after dark?

What kind of a society pretty much blows off the new trend of simply killing inconvenient wives and girlfriends?

What kind of a society brooks a Senate who, in 2008, still votes NO! NOT YET EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN!? Many of whom are single and who, being with no man and lower earnings, are simply left to fend for themselves?

What kind of a society makes media spectacles of mass school murders that feature weaponry (and dead guys as well as dead girls), while letting go unchecked a procession of female college co-eds who have been snatched off ostensibly safe sidewalks and brutally murdered? Can you imagine being THOSE parents? You think you've finally MADE IT, really DONE IT -- raised an intellectually inquisitive person who is sufficiently accomplished and promising that they have been accepted into a university -- you think you're GOLD, and then you get the ever-so-sorry-but-your-daughter-was-murdered call?

Women can play a key role at the operations base gathering supplies, managing inventory, allocating resources, and maintaining communications. Those that want to be part of the fight can wear the uniform and be treated as combatants while performing these vital tasks, and those that wish to be civilain can do those things not strictly of a military character as permitted under the laws and customs of war - acquiring supplies that have both civil and military uses (food, fuel, shelter).

Alrighty then, now I am and I am NOT getting somewhere.

Shall the Bit Gimpy and the Long In The Tooth guess about the supplies and where to deliver them? In a movie, this is where I'd say "take me to your leader" but then I remember that the Resistance is leaderless.

Again with respect, this bit-gimpy-and-long-in-the-tooth Resistor suggests that lack of leadership is a premier problem.

 

[B964]

My service grade CMP M1 Carbine made it after only 6 months. the ammo has not show up yet. Not as nice as the service grade Garands I got last year, but it will do.

 

[Pericles]

I'll take that as an ixnay on camouflaged carts with hydraulic lifts.





I console myself about not having a stash of stuff for guardian angels to protect me while I sleep by remembering that I don't have a stash of stuff to protect me while I'm awake. My last night of full and normal sleep was October 13, 2005.

I do NOT mean to offend, definitely, you are one of the posters for whom I have greatest regard. Rather, to avoid reproach for not posting photos AND to emphasize a different point, I will suggest that nothing sez "Your services will never be required" like pink camouflage and pink guns.


Nuthin' for nuthin' but, if push ever DOES come to shove, a sortie would have to occur in a Victoria's Secret or Disney store for pink camouflage to constitute camouflage.

At least we've clarified that you're taken -- I can't believe I'm the only female who wondered.





I can console myself about your unavailability by assuming you to be too young for me anyway. Having turned 53 this month and having a hitch in my giddy-up, courtesy a couple surgeons who oversold and underperformed surgery, I respectfully suggest that "a bit gimpy" and "long in the tooth" are not the best descriptive choices for citizens who are constrained to supporting roles.

Where, I ask, would y'all be without supplies? New Hampshire during a full-out blockade, that's where you'd be.





Agreed. The misguided fight for women to go into combat ranks right up there with Army Of One.

I am thinking of an adorable waitress and VETERAN who served us lunch at a sports bar in Georgia. She was determined to avoid the college debt with which her siblings were saddled, ergo the "Service." Alas, after training and a "great time" in Germany, when it was time to deploy to Iraq, it was determined that she could not carry the load. Lo and behold, the training had compromised her back enough for an Honorable Discharge. Hence the waitressing job for "spending money," while she attends classes on whatever G.I. bill.





Spoken by a man who is perhaps sufficiently chivalrous that he is unaware that others do not share his nobility? I have observed that tendency among principled men -- notably, attributing to others virtues of their own. It is a mistake.

What kind of a society takes a she-was-asking-for-it attitude to violence perpetrated upon American women who wander America alone or after dark?

What kind of a society pretty much blows off the new trend of simply killing inconvenient wives and girlfriends?

What kind of a society brooks a Senate who, in 2008, still votes NO! NOT YET EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN!? Many of whom are single and who, being with no man and lower earnings, are simply left to fend for themselves?

What kind of a society makes media spectacles of mass school murders that feature weaponry (and dead guys as well as dead girls), while letting go unchecked a procession of female college co-eds who have been snatched off ostensibly safe sidewalks and brutally murdered? Can you imagine being THOSE parents? You think you've finally MADE IT, really DONE IT -- raised an intellectually inquisitive person who is sufficiently accomplished and promising that they have been accepted into a university -- you think you're GOLD, and then you get the ever-so-sorry-but-your-daughter-was-murdered call?





Alrighty then, now I am and I am NOT getting somewhere.

Shall the Bit Gimpy and the Long In The Tooth guess about the supplies and where to deliver them? In a movie, this is where I'd say "take me to your leader" but then I remember that the Resistance is leaderless.

Again with respect, this bit-gimpy-and-long-in-the-tooth Resistor suggests that lack of leadership is a premier problem.

By "pink rifle" I was going in this direction -

but without hanging extra crap on my GF's rifle. She liked pink and black as a combination, so it was a perfect fit - especially if Magpul ever got back to making pink magazines.

Actually, the assumption that I am taken is not correct - the GF died, and that was that.

I post stiff like this for deterrence value:

By indicating capabilities, the message is being sent that a cost can be imposed on abrogating freedom, and if one assumes I have similarly situated friends, the cost hopefully becomes too high, and even CS gas is not an effective inhibitor, and other chemicals can be detected, although their use would probably highly annoy my neighbors.

Finally, the gimp remark was GI humor (one of my friends who was with the Marines in Vietnam has a bit of trouble with a knee and some reminders of a few holes that got punched into him, but refuses to park in "gimp spaces").

One of my exercises has been to calculate the tonnage of supplies required to keep a family or a small size unit operational for one to two years. It is more than you can carry on your back and more than can be moved in a small truck. Thus I am of the school of thought that requires a non inconsequential base camp, that should be well fortified, and is as a secure place as is possible under the circumstances. The non combatants would be growing crops and maintaining the camp - packaging supplies for delivery out to the operational groups. Others are convinced they can operate without that degree of infrastructure.

I'd rather not find out which of the two is correct, but I prepare for the worst as best I can.

 

[cheapseats]

By "pink rifle" I was going in this direction -

but without hanging extra crap on my GF's rifle. She liked pink and black as a combination, so it was a perfect fit - especially if Magpul ever got back to making pink magazines.

Actually, the assumption that I am taken is not correct - the GF died, and that was that.

Just yesterday, someone suggested to me that my remarks to the Bearing Arms crowd may be striking the very people with whom I mean to ingratiate myself as mocking. Particularly at this minute, I hope you recognize it otherwise.

I am truly sorry to hear of your loss.

I post stiff like this for deterrence value:

By indicating capabilities, the message is being sent that a cost can be imposed on abrogating freedom, and if one assumes I have similarly situated friends, the cost hopefully becomes too high, and even CS gas is not an effective inhibitor, and other chemicals can be detected, although their use would probably highly annoy my neighbors.

Finally, the gimp remark was GI humor (one of my friends who was with the Marines in Vietnam has a bit of trouble with a knee and some reminders of a few holes that got punched into him, but refuses to park in "gimp spaces").

One of my exercises has been to calculate the tonnage of supplies required to keep a family or a small size unit operational for one to two years. It is more than you can carry on your back and more than can be moved in a small truck. Thus I am of the school of thought that requires a not inconsequential base camp, that should be well fortified, and is as a secure place as is possible under the circumstances. The non combatants would be growing crops and maintaining the camp - packaging supplies for delivery out to the operational groups. Others are convinced they can operate without that degree of infrastructure.

I'd rather not find out which of the two is correct, but I prepare for the worst as best I can.

Posterity will not regret more than one set of notes, I feel certain.

The good news about so much bad news is that establishing home bases that are as secure and self-sufficient as possible constitutes a brand of sanity that cannot be refuted. The phrase "under the circumstances" EXISTS to accommodate avant-garde solutions.

 

[Gideon]

My Precious!

My service grade CMP M1 Carbine made it after only 6 months. the ammo has not show up yet. Not as nice as the service grade Garands I got last year, but it will do.

 

[Toureg89]

its been a while since i last posted on the forum, and i have since added some more horses to the stable:

Springfield TRP Operator/Walther P90

Glock 29SF (my CC piece [when i turn 21, that is])

Extended Mag Release

Trijicon Night Sights

 

[Revolution_Ready]

Me (on the right) and my bud shootin in north carolina woods.

 

[cheapseats]

My bad.

 

[Merk]

Dissie

Dissie.

 

[Gideon]

Dissipators Rule!

Dissie.

One of these days we will meet in the State of Jefferson, rest our Dissipators against the same tree trunk, and raise a toast to Liberty.

 

[Call Me V]

Awesome rifles!

 

[DapperDan]

Mossberg 500...my first purchase

 

[Uriel999]

Mossberg 500...my first purchase

Very nice extended tube I see. How many does it hold?

 

[DapperDan]

It's the 8 shot model (20" barrel)

 

[Gideon]

Got slugs?

It's the 8 shot model (20" barrel)

A veritable slug-fest awaits!

 

[Minarchy4Sale]

Mossberg 500...my first purchase

I have the exact same model. It is most awesome. Hard to find slugs these days, but worth it. I have seen some shooters be effective out to 200m with them... Ill be happy if Im accurate to 100m.