whitewolf001

I guess the Swedish(AK5), Austrian's(AUG), German's(G36), Chinese(QBZ-95), and Belgian's(FAL, SCAR) have been doing it wrong all this time...

Pretty much every first world government with an excellent infantry weapon system would disagree, except our archaic butts. :p

The four of them cleared the rest of the store with nothing to be found, they then began to salvage everything they could. Anything not nailed down was being removed and put into the back of the Deuce. Jack was collecting all the medical supplies while Jeb was getting food. Julie was grabbing non-essential stuff such as toiletries, laundry soaps, etc. Sarah was standing by the front door keeping watch in case someone, or something, came from around this side while Tay was keeping watch over the back. Darkness had settled in for the evening and it was a moonless night, making it difficult to see anything passed ten feet though some night-vision found with the military gear surely helped. Sarah had already watched one shamble across the road searching for its next victim.   Jack was taking a short break to enjoy a cigarette out by the back door, he slowly climbed into the back of the truck and made his way forward to cab. Tay was monitoring his field of vision with a set of his own NVG's. Jack smoked his 'cancer stick', as Jeb called them, and sat in the back of the truck with his back to the cab, "So what's our next move Tay? Think we can make it by tomorrow?" Tay without looking at him and continuing his scan, "Maybe, who knows? We may have to detour for any number of reasons one of which may be to not lure those things to the B.O.L. especially if they gather like that one that the A10's took out." Jack sat there thinking about how the jets swarmed in, "You think maybe that they were saving us or just on a seek and destroy mission?" Tay lowered his NVG, turned to the rear to look at Jack out of the corner of his eye, "Hard to tell brother, who knows. Gimme one of those." Jack opened the box and put it through the cab opening. Tay retrieved one and before he could ask for a light, Jack hit Tay on the side of the head with a small Bic he had found in the store. "Lot of stuff was gone already but one thing that wasn't were the lighters, tons of those little dudes."   Tay put his NVG back on and immediately patted Jack on the shoulder, "Danger close, two tango's from twelve o'clock in bound." Jack then looked through trying to use his natural night vision but the night was so pitch it was like staring into a black hole, no light to be had. He then caught some of the movement that Tay was watching, it was far too fast for it to be the things they had seen. It was a person and they were darting from cover to cover. Jack wanted to get the drop on them but make sure that they didn't wake the neighborhood. Knowing how dark it was, if it was hard for Jack to see them, they probably had no idea they were there. Jack made his was quietly out from the back of the Deuce and moved to the front right side of the truck then went prone with his weapon on the ground while Tay slowly opened the front window of the Deuce just enough to get the muzzle of his weapon under the glass using his support hand to hold the NVG's he had been using. Jack waited for Tay to relay some kind of signal as Jack could only make out the occasional movement. Tay then stomped his foot twice heavily into the floor of the Deuce giving a nice verbal 'thump'.   Jack and Tay then both flipped their weapon lights on shining the sneaky duo. At this distance they could give commands loudly enough to assert authority but quietly enough as to not let everyone know where they were at. "DON'T MOVE!!!" Tay called out. It was a pair of girls, one maybe all of sixteen, the other twelve. The duo looked tired and ragged, plus now frightened, and probably thought they could nab something from the abandoned convenience store, or that's what it looked like to Jack anyways. Jack got up from the ground and leaned into the passenger side window of the Deuce, "They're kids man." Tay not lowering his weapon, "That means jack @#$% to me. Search em man." Jack responded, "Listen, Tay, lemme go grab Julie or Sarah and have them search these girls, at least give them that man." It was obvious that Tay didn't like this decision, "Fine but double time it, we're sitting ducks out here with this torch on."   End of Chapter 4

:stunned:  :squint:  :dropjaw:

From all the awesome? 

It was. ;)   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_63

Jack took point as Jeb stood in the entryway waiting to take up the rear. Julie followed Jack with Sarah behind her. Jeb finally followed in last behind Sarah, slowly closing the automatic sliding door, then locking it from the inside. The layout would take them a few minutes to clear due to the many rows of aisles. Moving slowly over to the checkout counter, Jack kept his weapon at the low ready and was prepared to engage any hostile should they appear; he used his supporting to activate his weapon mounted light, Jeb and Sarah followed to do the same. Julie followed very closely behind Jack while Sarah moved immediately to their right with Jeb following behind her. The latter two moved to secure the restrooms first, Jeb entered first to clear the restrooms while Sarah stood out front of them to make sure nothing followed him inside.   He checked the lady's room with nothing to be found except an unkempt restroom; he then moved to the men's room, when the door opened a face lunged out at him but was stopped by it's own human form as its shoulders locked it between the door and the frame. Jeb had kept his hand on the door handle on both bathroom doors in case anything came through. Jeb then leveled his PDW using his free hand and pressed the suppressed short barreled rifle up against the creatures forehead, "Say goodnight Sally." squeezing the spongy like trigger of the bullpup weapon. The head of his would be attacker dipped as he fired, with it's jaws headed for hand. He then pulled tighter on the door to slow the creatures decent and used the suppressor to catch the creatures mouth in the top forcing the metal cylinder into it's jowls, he pulled the trigger twice and then once more to satisfy his own aggression.   Jeb then swung the door on the water closet wide open, satisfied that it was clear, he went into the room and to appease the rebel in him, he then urinated in the sink. After completing this, he used a paper towel in the bathroom to wipe the decayed flesh off his weapon. He looked down onto the sink bowl as something off color from the white bowl caught his eye. Laying there was a Smith & Wesson 637 to which Jeb picked it up, opened the cylinder and lowered the revolver low enough to catch some of the light thrown from his primary weapon, the cylinder showed that three rounds had been expended while 2 were still fresh and ready to go.   Jack slowly peered over the top of the checkout counter, moving with slow precise action as to not alert anything that may be on the other side. Upon seeing nothing, Jack moved along with Julie skirting the counter and with every aisle they passed on their right they would muzzle it making sure to clear it but still moving slow enough that he could maintain awareness of what was in front of him as he couldn't trust Julie to properly sweep the aisles as she hadn't trained for it. He then stopped and threw his fist into the air. Julie assumed that this meant stop and don't move as that's exactly what Jack had done. He then spun around the side of the counter to peer down it to confirm his first initial inspection which now, he was glad he checked a second time as there was a dead body behind the counter. The body had three bullet wounds in the chest and did not move upon Jack clearing the corner, "This guy must've been killed in a robbery just as it all went down." He then turned around to clear the rest of the store with Julie closely behind him.

A few hours later...   The Deuce cruised along churning it's Continental Motors Company six cylinder diesel along the small country highway. The massive truck began to slow and the squeal of its brakes actuating brought it to a full stop. Jeb peered his head through the folded window, "What's up, why're we stopping?" He looked through the front window of the place they were pulled in front of and saw yellow siding, "Is this a Dollar General??" he asked. Tay responded with a smile, "Yep, figured we'll grab some grub." Jeb leaned back out of the window and looked to Julie and Jack, "Looks like we're making a pit stop." Julie then exclaimed, "Oh thank god, I've had to go to the bathroom for FOREVER." Jack looked to them, "Check your gear and make sure it's fastened good and tight. We are gonna have to clear this place before we do anything."   Sarah leaned in through the opened rear window, "Tay says for you guys bail out and wait for us to come around, he's gonna pull the truck around and park it nearly against the back door in case we gotta bail." The three in the bed jumped out the back and moved to the front entrance. Jeb peered inside to get a look, all the lights were out as there was no longer any power. Darkness shrouded most of the store except for a few feet in front of the entrance as it was moving from day to night. Jeb used his flashlight to peer inside but there was no movement. He turned to Jack, "I got nothin man." Jack nodded in response. The sound of the Deuce cutting off let them know that Tay positioned the truck. Sarah came around the side quietly and before rounding the corner, she stopped calling out quietly, "Romeo." Jack responded with a hushed, "Juliet." The group had talked about this longbefore anything happened and decided to use this system so as to prevent any kind of friendly fire, with Jack at the rear of the cluster, he spun around to face Julie as Sarah rounded the corner and took up rear point.   The group had trained for moving in groups under Tay's instruction and he was especially hard on her as to make sure she kept up her own weight in the team. Jeb gave Julie a light and said, "Hold this while I crack open this mother..." Right when he said that a face impacted the door, fingers clawing and trying as hard as they may to get through the transparent door. He jumped back and yelled, "Holy @#$%!" He leveled his suppressed PDW at the door, aimed for the head, and let loose a twenty-two caliber projectile. The bullet passed through the glass and hit right on the bridge of the nose, thus piercing the skull. The body dropped to the ground making a thud that could be heard from the outside. Julie was a little shocked but not enough to cause panic, she held her composure as she held the light for Jeb. He removed a small tool kit from his rig that contained a lock pick kit. Julie now curious, "Why not just break the glass?" she asked in a whisper. Jeb without turning to look at her, focused on his task, "Because we want to be able to lock this behind us and create a barrier." Julie was a little impressed by their forethought on the matter, "You've really thought this out haven't you?" He didn't respond to her but instead twisted the lock carefully, "There we go." He put away his small tools and grabbed the trim of the door and pulled it wide open. Jack moved in front of Julie, "Stay behind me."

I would like to apologize to everyone, I've been trying to fix all these symbols that popped in when the web page got flipped around.

:squint:  Seriously?   edit: Okay, just read the rest of the thread. Was a comic, NOW that makes sense. Still though, probably should have just stuck with a comic... That sounds HORRIBLY cheesy.

*Begins to foam at the mouth*  :rant:  :wall:  :mad:  :slapfight:

      That's unfortunately what I thought as well... If that's the case, I think I'm SOL. Guess I've got some fancy paper weights... Ugh.  :surrender:

They're .300 WM and stamped Remington but outside that I don't know what pattern they'll fit. I got it off of my mil-surplus guy and from all the info I've gathered it doesn't look like a AICS pattern. Any clues would be much appreciated. Sent from the future using a flux capacitor.

Honestly, there aren't a whole lot of AR's out there that I WOULDN'T buy, even being in the "entry level" category; Del Ton, CORE 15, Spike's Tactical, Ruger, S&W, etc..(If you can catch them at the right time, Buds sells blemmed Adams Arms rifles usually under $800 with a rail system or in the $600 territory with base furniture which is a STEAL) I could go on and on but a couple I would steer clear of are Model 1 sales(if you plan on piecing one together) and Diamondback. Even on Diamondback's higher grade model they cheaped out with ATI furniture, which is supposed to be a retail of $1k, which is RIDICULOUS. At $1k retail it had either be a DARNED good rifle or come with some goodies, the Diamondback lacked both. Also, put my hands on their "entry level" and the things(there were two and BOTH had the exact same issues but were not consecutive serial's NOR even remotely close to each other) finishes were extremely poor, neither had ejection cover's installed(they were made for them, just no doors!), AND they had the protrusions for the forward assist but were not even machined for it. It's like someone got the upper and said, "............ Meh, @#$% it."

The SR556VT uses a proprietary match trigger but is the only one that does use anything but USGI.

Guess I'm glad I got my 1400 rounds for my upcoming class when I did. :(

That is a sharp looking knife.  :P

Yeah, I had one from KFC a long time ago that had a blood clot. NOT fun...

ECACTLY why I bought this one amigo. Sent from the future using a flux capacitor.

It's supposed take one very well from all the reviews I've seen on it. As for holding said edge, dunno. I will soon enough though. :)

It's a Taiwan made OTF but was $42 shipped. I am thoroughly impressed by it and for the price if it breaks I definitely won't be sad but the thing is from everything I've read about these they're supposed to be outstanding bang for buck. Sent from the future using a flux capacitor.

I priced a .300WinMag 24" threaded stainless heavy barrel contour installed and back to my door from Douglas for $595. Douglas is on par with Krieger and both make competition barrels AND have military contracts for EBR and SPR weapons. Once I start that project it's going to snowball as I become obsessed with finishing it. Timney makes one of the best 700 triggers around( http://www.timneytriggers.com/shop/Calvin-Elite-Remington-Model-700-P51.aspx ). There is a plethora of stocks to choose from by McMillan, Accuracy Int'l, Bell and Carlson, Knoxx, Hogue, etc.. The one I'm interested in is one Dolomite turned me on to, they're priced right($400ish if memory serves) and they're not gaudy in the least, very minimalist which is what I really like. If he pops in here he might be able to provide a link. It accepts AR stocks and pistol grips so you can customize it to your content. Optics? Hmmm, an interesting question but my favorite for the money are the Vortex Viper PST( http://www.amazon.com/Vortex-Viper-6-24x50-Rifle-PST-624S1-M/dp/B003AQIX5A ), they're easily competition for their more expensive counterparts from Leupold. I expect I'll have somewhere in the ball park of $2800-3400 by the time I'm done with it, but I also plan to have the action Blueprinted and the weapon Cerakoted.

.300WinMag is banned now, buy all you can!!!..... From me.

Are those knives or cleavers? :p