Yup, I'm from the '80s. The 90's had more influence on me but I remember the 80s. Not sure what draws me to the earlier clones. I like classic cars and play In a rock band, maybe it's just nostalgia. I'm one of the few, if not only, that doesn't want to see Geissele end up on cqbr's. Even if outdated, I love the quad rail! Although if it does, the the dd ris ii would be the classic version, so either way I guess. I just don't think I'd own one of newer ones if they come out. Nothin against Geissele. I had a mk4 and loved it, just not on a mk18 for me.

Attaching a bunch of flashlights is all well and good... but the manliest men operate operationally by candle light :D.

Lol. I think some of my lights are from when they used to measure in candle power.

My wife just told me to buy an NT4......I think I am gonna fo

Nice

FYI for anyone still looking for a SF 556-RC, Red's Trading Post in Twin Falls, ID has one. They're asking $1250 and it's the same one I've been seeing on their display case since Feb '14. I tried to get them to budge on price but they weren't having it.

I was alive for 9 months of the 80s. How you like me now!

Should have nabbed one of those RC's on sale from AU.

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You and me both. At least I grabbed a 212 for the 416s.

Rub it in why don't ya.

Well at this going price rate for the RC's might as well nab a NT4. KAC masterrace anyways.

FYI a large portion of those guns are airsoft.

My humble Mk18 Mod 0 submission. Another long project finished. Got my stamp two weeks ago and my cut down Colt M4 barrel back from ADCO Friday. Brownells A1 lower. Colt M4 upper with Colt BCG and PRI CH. NT4 is next. Still debating the optic. I have a Wilcox mount. Need a Comp M2. Something in me wants a TA01NSN for this shorty.

Cheers!

Looks awesome to me!
M2 or irons IMHO. Nothing else looks right on the Mod 0.

Hmmm, I only picked up and tinkered with about half of them, but they all seemed fully legit and authentic to me. Even some of those rifles show up in pics and videos on their IG feed and there's no indication that they aren't real. Nothing about airsoft in the comments of any of those pics either.

Cqbr upper on the way... stamps en route soon...

I was disappointed too when I first found out. The one I remember off the top of my head was the MK16 and one of the 203s. The M110K1 is absolutely real though.

Really? Huh.

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Better?

Red pilled out of my mind, just fyi.

Even as someone who has an astigmatism in both eyes (apparently anyway, as all red dots and holos show up as blurry stars), I find it incredible someone going to war would prefer iron sights over a red dot. I'm sure there are legit reasons, I just personally don't get it.

I mean, aside from the obvious holster problems, that would be tight as fuck if you had it on the other side.

And what do you think this is?

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Had thought the same thing. The offset doesn't work for being on that side though.

Haha, true. It's a battery powered candle ;p.

Then again, I remember when the 65 lumen 6P came out, and at the time it seemed like the white hot blaze of 10,000 suns.

Stfu! Do it now! Before a huge list of contingencies pops up!

Young whipper-snapper! Cherish the rest of your twenties!

I can't. There's only 11 months of it left and I can't do shit.

Lookin nice! ^^^

Anyone got some pics of the Mod 1 with a variable scope?

Found some old Troy rail covers I forgot about and decided to do "arts and crafts".  Tossed them on one of the CQBR's.  Also, poop brown stock FTW!

Stupid file size limit ruining my pics. Sigh. Carolina Laser Works label came in so I had to post obviously.

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I will

What pistol brace is that?

All I got......

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Nice! #T1MasterRace

If you're saying that for an argument, I'm not going to argue with you.  RDS are superior.  You win.

If you want a perspective of someone who has seen some combat and seems to know what he's talking about, listen to Paul Howe about it:

http://www.combatshootingandtactics.com/published/training_bullets/IronsandOptics2016-csat_bg.pdf

If you want my opinion, irons are more intuitive and simple to me, as compared to an RDS.  I sometimes struggle with seeing the dot double.  I have to sometimes squint my left eye almost to a close to clear that up.  (Which takes away the whole you can open both your eyes with an RDS upside)  I don't like the extra housing in my sight picture.  And for me, if it's a home defense gun, the ghostring with a light is just as fast as an RDS.  Without the housing of an RDS in the way.  And if you know what you're doing, irons can be just as accurate as an RDS.    Now, as you say, my eyeballs aint what they used to be either and a carbine sight radius is blurry as heck for me.  Although I can still shoot just fine at 0-50 yards with them.  It starts to get wonky once I shoot at 100 with blurry irons.  Using a 6 oclock hold has aided in that.  But having said that, shooting a scope at 100 yards is easier.  I don't call shooting an RDS at 100 any easier.   Just my opinion.

Everything has it's upsides.  I think the best solution is a LPV 1-4, 1-6, whatever, if only they didn't weigh as much as they do.

The best solution for me is a rifle sight radius, if I'm planning on shooting past 60-70 yards or so.

But with the ghostring, I can shoot as fast as any other set up at close distance.  As fast as I can mount the gun and bring the irons to my face.

The place where RDS shine I think is when you get into funky positions and possibly moving a lot. And maybe lower light if you don't want to use a light.  Although I would think you're going to ID your target with a light redgardless.

Like I say, everything has it's upsides and I have no doubt an RDS is a better tool for going to war for most people.  But of those two pics I posted, it's called, they know what they're f'ing doing.    On top of that, if they're using NV lasers, do they really even need an optic for dark?  I don't know a lot about NV but I don't see why you'd have a laser AND a NV RDS....    Maybe someone could set me straight on that.

For me, shooting the irons is fun.  It works, it makes the gun light

Still doing things I started at 18, decades later.  


Home this time to see my first grandchild born (#4)!.  Course wasn't home for my two boys either

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If only I was smart enough to pull out, I would probably be at the range right now.

Wow, form 1s approved and cqbr upper in the mail, c'mon cans....

Curious why they/he dont use a different mount to get that scope fwd.....like a LT104 or something.

Maybe because they/he didn't/don't have issues with eye relief?

Do they have super long eye relief or something? Usually you'd want a scope as rearward as possible. At least with the ACOG and Elcan

Probably riding the stock with his cheek, the nf has quite a bit more eye relief than an elcan

How long we talkin? Like 3" or like 13"?

SB SOB Brace, best one I’ve used thus far.

Its the next best looking one I've seen besides the shockwave and the PDW braces. I kind of want one to replace my shockwave

Looks pretty damn good

I need to order one of those...  I want a few for my MK12's also but I don't think they ever actually used them on MK12's so I guess I will just order two for the MK18's.

There’s a joke in there somewhere....

Gotta have trigger discipline. 20 yrs of fun , 1 scare , 0 kids!

The quintessential "mini-recce".  

@Combat_Diver    Congrats on Grandchild #4!!!!!!!!