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Posted: 4/17/2022 7:12:23 PM EDT
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I was infantry 10 years. They were issued the entire time, but we also got choice of grip pod and we could purchase our own. I got out in 2015, so no idea after that.
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Posted: 4/17/2022 7:14:01 PM EDT
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I've been issued them multiple times. Use has always been discretionary IME.
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Posted: 4/17/2022 8:06:29 PM EDT
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Most guys ran them because the Knights RAS kit came with it (and rail covers). They also authorized the Bipod VFG at some point between 2006 and 2008, and those became really popular, mostly because it gave guys an elegant way to set their rifles down without having to stack them. I would image there are way more approved options now a days, but back then the Knights VFG was pretty popular.
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Posted: 4/18/2022 7:37:23 AM EDT
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Literally walked past a giant box of knights VFGs during spinup for Iraq for us to take if we wanted. That was '09. I used a tango down myself though because it had a screw cap on the bottom where I could hide 3 or 4 smokes for firewatch.
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Posted: 4/18/2022 8:42:50 AM EDT
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You will find the best place for that grip is in the brown box the magazine comes in, along side the rail covers.
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Posted: 4/18/2022 10:13:11 AM EDT
[#6]
Thank you gentlemen.
My intent was to make it a “clone” of a USMC infantry rifle. However, never really having trained with them, I am happy to leave it off. Feels awkward to someone not used to it...and maybe a bit clunky occasionally getting myself “hung up” by the rifle in the old days doing silly infantry things. |
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Posted: 4/18/2022 1:46:09 PM EDT
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Please look at the A4 clone thread in this forum.
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Posted: 4/19/2022 7:40:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thank you gentlemen. My intent was to make it a “clone” of a USMC infantry rifle. However, never really having trained with them, I am happy to leave it off. Feels awkward to someone not used to it...and maybe a bit clunky occasionally getting myself “hung up” by the rifle in the old days doing silly infantry things. Clone? Add a PEQ14 to the top, strip the rail covers off, put a TA31RCO up top along with a KAS micro rear sight. That’s about it. Marines do not use MATEC rear sights. |
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Posted: 4/19/2022 7:47:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Clone? Add a PEQ14 to the top, strip the rail covers off, put a TA31RCO up top along with a KAS micro rear sight. That’s about it. Marines do not use MATEC rear sights. Which was a wise choice. |
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Posted: 4/19/2022 2:57:27 PM EDT
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My son is currently USMC infantry. He has not seen a back up sight since he’s been in. Various ACOGs yes, nothing else
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Posted: 4/21/2022 6:58:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Clone? Add a PEQ14 to the top, strip the rail covers off, put a TA31RCO up top along with a KAS micro rear sight. That’s about it. Marines do not use MATEC rear sights. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Thank you gentlemen. My intent was to make it a “clone” of a USMC infantry rifle. However, never really having trained with them, I am happy to leave it off. Feels awkward to someone not used to it...and maybe a bit clunky occasionally getting myself “hung up” by the rifle in the old days doing silly infantry things. Clone? Add a PEQ14 to the top, strip the rail covers off, put a TA31RCO up top along with a KAS micro rear sight. That’s about it. Marines do not use MATEC rear sights. Starting in 07 all the guns came from the depot with Matecs, the irony was the Marines in the divisions who got MWSs first, did not get the guns they went to wing. Around 10, they stopped coming with BUIS completely and the KACs were sent to units who lost most of them |
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Posted: 5/11/2022 11:35:21 PM EDT
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Kac vfg optional
Buis were taken in the night by Jody but armory never seemed to care |
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