601 HGs and PGs on GB,,NOT my auction.

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 601 HGs and PGs on GB,,NOT my auction.

Posted: 7/26/2009 2:38:59 PM EDT

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=135093564

Posted: 7/26/2009 8:43:58 PM EDT

[#1]

Where was this guy when I was looking for my right side?!

Posted: 7/26/2009 8:49:33 PM EDT

[#2]

Isn't someone here looking for a right hand handguard?

Posted: 7/26/2009 10:02:08 PM EDT

[#3]

I think ali059 is lookin for left.

Posted: 7/26/2009 10:02:58 PM EDT

[#4]

Looking for the left side please.

Posted: 7/27/2009 5:35:29 AM EDT

[#5]

Thanks guys always remembering me!

Yep that would be a left!

Posted: 7/27/2009 5:42:50 AM EDT

[#6]

Left and right for me...

Posted: 7/27/2009 12:30:15 PM EDT

[#7]

This s**t just pisses me off. Look at my sigline below...

Posted: 7/27/2009 12:56:59 PM EDT

[#8]

Why are there more right then left handguards?? Are the left more prone to breakage?

Posted: 7/27/2009 1:28:05 PM EDT

[#9]

Sounds like the competition for right original handguards is about to go up.

Posted: 7/27/2009 1:29:34 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Why are there more right then left handguards?? Are the left more prone to breakage?

I've heard a lot of speculation about why.
Best I heard was when a righty drops to the ground the left side takes the beating.
When you crawl on your belly it takes even more beating.

Who knows the real reason why.

Posted: 7/27/2009 1:35:50 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Sounds like the competition for right original handguards is about to go up.

Why the right? Everyone posting here is looking for left sides, besides the ones needing both sides.

ETA: Anybody ever seen a case of left side HGs (black not green ones

) for sale?

ETA again: The brown one in the auction looks kinda weird, like it maggots crawling around on it.

Posted: 7/27/2009 1:47:05 PM EDT

[#12]

Akkk. I meant left.

If I could just find a case of lefts I could clean up around here.

I'd actually sell them for what I paid...but only to the regulars around here.

Posted: 7/27/2009 1:49:05 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Why are there more right then left handguards?? Are the left more prone to breakage?

I don't know for sure, but I have an idea. In the Air Force, when we shoot, we frequently have to lay the rifles down on their left side on the concrete (to show the bolt is open with the chamber empty). I can see the rough concrete wearing on the protruding rear area of the left handguard.

Just a guess ???

John Thomas

Posted: 7/27/2009 2:14:50 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

ETA again: The brown one in the auction looks kinda weird, like it maggots crawling around on it.

If you want to bid those up and get them, I'll give you 5 bucks for the brown maggoty one.

Posted: 7/27/2009 3:06:28 PM EDT

[#15]

Hmmm...I lay my rifles down on their left side, but I don't frickin' slam 'em down. Didn't even do that when I was 19 and on active duty...'course, there weren't no wars on back then either...

Posted: 7/27/2009 5:22:13 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Hmmm...I lay my rifles down on their left side, but I don't frickin' slam 'em down. Didn't even do that when I was 19 and on active duty...'course, there weren't no wars on back then either...

I guess I should have been more clear... I didn't mean we slam them down and bust the handguard. I meant the abrasive nature of the concrete wears on them over a period of time.

I apologize for any confusion.

John Thomas

Posted: 7/27/2009 6:10:25 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Hmmm...I lay my rifles down on their left side, but I don't frickin' slam 'em down. Didn't even do that when I was 19 and on active duty...'course, there weren't no wars on back then either...

I guess I should have been more clear... I didn't mean we slam them down and bust the handguard. I meant the abrasive nature of the concrete wears on them over a period of time.

I apologize for any confusion.

John Thomas

John, I didn't mean to imply you did. My comment was tongue-in-cheek, or meant to be.

Lionel

Posted: 7/27/2009 7:16:58 PM EDT

[#18]

John, I didn't mean to imply you did. My comment was tongue-in-cheek, or meant to be.

Lionel

No problem... no offense taken.

John Thomas

Posted: 8/2/2009 6:04:19 AM EDT

[#19]

Alright...who am I fighting with over this set???

Posted: 8/2/2009 6:32:23 AM EDT

[#20]

...looks you're competing with like a***m.

Posted: 8/2/2009 7:33:07 AM EDT

[#21]

I'm glad someone outbid me, since I'm between jobs right now... I'm T***2

Hello, my name is VAAR, and I'm an auctionholic...

Posted: 8/2/2009 7:45:10 AM EDT

[#22]

Welcome Vaar,the 1st step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

Posted: 8/2/2009 9:46:16 AM EDT

[#23]

OOOOFFFF.....he went nuclear on me FTW!

Posted: 8/2/2009 9:59:33 AM EDT

[#24]

Whad we miss Stuka???

Posted: 8/2/2009 10:11:06 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
OOOOFFFF.....he went nuclear on me FTW!

HOLY COW, $581.84 with 8 minutes to go!!!

'

ETA:Get back in their & fight, you still have 3 minutes & 43 seconds left!

ETA2: j/k I would not bid that high either.

Posted: 8/2/2009 10:59:43 AM EDT

[#26]

Wow, that's an awful lot for a non-matched pair.
Hopefully the winner has 2 lefts and can make a couple of pair.
That's the only reason why I would have spent that much.
TThat's getting pretty close to what I paid for my matched pair.
The pistol grips would be nice bonuses.

Posted: 8/2/2009 12:04:25 PM EDT

[#27]

Fuck all of you! I've been looking for a left side forever

Just kidding, but seriously I'm still looking for a left side..been looking for one since I built my 601 like 2 years ago.

Posted: 8/2/2009 12:05:53 PM EDT

[#28]

Holy S––t Batman! Almost 600 bucks for five pieces of plastic?? I'm glad I acquired this stuff 10 years ago

Posted: 8/2/2009 12:25:23 PM EDT

[#29]

Holy Shit. $581.84. Guess I didn't have to worry about geting outbid with my $177 bid...

Posted: 8/2/2009 12:32:07 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Holy Shit. $581.84. Guess I didn't have to worry about geting outbid with my $177 bid...

Looks like I didnt need to bother bidding either.....
Ron

Posted: 8/2/2009 3:01:27 PM EDT

[#31]

Not at that price.

Posted: 8/2/2009 6:13:40 PM EDT

[#32]

Remember that the last matching pair went for $1056 on GB.

Posted: 8/2/2009 6:17:43 PM EDT

[#33]

Actually I bought my pair off of GB after the $1025 pair.
I only paid $755.
I was bidding against people who had bid in the $1025 auction.
I kinda figured what their highest bid was and was hoping to get them for under $850.(which was what my maximum bid was going to be)

I wouldn't have paid more than $200 for a mismatched pair.

Posted: 8/3/2009 8:18:05 AM EDT

[#34]

To put this in perspective, I bought a matching pair off the "Chestnut Ridge" website probably in 2002 listed under "odds and ends" for $85. Chestnut Ridge sells stains for stocks for M1s and M14s.

Posted: 8/3/2009 9:17:12 AM EDT

[#35]

...and I remember taking them off guns brand new and throwing them in big piles to be disposed of. We didn't care about those cuz we were all trying to build our M4geries.

Posted: 8/3/2009 3:17:45 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
...and I remember taking them off guns brand new and throwing them in big piles to be disposed of. We didn't care about those cuz we were all trying to build our M4geries.

You're a baaad man...

Posted: 8/3/2009 3:25:26 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

Quoted:
...and I remember taking them off guns brand new and throwing them in big piles to be disposed of. We didn't care about those cuz we were all trying to build our M4geries.

You're a baaad man... http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/traurig/sad-smiley-020.gif

That's just mean, you made Mark cry!

Now go apologize to him, by sending him a set of those HGs you did not throw away.

Just the thought of that makes me sick.

Posted: 8/3/2009 3:37:41 PM EDT

[#38]

Here's one that will make all gun collectors cry.Guy I knew years ago went to a US govt surplus auction with the intentions of bidding to win SEVERAL thousand M1 carbine stocks,including many M1A1 para stocks... With the auction IN PROGRESS bidders saw soldiers pour gas on a pile of wood and light it up..Yep,ALL those stocks were suddenly deemed "weapon related" and not available for sale..Gods honest truth,,and he had pictures of the blaze...