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Posted: 7/6/2008 6:39:01 AM EDT
Hopefully this isn't a dupe; I know there's a small thread in the LaRue forum, but I figured that this deserved a wider audience...
I'm currently reading "The Last Patriot" by Brad Thor, and it mentions one of our own by name. It's a really good book so far, and I thought it was hilarious when I read this passage:
Pretty awesome, I think. And maybe Brad Thor has read the Ammo Oracle, because he later talks about loading his Magpul magazines with Mk262 ammo. Way to go, LaRue! I'm going to have to drive up to Leander one of these days to see your fine operation in person. |
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Very cool,...........heading to bookstore after lunch.
ETA: Just got back...........book in hand, thx.Zhukov. |
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Dupity, dupity, dupe. Though under a different title and in a different section of the website.
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=2&f=219&t=162043 |
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part in red |
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Looks like a Brad Thor book. I've read two of his books. They are damn good. He rivals or may even exceed Tom Clancy in talent.
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Shoot first and ask questions later. I know I've seen another one somewhere. Its all good. I bow out gracefully after being slapped back into place. Took me a minute to realize that was the small thread in question. |
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I dunno about that; this book is kind of short, but it does read very well. I'll have to check out his other stuff from the library or in paperback. |
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LOL..... WOW, 3" groups at 600 yards witha short barreled M4 stealth this guy must be some sort of secret Squirrel Ninja SEAL Recon Sniper.... (I know its fiction, but WOW that is far fetched) |
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If Im not mistaken I remember Larue himself posting some quite small groups shot with his uppers, maybe not that small but I remember being impressed. |
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No more far fetched than the shooting in Unintended Consequences. And since this is Texas.......well you know... |
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My bad - it's a typo. |
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Glad I checked before busting out the "all the gear, no idear" line. Easy to understand when transcribing for an internet post. Pretty much unforgivable in a book where guns and technical aspects of guns are involved. |
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Now I wasnt busting chops.. i mean 3" groups at 600 yards would be possible, with the right tools in he hands of highly trained highly motivated individuals. Even a 14.5" or an 11.5" barrell, BUT it would be few and far between. I just noted the writing style seems a little more glitz and glam than accurate. But, when in rome..... I am gonna get the book too, just because I own some LaRue stuff, and I am a GunKnurd..... |
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That excerpt really does sound like what you'd get if you asked a gunrag writer to pen a novel.
Lots of back-thumping and shopping lists of go-fast gear. Saw pretty much the same thing in Unintended Consequences... |
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ok... I've looked my mount over and over and didn't see anything about living or dieing.
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Probably only on weapons would be my guess |
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It's on the rail systems. I don't recall ever seeing it on any of the mounts, though. |
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UGH I passed this book up when I first saw it at Borders.
Supposedly it's got ideas in it that Glenn Beck is convinced will get Thor killed. |
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It's written on the threads of the battery storage caps. J/k its on their rails guys, maybe some of you should use it as an excuse to pick up a few? They make great mantelpieces all by themselves too, if you don't happen to have an AR |
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the previous thor novels are very troy heavy. I've got the new one coming my way....
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Absolutely. The story is fiction, but the underlying idea is real. He talks about all the bad thing this "FAIR" organization is up to, and it meshes 100% with the real-life CAIR, as well as spelling out their subversive goals. Not to mention the background to the Barbary wars, and the real possibility of Mohammed's lost revelation. It has all the ingredients to make fundy Islamists rage. |
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I've heard of Thor before, but I've never read any of his books. I just ordered his first book from Amazon. Sounds a lot like Vince Flynn, his books are always fun to read.
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hi books are amazing. timely. and packed with interesting details that actually mean something - like why harvath carried a troy or a larue or an HK - unlike a certain whispering TV host who just spews nonsense.
also thor's books would make WIIIIICKED movies. but ollywood would PC them into harvath fighting new mexico minutemen bent on raising the price of gas while turning ANWR into a detainee camp for a new wave of renditions against peace loving arabs. |
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Thor was a story consultant on the season of "24" I enjoyed most - the one with "Marwan" (I forget which season # it was)... IIRC he's also a member of a thinktank or at least has had his brain picked by the .gov regarding terrorism. |
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Nice
Ive got a Borders gift card kicking around ..........looks like Ive got another to add to my list |
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Hey Texas,
Thor is in Texas starting tomorrow on a 4-city book-signing tour. "The Last Patriot" just hit the shelves #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Here's the schedule if you think you might have time to go meet and get your book signed ... Grapevine Monday, the 21st, 7PM Books-A-Million Grapevine Mills Mall Houston Tuesday, the 22nd, 6:30PM Murder By The Book 2342 Bissonnet San Antonio Wednesday, teh 23rd, 7PM Barnes & Noble 12635 I-10 West Round Rock Thursday, July the 24th, 7PM Hastings Entertainment 2200 S. I-35 Enjoy, ML |
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Hey Mark, you need a volunteer to prove that a 3" group can be had out of a well made short upper. Hell, 1/2 MOA is not that far fetched at 600yds.
Solidly mounted optics, good ammo and a calm morning along with no coffee for breakfast, any decent Rifleman should be able to duplicate that feat. Ron |
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Hey Mark - are you going to be there for the signing? I really would like to come up to see your place one of these days and meet the famous Mark LaRue, being that I'm in Pflugerville... |
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75 pages into the book now... He writes a taut thriller!
He needs to be an Arfcommer |
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Better not, don't want to steal even a small bit of the man's thunder. I can barely write a paragraph of stuff, and even then I gotta edit. And my spellin's atroshous. |
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