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Posted: 8/2/2013 4:07:06 PM EDT
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OK, now that I have your attention...
There was a pic (three actually) of a really cute IDF chick smiling & holding her M16; she was dressed in street clothes and standing in a crowd... I made some notes/questions/criticisms about her rifle/carbine on my PC...Now I can't find the thread/pic!!! 
Anybody remember the pic??? It was posted about 27 July...IIRC... If someone can link the pic, I'll voice my concerns about her carbine... (A mind is a terrible thing to waste) 
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Are you talking about this one?<a href="http://s97.photobucket.com/user/gordog_2006/media/IDchic2_zps3e697fa0.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l216/gordog_2006/IDchic2_zps3e697fa0.jpg</a> Thank You, gordog!!! That is exactly the one!!! 
OK, here are my concerns...If this has already been hashed over, my apologies, I don't usually check the chick pics...Old age, you know... 
- Isn't the spare magazine blocking the ejection port??? Even if it's spaced out, won't the ejected cartridges jam the bolt/port cover??? - I see the trigger pin...Where's the hammer pin??? - The rear takedown pin seems really small...If it is a takedown pin...Really shiny too... - I don't see any evidence of a sear pin... Thank you all for your help!!! 
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This is probably the mag carrier being used.
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So the consensus is that the crappy photo hides/blurs the sear pin, hammer pin, and the takedown pin flange...
And the port blockage is because of a block in the magwell which acts as a magazine carrier...Maybe also as a dust cover for the magwell.. OK...Sounds reasonable... Carrying an unloaded lethal weapon has always been frowned upon in my two branches of US military service, except in boot camp...(I've had my ass chewed out by a gunnery sergeant for having a magazine in my .45 but no round chambered - 'You can't defend it if it's not loaded')...But of course Israel is quite different... I was kind of thinking that maybe the Israelis had some kind of different FCG than the US M16A1...Maybe some kind of setup like the 3-shot burst or the full-auto DOE...Something different...With different internals... I have enough spare parts to put together an A1 carbine like this chick is holding...Just looking for something different...
Thanks to all for your help!!!
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Postino, We only loaded a round in the chamber when we left the F.O.B. (Iraq 2005) Marines and Navy. We couldn't be trusted I guess? My chewing out took place at Camp Sukaran Okinawa 1971, picking up ammunition for our [9MT Bn, 3dMarDiv] yearly qualification...The Gunnery Sergeant at the Marine section of the ammo depot told me to chamber a round...Reason quoted above... 
I also had to use a 5 ton truck (we only had M151 & 5 ton M62's) because regs said 3/4 ton or over...And I had to have an armed guard with me because I couldn't be a guard if I was driving...And the driver couldn't sign for the ammo...So we had to swap duties back & forth...I guarded while he drove; he guarded while I signed & loaded... It was Marine horseshit at its finest...
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