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MJ1
09-29-2010, 08:59 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/montereyjack/b68a2530.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/montereyjack/00f91db0.jpg
Penguin
09-29-2010, 09:30 PM
Good looking rifle. If I may ask, why the muzzle break instead of a flash supressor?
gewehr44
09-30-2010, 02:00 AM
I note he lists his location as California, so it's probably safer to have a brake than a flash suppressor.
Penguin
09-30-2010, 06:43 AM
That would make sense, I should have noticed that.
AKTexas
09-30-2010, 07:09 AM
Nice rifle,are the mags CA compliant or preban?
Bluedog
09-30-2010, 07:28 AM
That was my dad's gun too. He was in Vietnam starting July of 67, First Marine Division. He never set foot in a Jungle. He fought in rice paddy country around Da Nang.

I have a USGI/ Norinco M14 myself.
MJ1
09-30-2010, 09:35 AM
Central Highlands 8/67 to 8/68 Kontum and Dak To area and several other nasty places or hospitals.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/montereyjack/c8331111.jpg

I received the rifles and magazines new in '81 and '83.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/montereyjack/b4251fd8.jpg

...Pura Vida...
BlueFletch
02-13-2011, 03:56 PM
I went through PI in '66 & the M14 was our weapon.
Was even issued one in RVN, had a plastic(?) stock & selector, being I was in a helicopter squadron, only got to shoot it at the dump.
Did my best John Wayne.
Tucked that tight against my side, let'er rip on full auto.
The side of my rib cage looked like raw meat from the hinged butt plate chewing it up.
I think that's the only time I ever got to shoot it.
Hard to believe at the qualify range we'd shoot from the 500 yard line with iron sights, I don't think I can see that far now.
Nice photos.
sam03
02-14-2011, 09:34 AM
Nice rifles
aliceinchains
02-14-2011, 03:15 PM
I went through PI in '66 & the M14 was our weapon.
Was even issued one in RVN, had a plastic(?) stock & selector, being I was in a helicopter squadron, only got to shoot it at the dump.
Did my best John Wayne.
Tucked that tight against my side, let'er rip on full auto.
The side of my rib cage looked like raw meat from the hinged butt plate chewing it up.
I think that's the only time I ever got to shoot it.
Hard to believe at the qualify range we'd shoot from the 500 yard line with iron sights, I don't think I can see that far now.
Nice photos.



Welcome to the forum BlueFletch.
blobman
02-14-2011, 04:26 PM
dem rifle make a me so horny:zzombie:
aliceinchains
02-14-2011, 04:56 PM
Wish i was raised on that.:cool1:
MJ1
02-14-2011, 08:04 PM
It wasn't that great at the time. LOL
Gunner1558
03-30-2011, 09:15 PM
Same one I trained on in '66.

Finally got a polytech couple of years back. Shoots better than I can.
MJ1
03-31-2011, 12:16 PM
Good looking rifle. If I may ask, why the muzzle break instead of a flash supressor?

Why it's to save the children silly,,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/montereyjack/c6107251.jpg
MJ1
03-31-2011, 12:21 PM
Nice rifle,are the mags CA compliant or preban?

Note that the rifles are from '81 and '82 and half the magazines came from Viet Nam in my footlocker so preban private property.