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On 10/29/14 7:40 PM, Califbill wrote:
F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/29/14 4:54 PM, KC wrote:
On 10/29/2014 2:30 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:36:25 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/29/14 1:01 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:28:50 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/29/14 12:17 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:35:39 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/29/14 11:25 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:36:30 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/28/14 11:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:42:34 -0400, F*O*A*D
wrote:

On 10/28/14 5:52 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:08:54 -0400, F*O*A*D
wrote:

You send your kids out to collect plastic bottles by the
roadside to
turn in for deposit? I suppose that is easier on you than
finding and
keeping a decent job.

I think he is referring to your "hobby" of killing water
bottles and
performing mundane tasks on firearms, routinely performed by
third
world children.

Ahh, yes, I do enjoy shooting one and two liter sodapop
bottles, and I'm
going to start putting Mentos in some of them. Ginger ale,
I've found,
produces the biggest "explosions."

I doubt "third world children" are working on new in the box
Colt AR15s.

They might have some well-used ones that Dick Cheney's
corporation left
behind somewhere, though. I wonder if those kids have "Go"
and "No Go"
tools in their little kits when they need to replace the
barrels in
those Cheney Saturday Night Specials.

And since you are interested, I might upgrade the trigger in
my AR15.
It's a "milspec" trigger with a "milspec" 6-1/2 pound pull,
and is ok
but not great. I'd like a smoother trigger with maybe half
that amount
of pull.

For a moment there, I thought the Ingerfool family found a
good job
right out of the Grapes of Wrath.

It takes a lot more skill to keep those old M16s (and AKs)
running
than a new in the box AR.
The fact that you have access to lots of off the shelf parts
does not
enhance your argument.

I have no use or need for a select fire M16, though I don't see
where
regular maintenance on it would be any more difficult or even
significantly different than on my AR15. There's very little
difference
in stripping them down and keeping them running. Most of the
parts are
identical. The key is keeping the rifle clean and lubed.

I don't know anything about the care and maintenance of the AK
rifles.
They don't interest me.

Non responsive answer ... again.

Your posit was that it took more skill to keep an old M16
running. What
skills would it take beyond my ability to produce a working AR15
from a
stripped lower and upper? I have the skills I need to build and
maintain
my AR rifles. I know where all the pieces and parts go, including
the
various springs and detents. I have no desire or need to
manufacture a
billet lower or hammer a barrel.

As I stated, I don't know anything about AKs.

A 3d world child is keeping an old M16 running with limited access to
parts if any and it is usually a worn out Vietnam era M16A1 that we
gave away during one of our "save the world from communism"
misadventures.
That is far more difficult than simply dropping new parts in a new
lower. and acting like you are a master gunsmith.

Really. What parts are these Third World kids machining? Springs?
Detents? Levers? Are they carving parts out of hickory logs? Or are
they
simply scavenging parts out of one old rifle and tossing them into
another old rifle.

Exactly.

I made no claim of being a master gunsmith. I'm no more of a master
gunsmith than you are a master auto mechanic, public health expert, or
environmental engineer, or an expert in any of the other 100 areas in
which you've claimed mastery.

You only seem to hang your hat on that one skill, assembling erector
set guns..

I don't see rec.boats as a place where I would want to discuss or show
my expertise with Trompe-l'œil oil painting.

Oh brother.... learned a new word on the internets I see... lol.

No, you ignorant ass. Took art history classes (two) in college.

Or a drafting class.

Took mechanical drawing in junior high school. In those days, the public
schools had $$$ for interesting electives. Took "art" in two grades,
chorus in 9th grade. What did your junior high do for "culture,"
Bilious, hand out comic books?

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