A necessary mutilation or just plain ugly?
On a side note to you suckers in California (since you have to think of such things): Does that stock for a pistol grip, or is it wholly a part of the stock?
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I don’t see it as ugly, it makes the M14 look like I space-gun.
The folks at Calguns.net keep track of this sort of thing very closely. There’s either a judicial ruling or a regulation specifying exactly what constitutes an eeevil feature “pistol grip” — I’m pretty sure it has something to do with where the web of the firing hand rests in relation to the trigger.
At first blush, I’d guess that stock would be just fine in Kali, but I could be wrong.
Make it in sky-blue camo, and I’d buy one. (I suppose I should buy an M1A first.)
What the hell is the purpose for sky camo anyway? I think it looks purty, but what’s it supposed to do — disguise your rifle when you’re standing on ridgelines against a clear blue sky?
Great point, David. The whole idea of camo rifles is absurd, except maybe for LERP ambushes in the jungle like the Rangers did in ‘nam. The whole idea of camoflage is to break up recognizable outlines, but when you have that barrel thingy and that bipod thingy which CAN’T be como’d, why camo the stock?
BTW, the whole idea of carrying an M14 into battle is to take the volume-fire hurt to the bad guys at a range far longer than they can take it to you, so camo becomes ridiculous.
If you are a scout-sniper, and you need to carry an M14, and your ego is so fragile ahat you have convinced yourself that your very existance depends on you camo (and not on your wits or on sound tactical doctrine), by all means, camo away! Enjoy it while you can, soldier, because you be coming home in a bag, boyo.
Hey Phil, do me a fave and caliper the (front) sight-tool hole (in the top of the front-sight hood) on your PTR91 for me, willya? This is about a $2000 question for me, tell ya more later.
You CAN use camo to break up the outline of the barrel and bipod, but very few folks who put camo paint on their rifles do it right.
I’m thinking of something akin to the ‘Dazzle’ patterns painted on ships in WWII. In this case, alternate vertical or near vertical random-width bands of appropriately toned light and dark color.
Main drawback I’ve heard on that stock is that it’s quite heavy.
You can paint the barrel and bipod, and there really isn’t a “wrong” way to do it. Even crappy camo beats no camo 90% of the time.
As far as using actual vegetation for the barrel/bipod rubber bands do the trick nicely.
Of course most people have absolutely no need for camo’d rifles.
Jimro
I Guess I am the strange one here because I think it looks cool. If they would be kind enough to give me one I would be glad to give you guys an evaluation from a truely amature standpoint. Do you think you can talk them into that for me Phil??
If I could, Red, I’d order up one for myself.