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Originally Posted by Papa Zero Three
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Concur. The times, they do be a changing. When shooting a carbine (M4/M4gery) not only am I putting the magazine on the ground, I'm loading it just like I would a bipod on my precision rifle. And when I'm out playing silly "gun games" I'm choosing between 20, 30, and 40 round magazines to get maximum advantage (my neck doesn't flex the way it used to when I was 20). And that's to rapidly hit 3 MOA targets out to 300+ (carbine appropriate ranges). I also crush and dispose of bad magazines - believe it or not they're supposed to be expendable/disposable.
Side note - SF's current M4A1s are spec'd to have DD free-float handguards. Barrel harmonics and shifting POI are no longer the problem they used to be. Unfortunately, because Mother Army is still supplying the barrels (P2 vs. P11 money), they have the standard front sight assy which is dorky as hell poking up from the middle of the handguard.
Lots of older "wisdom" that has been rendered obsolete by lessons learned in the last 15 years of continuous combat. I'm just fortunate by the nature of my current job to be able to follow the changes (and adopt the ones I like) as they're being debated, validated, and implemented.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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