Snapshot from today's range trip

[Oleg Volk]

Shooting Amish Bill's extra-ugly AR.

 

[Sven]

Looks like you have "Highpower Elbow" there.

 

[Oleg Volk]

A better view of the same rifle.

 

[PATH]

Ugly AR is only in the eye of the beholder and necessarily the shooter!

 

[Oleg Volk]

I shot Bill's Remington 700PSS and AR10T today. Shooting one-hole groups at 50m and one inchers at 100m was easy...so long as I shot off a bipod. Both guns were too front-heavy for me to fire without fatigue.
Conclusions: good triggers, good ammo matter. Good scopes matter even more. The shooter in all cases was the same (Oleg) and couldn't do even fractionally as well with an iron-sighted AR15. I think that a 16" HBAR in .223 with a 3.5x ACOG is in the future, because optics not only made it easier to hit a target, they made it possible to know if the target was a shoot/no-snoot.

 

[Oleg Volk]

Oleg, Barbara, Amish Bill

 

[Barbara]

I don't always look that happy..sometimes, I'm a little cranky.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

Aren't we all......

 

[cidirkona]

Hahah, I don't know how you're supposed to have a gun like that in your hand and not have a huge grin on your face...

-Colin

 

[Barbara]

Hey, that was a huge grin!

My question is: Why is Bill trying to avoid standing next to us?

 

[OEF_VET]

It looks like ya'll had fun. If I knew you were going, I may have been able join you. Oh well, there's always next Saturday.

 

[Tamara]

Oleg,

Tuck that durn elbow in, boy! You tryin' to fly or somethin'?

 

[JShirley]

1>Didn't Amish Bill used to have a beard?

2>Didn't he once live in GA?

John

 

[einnor1040]

If I knew you were going, I may have been able join you.

Ditto that.

 

[atek3]

MY EYES, OH GOD, MY EYES. why did you post the 'better view'?

jeez, wire stock, triangular handguard, naked muzzle, ouch.

just joshing you amish bill.
atek3

 

[Barbara]

LOL. Why at first did I think you were talking about me?

I wish I'd have gotten to meet you all. Maybe I'll make it down again sometime.

 

[MAURICE]

Wow. Judging by the pic, I now know who not to mess with out of those three.

 

[cidirkona]

Wow. Judging by the pic, I now know who not to mess with out of those three.

Yeah, that elbow could put an eye out!!
-Colin

 

[Smoke]

Oleg,

Is that one of SWFA's SS scopes on the AR your holding in the group shot?

Just curious.

Smoke

 

[Barbara]

Wow. Judging by the pic, I now know who not to mess with out of those three.

Aww, Bill's not scary!

 

[Stickjockey]

What kind of stock is that? Greasegun?

 

[Nightcrawler]

Stock is for a little seen variant of the M16 that's specifically designed as a firing port weapon on a tracked vehicle. IIRC, this same variant lacks a front sight post, so the stock is only as a last-resort type deal anyway. That M16 variant is full auto only.

 

[OEF_VET]

That version of the M-16 is known as the M231 and was developed for use with the M-2 Bradley family of vehicles.

 

[sturmruger]

Looks like you guys had a good time.

 

[Oleg Volk]

One of the pictures from the birthday shoot. Better rifle shooting form.