Ar-15...

[M1911A1JohnBrowning]

MadDaddy

The guy I am talking about was shot in the chest, legs, arms and a couple of times in the head. He got significant internal organ damage and now has a bag to trap his waste matter. But he is still alive.

The moral of this story is not that 9mm's suck, after all, he should have died. The point is, flukes do happen, and thats why I like bigger bullets that reduce the odds of such flukes.

 

[madcap_magician]

good for you, cadet!


however, i think you don't have your priorities quite where they should be. sure, AR's are fun. but just think, after you're commissioned you'll probably qual on most small arms in the army, and you'll be given more than enough time behind an m16. after you get that brown bar, you'll have the opportunity to shoot all you want.


but right now you're in college. it's only 4 years of your life. you should be putting all available funds you've got towards beer, girls, and burritos. i'm serious.

just think. as an officer you'll have to qual on the m16. when you go to the field, you'll lug around that weapon. when you get sent to the sandbox you'll pretty much be required to carry your weapon anywhere off base. to top it off you'll have to maintain the accountability of your weapon, plus all your mens' weapons in your platoon. and eventually, on some lonely, hot, miserable day you'll look down at your m16 and just want to chuck it into a river. the last thing you'll want is to come back stateside and have an AR waiting for you at home.

whereas, you could take all that money and blow it on strippers, beer, and maybe a girlfriend. then on that lonely, hot, miserable day you can look back on fond memories of your youth, and when you come back stateside maybe that girlfriend will be the one waiting for you at home.


"there is a time and place for everything. it's called college." - chef

A. I don't drink at all. Strange from a college student, but I don't. Medical reason, actually, I was born with Hepatitis B and my liver is scarred enough that processing alcohol can be problematic.
B. I date about as often as the Vikings win the Super Bowl, and by that standard I'm actually one up on them, so given past record I won't date for another year yet.
C. I don't like Mexican food.
D. I have a moral pity towards strippers, and I'd probably go cruising the internet for Busse porn rather than watch some dubiously attractive forty-year old with fake breasts.
E. I don't date like normal people, it doesn't usually cost me a great deal for what I do with girlfriends. Don't usually do the fancy dinners and presents and whatnot, it's enough to love and be loved.

Being Army ROTC is only part of my thing for the M16, too. Ever since I was four, I've had that weird fascination with everything military. I just love weapons. Sounds strange, and possibly sickly abnormal, but there it is, I do. I fell in love with the design of the M16, and even if I wasn't Army ROTC (And I might not be pending results of the PT test) I'd probably want one.

And there's not necessarily anything wrong with the hose style of firing... I mean, when I volunteered to waste the rest of the ammunition we brought with us, we got mad when they wouldn't authorized standing fire in burst mode. I mean, it may not be effective, but it's sure as hell FUN...