Para308

Belt-fed weapons!

Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!

If you have the means and the ability and machines - that would be awesome to fabricate. I would really like to see the end product!

Not an M1A. It's an LRB M25! I really like the slab-sided look and the top-mounted rail for the scope rings. Just as a heads-up, M1A is a the proprietary name that the commercial company Springfield Armory were forced to name their M14 clones. Other companies like LRB, SEI, Fulton, Polytech/Norinco are not required to call them M1As. These companies can call them M14S or M14SA (for semi-automatic only) and the slab-sided are referred to as M25s.

You mean like this? LRB M25 with EBR and Criterion heavy barrel, 1x10 twist.

I highly recommend Ted Brown but the price is steep. You get what you pay for. Or go directly to LRB Arms and/or Wideners and get an LRB M14SA (semi-automatic) or LRB M25 already built. Or for the next alternative go to Fulton Armory - their receivers are not hammer-forged like the LRB Arms ones but they are excellent cast receivers.

You dream. ;-)

The pictures do not do justice to the color of the stock on the LRB M14SA. It has a redder tinge to the color and looks awesome in person.

Here are some really bad pictures of my new rifle by Ted Brown (who really did a great job!) and a couple of rifles I am thinking of getting as well. The first starting from the top a Springfield Armory M1D sniper is an CMP (or is it OCMP>) lottery. It came with the provenance, the box ("This Product Shipped From Defense Distribution Depot Anniston"), and a whole bunch of goodies, including flash suppressor, genuine M84 telescope with mount and whole bunch of goodies. Ted Brown, of course, built the rifle at the bottom, SN 03600 with NOS and NIW USGI parts except, I think for the Minelli stock, the LRB M14SA receiver, and LRB bolt. Then there is the all P. Beretta M1 Garand in the middle. RNGR1

Well I don't have the 10 free copies they are supposed to be sending me as per our contract yet so I don't know how the title has been translated. The topic is based off of my master's thesis which is how both the European Roman Catholic and the Sunni Muslim traditions of the the 14th century used Aristotle's "Posterior Analytics" (scientific or logical demonstration) and the idea of certainty in the understanding of divine revelation. The two men I compared were Gregory of Rimini, an Augustinian Prior General and Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi ad Din of Damascus, Syria a Hanbali Jurist Consult. The Saudi Wahabbis consider Ibn Taymiyya very important hence their interest in publishing my heavily revised thesis. It was almost a different work. I wanted to make some things much clearer. Oh well, lets see how it goes. To the Islamic Sunni tradition, logical demonstration was called "al burhan" and to the European Catholic Latin tradition it was called "demonstratio." It took me four years including languages like Classical Greek, Ecclesiastical Latin, and Medieval Arabic. When I was done my head hurt and I have been recovering since then!

Well, my book is going to be at a book fair in the Arab world. They finally got it translated into Arabic, edited and now published. It was a group effort among Saudi Arabia (the legal firm), the Egyptians, and the publishers in Beirut, Lebanon! I don't know if I will become the voice of reason, but if they are listening, maybe I can do something other than promote violence and hatred. I can always try.

I have the same rifle! I have been debating doing the exact same thing to it! Now I am extra motivated to do it! It will probably be next year though before I do it. I will post pictures. The ONLY thing I would do different is the bipod. My question is, though, why the glass bedding - since the whole point to the chassis is to not have to glass bed the rifle?

Even when I looked at the M1 Garand for the first time I realized what was going to happen and used the blade of my loading hand to keep the op rod/bolt back and prevented self from Garand thumb! NOOBS!

My apologies, he asked!

unforgiven, Sorry for the late reply! I have also been teaching 11th graders Dual Credit American History - survey level. It is for college credit. I have been touching on the subject of the Bill of Rights and the ratification debate between the Federalists and the so-called Anti-Federalists. Of course, I make many allusions to the present day mess our political and economic system is in! My book was just my M.A. thesis in which I compare and contrast how two 14th century men assess the validity of using Aristotle's Prior and Posterior Analytics in each tradition - the two men are Gregory of Rimini - an Augustinian Prior General, theologian, and teacher in Paris, originally from Rimini, Italy and Taqi ad Din, Ibn Taymiyya of Damascus, Syria who was a Sunni Juris-consult of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence. In Latin posterior analytics or scientific demonstration is called "demonstratio" while in Arabic it is called al-burhan. After I got my M.A. I threw it aside and forgot about it and took on PhD. studies. I may or may not survive my PhD. studies! A legal firm in Saudi Arabia got a hold of my university asking if they could contact me because they wanted to translate my thesis into Arabic in order to publish it in the Arabic speaking world (of course). I did a careful revision of my thesis and now it has been translated into Arabic. They actually paid me up front for the first printing! I am hoping it comes out in hardback! Anyway, it has gone through Egypt and now the publisher is doing a final editing on it in Beirut, Lebanon!

Good, just real busy with PhD studies preparing for exams. Also publishing a book in Arabic!

Thanks, I could not put in a comment. This site has been acting up on me lately. I don't know why! Anyway, the pistol is a Detonics Scoremaster in .451 Detonic Magnum. I have dies specifically for the .451 DM round and 500 piece of virgin OEM brass! Machinegunner, Blaine sent me a Detonics Patch with the snake for free which was very nice of him. The grips are made of aluminum and the emblem is of the 2nd Battalion, 504th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment - 82nd Airborne Division) which is my regimental affiliation. This is not official - it is an artist's rendering. The White Devils are the 2nd Battalion.

Just ordered.

No!

I would like to get an LMT MWS!

The SCAR17S! Very light, handy, accurate, recoils nicely, barrel changes out relatively easily.

I have finally successfully uploaded 5 pictures. For some reason I had to load each picture one by one and then click on preview first and then save! I never had to do this before. Very strange! But the pictures are up now. My apologies and hopefully the moderators will forgive irritation and not delete this thread. ;)

The Main Battle Rifle - Here are mine - a humble collection to whet the appetite! [img width=810 height=607]http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/abnfoto/P1020699.jpg[img width=810 height=607]http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/abnfoto/P1020678.jpg[img width=810 height=607]http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/abnfoto/P1020704.jpg[img width=810 height=607]http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/abnfoto/P1020707.jpgThese are my MBRs. The HK91 is not a clone, the FALs are by DSA(2003 build), the M25 is a Ted Brown build, the DPMS TAC20 has been enhanced with the heavy buffer and Armalite spring and Magpul goodies, the FN SCAR 17s is brand new and I indtend to get the Handl Aluminum (7075) lower so I can use the PMAGs. Enjoy!

That knife is a Randall and is a special run for Chris Stanaback who is one of the premier dealers for Randall Made knives. I am in the process of getting it now - the price is unbelievable and I will always get my money back if not more in future if I decide to sell it. It is a #14 with the grind for the saw teeth on the top but without the teeth. It is sharpened 2/3 of the way on top. I sent a jpg of it to Larry Vickers and he really likes the blade configuration. The black micarta looks really good along with the nickle-silver, forward-swept double hilt and stainless steel blade. I like the shape of the handle which helps to index the "correct" orientation of the knife in your hand.