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I'm sure many have seen this picture The guy on the left is Charles Benjamin "Chuck" Mawhinney (born 1949) is a United States Marine who holds the Corps' record for the most confirmed sniper kills, having recorded 103 confirmed kills and 216 probable kills in 16 months during the Vietnam War. Mawhinney, the son of a World War II Marine Corps veteran, was born in 1949 in Lakeview, Oregon, and was an avid hunter in his youth. He graduated from high school in June 1967 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps later that year—after the deer season. Following enlistment, he attended Scout Sniper School at Camp Pendleton and graduated in April 1968. From there he received orders to South Vietnam where upon arrival he was assigned as a rifleman to Lima Company 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. He remained in this unit for 3 months until he was re-assigned to 5th Marine Regiment HQ Scout Sniper Platoon. There he worked as a scout sniper for different companies with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions. He also worked with the South Korean Marines, Force Recon, Army CAG Unit, but the majority of his time was with Delta Company. During this tour he is credited with 103 confirmed People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Viet Cong (VC) kills and 216 probables. He spent 16 months in Vietnam, starting in early 1968. On Valentine's Day 1969, Mawhinney encountered an enemy platoon and killed 16 PAVN soldiers with head shots. "It was the ultimate hunting trip: a man hunting another man who was hunting me," Mawhinney told the Los Angeles Times. "Don't talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don't fight back with rifles and scopes. I just loved it." Mawhinney sought to change the public perception about snipers, who he maintains save lives by sapping the enemy's will to fight. "My rules of engagement were simple: If they had a weapon, they were going down. Except for an NVA paymaster I hit at 900 yards, everyone I killed had a weapon," he said. Mawhinney's one regret was the one that got away. After a leave from Vietnam, he returned and retrieved his weapon from the armorer, who assured Mawhinney that he hadn't altered the rifle. But when Mawhinney spotted an enemy at only 300 yards, a range he was routinely a deadly shot, he missed several times, and the man got away. "I can't help thinking about how many people that he may have killed later, how many of my friends, how many Marines. He [messed] up and he deserved to die. That still bothers me."[1] After a chaplain declared him "combat fatigued", Mawhinney returned to the United States and served briefly as a marksmanship instructor at Camp Pendleton.

When a double zoomed in it seems the sharpie white body up against the knife plastic bits made it look like a single unit rather than two tools touching.

That's great news and well deserved sir. Now you have more time to focus on the important things

You are a paitent man, the cuts are really clean. What did you use to cut the foam, what exactly is the knife holder in the first picture?

@Magwa does it with style and grace

Wish all of you a Happy New Year here's to looking at 2021 in the rear view mirror.

I know @98Z5V is missing all that to play in the dunes. I sure you feel as bad for him as I do...

His post Vietnam service story in itself is also a worthwhile read. Imagine putting on and wearing a stiff shooting jacket on a hot day just so you could compete, after having suffered the burns he did?

Enjoy brother, just know you're missing the snow that's going to change to freezing rain Saterday night here.

A giant among mere mortals

Found a donner gun back east so this is happening In the spirit of this fourm I bought this one because buying two saved money and free shipping Sadley it appears @Lonewolf McQuade has had a busy shopping spree 'cause when I tried @Belt Fed's card but got refused.

Came across this, never heard of it but the dual magazine set up caught my eye. The design and especially the workmanship is something to see.

Merry Christmas to the world's greatest group of deplorable! Here's hoping things settle down and borders open up what can I say but I'm needing to get me some Arizona desert time. Here's hoping you and your loved ones are well and we can look 2021's crap in the rear view mirror.

The events of June 4 have been wiped from the history books in China and any discussion of the crackdown is strictly censored and controlled. Tiananmen is a prime target of the Great Firewall, China’s sprawling online censorship apparatus. Activists have spent years attempting to get past by using coded phrases such as “May 35” or “that year.” In the lead-up to June 4, internet users in China complained about difficulties accessing virtual private networks, a common method of bypassing the firewall, while posts on Chinese social media have been restricted or deleted as companies ramp up censorship during this sensitive period. June 4 has been nicknamed “internet maintenance day” for the number of websites that go offline around the anniversary, their owners deciding that being dark is safer than accidentally publishing something which could provoke the ire of the authorities.

Something that takes up little space and add almost no weight are contractor garbage bags. If one of the bags is orange, cutting the seams tums it into a signal panel. As a bag they can be used to carry water, gathering kindling/small branches and keeping them dry. They can be used to make a windbreak, emergency rain gear, keep gear dry.

Well if @Belt Fed bought a second one he could make a duel gun set up similar to

Yet all this could have been prevented by simply putting up

Agree I can imagine the conversation between to engineers on the trial.... "well in theory this should work"

It's what happens when the installer reads the Karma Sutra instead of a code book

Yep somehow that will get played at Tue. morning site meeting

Hi @xXSteev0Xx, The first thing I've learned here is how little I know about large frame ARs. Buying a matching/same manufacture upper/lower set saves a lot of head aches, don't always believe the guy behind the counter selling you stuff. While I own a couple large frame ARs I've yet to build one, fortunately there are people here with the knowledge to answer your questions so like you I'll be learning as you go through this build.

Welcome from BC All parts are relevant as some parts play better with other parts. This is more critical with large frame AR as the interchangeability between manufactures/parts is not a given.