Random thought.

[gridlore]

I really miss cleaning my M-16. Honestly. Disassembling the weapon, cleaning all the parts, oiling it, reassembling.. it was a relaxing thing for me.

Except for trying to get the last few bits of fused crap out of the chamber. That caused stress.

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[caerbannogbunny.livejournal.com]

By one while you still can. I mean, you can find them but there pretty expensive.

If you want a semi, you may have to build your own. There sort of flying off the shelves right now.

[caerbannogbunny.livejournal.com]

Make that BUY one while you still can.

[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

After a while it becomes sort of a meditation, yeah. you're paying attention - but at the same time, your body is doing the actions methodically and automatically, without conscious thought - you're paying attention not to the actions, but the results.

I picked up a DPMS AR-15 last week (not in panic mode - been planning to pick up one for some time, for CMP competition shooting, but the money just ended up in the same place as an AR at a reasonable price, so I grabbed it), and I swear, the last owner never disassembled the bolt or did any PMCS on the damn thing other than running a dry patch through the barrel. I pulled enough carbon out of that bolt and chamber to build a human being, I think.

Shooting it yesterday reminded me of one thing I'd forgotten - the rattle of the buffer spring as it compresses and then sends the buffer and bolt back into battery, after each shot is fired.

Now I just need to get some decent optics for it, on the cheap(ish) - ACOGs may be wonderful pieces of hardware, but I sure as hell am not paying half-again as much for the glass as I did for the gun itself....