Dave DeLaurant
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I bought my M1A Tanker because I wanted a shorter Garand and this rifle was discounted, but I'll admit the purchase was also influenced by its nice walnut stock.
I'm mainly a wood and steel guy, but when a spotted barely-used Springfield synthetic stock at a reasonable price, I jumped. If I'm going to get dents on something, I'd rather it be on plastic, and the two stocks are easy enough to swap. I bought a matching black handguard from Fulton Armory that's going to stay with the action regardless of which stock its in -- black looks better with either stock IMO.
A long as I was taking photos, I decided to stage a quick fleet review of my kind-sorta black rifles. The M1A is shown beside my Fightlite AR-ish 5.56.
On the manually-operated side, here's my .223 Troy PAR under a comprehensively cosplayed CZ527 in .300 AAC/Blackout.
Both of these are folders that fit nicely into a mandolin case for discrete travel.
For rimfires, I just have a S&W M&P 15-22 -- it's truly black, being comprised of as much plastic as a Nylon 66.
These are all fun guns for me, although if things got weird enough around here (I am in California, after all), the Fightlite would probably be the rifle I'd reach for.
Now, off to the LGS to look at more wood and steel.
I'm mainly a wood and steel guy, but when a spotted barely-used Springfield synthetic stock at a reasonable price, I jumped. If I'm going to get dents on something, I'd rather it be on plastic, and the two stocks are easy enough to swap. I bought a matching black handguard from Fulton Armory that's going to stay with the action regardless of which stock its in -- black looks better with either stock IMO.
A long as I was taking photos, I decided to stage a quick fleet review of my kind-sorta black rifles. The M1A is shown beside my Fightlite AR-ish 5.56.
On the manually-operated side, here's my .223 Troy PAR under a comprehensively cosplayed CZ527 in .300 AAC/Blackout.
Both of these are folders that fit nicely into a mandolin case for discrete travel.
For rimfires, I just have a S&W M&P 15-22 -- it's truly black, being comprised of as much plastic as a Nylon 66.
These are all fun guns for me, although if things got weird enough around here (I am in California, after all), the Fightlite would probably be the rifle I'd reach for.
Now, off to the LGS to look at more wood and steel.
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