I've mentioned from time to time that I used to work at a gun store in Florida. The manager of that store has been my friend for the better part of a decade, and I was very excited to attend his wedding this weekend. He decided to have a pre-wedding shoot for some of his in-laws and friends from New Jersey and California. Since the shoot was thrown together at the last minute, I didn't have time fill out the forms for any shorties. I was also traveling with my wife, daughter, two year old son, and EIGHT suitcases. Consequently, I only brought a Noveske and a silencer, which got a bit lost in the crowd. However, there were a lot of neat guns there, and I figured I'd share some of them here:
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Big table of guns. Enough tax stamps to deserve a name on the ATF headquarters, instead of just inside it.
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Gun in the center is a Knight's Armament SR-25 ECC. I want it very bad, and it isn't cheap. Nor is the Schmidt & Bender Short Dot sitting on top of it. This thing is absolutely fantastic. Light weight, but you don't get rocked around by it. Very smooth. There is one for sale at the shop, but at just shy of $5k, I'd rather it break my heart than my wife break my arm.
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So very, very awesome.
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The venerable Heckler & Koch MP5 in 9mm. It's been around something like 50 years, but the classics never age. Very controllable on full auto. On three round burst, it was no challenge at all to keep them all on the steel plate at 50 yards. Full auto just required a little fore-thought to keep the majority on the plate as well. I've probably had a dozen opportunities to shoot one of these in the last few years, and have always enjoyed it, although the transferables are way beyond my budget.
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FN Scar. I want to like it, but it doesn't do anything for me that my ARs don't already. I can kind of see the use of the Scar 17 as a very light weight infantry .308, but the Scar 16 isn't worth the price to me.
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Back to the SR-25 ECC, because it is pure awesomeness.
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In terms of pure unobtanium, there is the Heckler & Koch HK-416. We used it with a Surefire 60 round magazine to try and knock the plate over, but it wasn't quite controllable enough to do it at 50 yards. Aside from the fact that it is made from Unicorn tears and forged in the dying light of dwarf stars, it didn't seem all that different from most other full auto ARs I've shot.
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An AAC gun in 300 BLK. I'm on the fence about this one. My buddy is heavily invested in it's commercial success, and hypes it quite a bit. I liked shooting it, but I haven't gone that route for the same reasons I've stayed away from 6.8 and 5.7; ammo availability. I don't want something with only one commercial source of ammo or very limited market availability. Figure I will give it another year or two to see how things shake out.
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I really like this gun. I ordered the parts to build one myself after this weekend. You forget just how ridiculously light these things were before we bolted on 5 tons of crap. I'm not going to stop bolting on 5 tons of crap, but I will keep one of them as simple as possible to stay in touch with my roots.
I had a great time, but I am jet-lagged to hell, and have to get back on a plane early tomorrow for work. No rest for the wicked.
