We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:03:28 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:25:19 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84013 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84013 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:26:14 -0600
Been there, done that

Yes, it is fun, more fun than you're supposed to have.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84012 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84012 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:37:33 -0600 No, wait! Build it up with putty or something? Whatever, whoever did that does not seem to have concerned himself very much with looking through the sights. Sheesh! Doesn't he know that ammo is right expensive these days? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84007 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:25:05 -0600 Looking at that thing, I don't see how one could get a good cheek weld and simultaneously line up eyeball and both sights. If I had to use that piece, I might beat on the shovel handle with a hammer until I could achieve such alignment. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84006 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-84006 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:17:38 -0600 Romanians use them as issue weapons.  TF Zabul.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83998 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83998 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:41:14 -0600
Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83994 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83994 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:58:10 -0600
And, possibly, Law Enforcement.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83993 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83993 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:55:56 -0600
But who uses spade grips on an M-16???
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83990 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83990 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:50:59 -0600
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83988 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83988 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:52:02 -0600 Heh...
   I'll bet he stole that hadle off'n a "fire" truck too... :)

   It bein' red and all that.

   Just sayin...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83983 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83983 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:26:08 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83974 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83974 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:51:32 -0600 John - I wasn't being that serious and, like I said, your set up was great prose and I got a good belly laugh out of it, but you are the Armorer so we are driven to fill in the details (LOL). http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83968 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83968 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:06:24 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83967 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83967 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:00:27 -0600
All that said, I still think your set-up on this was great prose.   ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83966 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83966 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:55:04 -0600
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83964 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83964 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:32:12 -0600
Who is using them as issue weapons?
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83962 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83962 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:25:17 -0600 'Exciting handle' is rather apt, methinks... so long as someone else is paying for the ammo. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83961 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83961 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:11:18 -0600
Mine is funnier.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83960 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83960 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:10:24 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83959 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83959 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:56:59 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83958 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83958 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:56:35 -0600
"Well, it's a technique..."

If we could somehow find out precisely why this field modification was made, I've got  a sneaking suspicion that  we would discover that it had rather more to do with a broken butstock and a severe lack of replacement parts than it did with a desire for better accuracy.

Although, that really IS a real spade grip, isn't it?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83954 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/sometimes_thing.html#comment-83954 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:16:12 -0600