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It's Tuesday

by Whaleoil on December 28, 2010

It’s Tuesday, its hot, I’m busy, chat amongst yourselves.

Topic suggestions:

  • Targets for harpooning
  • Technology reviews
  • If the army was to replace the Steyr AUG IW what should they get?

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  • Doug

    For a sexy looking assault rifle you can’t go past the HK416.

    http://www.hk-usa.com/military_products/hk416_general.asp

  • mattyman

    Harpoon John Minto.

  • kram

    Save the whales, harpoon a jap.

    Tuesday arvo and its blowing a gale and pissing down in the north Wairarapa. The mobile fried bread van has shut up shop for the day as the last customer just blew past my office window destined for parts unknown.

  • mikeman

    G36 is a better option IMHO.

    Lighter and a wider range of options.

  • titanuranus

    Cost will determine what weapon is chosen by the govt,as was the case when the Steyr was purchased,this weapon was trialed by the army and found deficient and reported as such to the relevant department,yet cost overrode any concerns the bean counters had over our soldiers welfare in a combat situation.
    So don`t hold out any hope that this time things will be any different, unless of course,John Keys son joins the army as an infantryman.

  • hagues

    Harpoon Bill English and Nick Smith.

  • mikeman

    If cost is the driving factor then an M16/M4 of some sort is probably the best bet.

    What other options are there in 5.56mm? (NATO Standard SS109 is a must I guess)

    L85 is a pile of junk.
    FA MAS is a funny joke.
    G36/HK416 are good options but expensive being H&K
    New Steyr’s (HAHAHAHA)
    FN SCAR/F2000 (both FN options will not be cheap)
    Bushmaster ACR (Recently recalled by Remington to fix a runaway issue)
    IMI Galil/Tavor (A hot potato politically)
    Sig SG550 (Will make the rest look cheap I would guess)

  • animalmother

    Bah – beat me to it, Mikester. yes, M4 gets my vote. The number of fun add-ons is just crazy. I always liked the FN SLR’S but they’re a bit of a museum piece nowadays, and then the ammo isn’t 5.56 either. A clown I knew from the territorials said the Steyr just would be lucky to fire even single shot if any but any grit got in the selector.

    And who’s the dickless article with nothing better to do than putting no votes on everybody? Harpoon that gimp.

  • spiker

    The Chinese would probably do us a good deal on the QBZ-95.

    • mikeman

      Yeah but would we want them?

      Bushmaster M4′s are probably the best option for our budget, I would love to see FN SCAR-L and SCAR-H in the inventory but I think they will be way too much money.

      • spiker

        Probably not, just putting out there. Owning 5 AR15s myself I know what I prefer. ;-)

  • oswaldbastable

    Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

    • animalmother

      “Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.”

      Hey, Buddy – just what you see!

  • sooty

    It must be just about time for the tennis again? How about protesting John Minto outside the game. We could set up over the road from him and read him his pedigree and at his place about 2.30 in the morning .

    • animalmother

      If the IDF sniper girl is playing again, I suggest we let her have the pleasure of “taking out” minto with the rifle of her choice.

  • jmac

    +1 Minto

  • tristanb

    You comment is awaiting moderation. – that’s the message I got when posting to a Blondie topic about immigrants and fishing.

    I see our comments are now checked for approval, and I can see some on that page were also heavily censored.

    Is this happening site wide?

    Why don’t you just turn off comments altogether? Or do you want to say something designed to be controversial, then only allow comments that agree with what you say.

    Say what you will about Whaleoil, at least he had the integrity to allow open discussion.

    • Blondie

      Hmmm – I actually had no idea about your comment awaiting moderation. I’ll check?

      Re the comment that I censored – if some egg wants to make comments about me, that’s one thing. But if they go on to make snide remarks about Whale’s wife and kids – well that’s a bit different. Agreed?

    • Blondie

      The actual reason your comment was awaiting moderation, tristanb, had nothing to do with the fact you called me racist or trash in your comment. Rather, it’s an automated response to the huge number of weblinks on your post. This setting is, I imagine, designed to prevent spam, and was established a long time before I started up. I don’t even know how to change that setting, for your information.

      Get over yourself, egg. If I only allowed comments that agree with me, then probably 80% of the comments on my posts wouldn’t be there.

  • kram

    My favourite rifle of all time was my Winchester 44 magnum pump gun. That and my 20 inch barrel Smith and Wesson 12 guage pump. God i loved those weapons. I get a lump in my throat just thinking about them.