Retro rifle setups rock, 3 reasons why they are making a comeback
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Why wait? I watch on the 🚽.
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Charles, call the sheriff. Those two guys are larping in the back field again.
While everyone larps in the cool modern day tacticool gears; I'll be that one guy Larping in my good old Russian Dragoon 1812 Uniform carrying a Mosin Nagant at the firing range. LOL!
@@coolgamers2794 Um...officer, that commie is back again
@@enasnI99 Communist Joe Biden will rule the world! Muahahahha! Naw I'm fking with you. LOL. I can shoot my Mosin Nagant up to over 400 yards hitting 38 inch x 38 inch steel trap. Larping is a fail if you can't hit for shiat. Just like Garand Thumb said.
Deputy Meyer will be handling the case promptly
The Ron Jeremy subplot gets more and more advanced. There will be historians centuries from now trying to piece it all together.
I hope they think this is Ron Jeremy's back story. And all those.... Fun videos is what becomes of him XD
Sorry but... Ñ XD I am stupid
The Hedgehog lives to fight another day.
@@d.riprock1546
Dude got prison.
@@greggstrasser5791 I believe I did hear that now that you mention it.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same"
~General Shepard/Garand Thumb
Anddddd Snake Plissken
Plus ça change
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Admin is funny as fuck. I'm glad GT and him are finally getting together and making great content.
The dynamic duo that the LARPing world deserves.
Wait, admin is not an alt channel of GT’s?
Admin, formerly known as executive outcomes, has been around for awhile and they have just recently been working together.
Who the hell is that
Garand never ceases to amaze me. His production levels are a cut above. I don't think people realize the amount of time and effort that goes into a 30 minute clip. Kudos Mr. Thumb
People for some reason are surprised why there are still Mosins being fielded within the Ukraine conflict.
Those old battle rifles is never going away. Boom stick go boom.
The no reload detail during the whole scene is the icing on the cake . 👌
“In case the the bad guys have NODS”
“Yea, especially these days…clears throat”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did someone say Afghanland?
What’s the dollar amount in Biwions straight donated?
Gaytf intensifies
Fighter jets, helicopters, military M4s, etc.
@JScope Hummers, MRAPs, M16, sniper rifles, squad support MGs, demolition explosives and caps, target designators, even helicopters.
The armed forces left literally everything behind and destroyed nothing.
In addition we now have the top brass (Mark Milley and Kenneth McKenzie Jr, among others) sharing intelligence with the Taliban to combat "ISIS-K", whose existence is yet to be proven.
There have been trials for treason for less than that.
The transformation into Travis Haley was BRILLIANT, and spot on!!!
It made me question reality.
Yeah…scary accurate
Question who is travis haley?
@@jordanbolm8517 Garand thumb’s dad. He’s a badass. Look him up! Lots of cool videos.
I'm a younger guy (26) and just built my first retro rifle it's a A1/A2 hybrid dissipator using del-ton's true dissipator barrel, A2 carry handle upper and I have fallen in love with the carry handle and just the old school vibes it gives off I've always preferred the looks of the M16A1 and finally decided to spend the money to build my own version thanks to this video and Garand Thumbs M16A1 videos.
This collab goes so hard
Screenshotted at 4:50.
When you shot Macaulay Culkin threw the head with the Grenada launcher I literally lost it 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Something about the 80's low ready hip-fire shooting stance is just badass
Pretty much everything about the 80s was bad ass. Except stone washed jeans. Those sucked.
@@jimvac77 Acid washed is where its at.
Cool thing about a 20” barrel is the increase in velocity. Really making the most of that bullet. Where it gets interesting is when you start playing with twist and grain. I just switched out a 16” 556 barrel on one of my older builds for a 20” 223 wylde. So far it’s been a fun gun, way more accurate at long distance but the weight took alittle getting used to.
Can't wait for the day when Mike makes an actual movie.
Enjoyed this alot. Was USMC 0351 from 1980 to 1989. I truly have fond memories of the field mods we all did and shared. Really sucked when you came back stateside and had to strip off all the duct tape etc..lol lol lol. I truly miss my M203. With that in hand I always knew that I could seriously adjust health records on assholes.. thx SF Kenny
There’s that Jurrassic Park movie he was in
Of course using riggers tape to half ass attach a mag light to your A1 or A2 was a exercise in, man I hope this shit will stay together, as you hit the deck or a corner. Then ther was the joy of turning it on or off...lol lol lol
If you are gonna use a canteen strap, just bend a piece of cardboard and jam it in the hook, then tape that thing down.
Been using mine like that for almost 2 years, and it has bent very slightly since i have done that, but im confident it isnt going to break anytime soon
Can we all take a minute to acknowledge how good admins impression of Travis Haley was
You guys are having too much fun with these: I love it. I used to larp (airsoft) with an M733. I had a big external battery wrapped in electrical tape (to make it black), and then attached to the top of the handguard (interjection: retro skinny M733 handguard is super comfy and vastly superior to M3 handguards) like a giant PEQ using more electrical tape. It was simple, it was cheap, and it gave me the big battery amperage I needed to run the gun. That's what makes retro rifles so cool: guys had a gun, and then they were like, "I wanna see good in dark rooms: I'm gonna stick a flashlight on this gun" and then they just fucking went and did it with duct tape or string or whatever was laying around. It's simple and it works and it doesn't take fancy gear and thousands of dollars worth of CNC'ed boutique accessories. Light, simple gun is better: especially if you have to actually carry it around and use it all day. Less stuff to break! Less stuff to carry! If it breaks, I stick it back on with a fresh piece of tape.
Retro guns are also like collectible cars: everyone's getting to that age where they're nostalgic for the guns used by their childhood heroes-- whether those were real people or just movie characters. Everyone's building the poster-guns of their youth. Blackhawk Down and Ghost Recon vibes for days. Didn't realize so many people loved Blood Diamond but it's just been NON STOP Blood Diamond meme videos for a while now, holy shit. Makes me happy.
Back when I played airsoft I had M16A2+M203 combo that looked just like the gun in this video, except I had a 4x replica Colt scope on the carry handle. The fixed stock was great for those bulky Ni-cad batteries. Nowadays you could fit a more powerful Lipo in the handguards of the M733 ;-)
@@kmieciu4ever Lipo batteries were in an awkward place when I quit: you could only get 7 or 11v packs-- 7 was a little low and 11 gave you crazy, gear-stripping RoF. They also had pretty limited capacity and liked to overheat and fail if you discharged them too much. I liked the big bulky 9.6v nickel metal hydride batteries-- they had a good discharge rate and excellent capacity.
@@ganthrithor that or you accidently furn your F2000 into a melty mess because you decided to run a Lipo in the Cali desert heat. Or those fun times when you didn't helicopter mom the early Lipo batteries while they are charging and come home from a five minute walk to the gas station to find two fried batteries. Never used Lipo batteries after that
Excellent video. Love the older style rifles, and I've found their owners to be solid as well. Watched a GenX shooter massacre the range with his new M1A tanker two weeks ago, while two Gucci-gunners with Honey Badgers and a Valmet just stood there agog. Training is definitely the X factor. Cool breakdown; thanks.
Bro, I lost it at the Travis Haley bit. Dude, that was SPOT ON. This video slaps all-around.
One the use of red dotscopes are needed for quick precise shots. And old guys, and yes I'm a old guy and nearsighted. And my ar15 carbine is my choice for most incidents. But my primary home defensive weapon is a ar9 carbine. Both set up the same way. With Trijicon night sights that replaced my front and rear sights. Free flote
Yeah, I use irons for most applications and trijicon night sights are my favorite. I served in the early 90's when all we had were irons, and we were damn good at using them.
@@mitchellnelms7572well back in the seventies Iron sights were all we had on handguns. And for my time in the military and two tours in Vietnam and as a corrections officer and later as a local police officer and a retired federal lsw enforcement officer and firearms intructor. I've seen a lot of new innovations applied to firearms over the years. And two really stand out. One was red dot scopes for rifles and weapons mounted lights. And weapons mounted lights are a necessity on any defensive handgun. And the same goes for long guns from ar 15s to
@@mitchellnelms7572 I agree one hundred percent. But for a police or personal defensive weapon, be it a handgun or shotgun or rifle especially in law enforcement or civilian armed encounters a weapons light is essential along with a good dot scope. Because collateral damage to a innocent individual is basically a failure. And with a good dot scope and a good weapons mounted light, along with the training on it's proper use, a good dot scope and a good high powered weapons light really is a game changer. And allows for threat identification and to tell the difference between a threat or your kid trying to sneak in after curfew or your dog just wandering around the house. And let's be completely honest, as a responsible gun owner it's imperative to identify a legitimate threat form a family member or pet makeing noise at night in the dark. And with my streamlight protac HLX I can actually blind anyone in front of it in a darkened area. And from the moment I used a dot scope on my duty ar15 and had to search a darkened building. It proved once and for all the benefits of dit scopes and weapons mounted lights
Can I ask you why you chose to use the 9 for home defense instead of the 5.56? Thanks man, I know you have a reason, just wondering because I can’t think of any pluses. If that sounded condescending it’s absolutely not meant that way.
@@shanek6582 Only plus I could think of is would be less risk of overpenetrating walls and hitting neighbors and whatnot. Perhaps recoil control and not to completely ruin your ears
back in the 80s i rigged up an extra M60 sling, tied with paracord for a very good patrol sling on my M16A2
Honestly, the videography and cinematography in your videos are unparalleled to ANY other gun-tuber. Keep doing gods work.
Love the retro brought back a lot of memories, as a team leader I carried a m16a2m203. Served 90 to 98!
That weapon system is like those heavy-metal double-guitars
Been working very hard on my first ever full build. With zero knowledge of what I was doing starting out, I've been trying to build a M16A2 clone in .308. It's definitely a HEAVY weapon with a 22" barrel, but I am absolutely loving it. The most recent problem I'm running into is what i believe to be a weak recoil spring, and trying to find an affordable scope that can stay zeroed through decent use, while being attached to the carry handle.
You've just blasted Macaulay Culkin's head with a 40 mil.
Acceptable casualties
I see nothing wrong here.
That Matt Damion gif of him aging in Saving Privet Ryan is how I feel about seeing my OIF setup as a "retro" rifle.
Same, ran M16A4 with iron sights in OIF 2006, and that exact 203 setup minus the optic. Worked just fine.
Same. M16A2/203 during the invasion and A4/203 in 2005. Irons only.
Retros are awesome! I've wanted to build a Vietnam era CAR15 for quite some time. My first experience in the US Army with the M203 was with the M16 with the holes in the handguard. Love it! Great video.
Definitely the best opening for a gun video I’ve ever seen.
This video is perfect to watch while you're drunk as shit, like I am right now, perfect.
best banger intro with Admin. seeing this again after 1 yr
"Incase someone else has IR."
"Yeah, you never know, especially nowdays."
*clears throat*
Nice one haha
Gotta love that TRUMP peace deal!
11:54 “there is nothing wrong with running a older weapon” *AK47 enters the chat*
*laughs in m1a*
Love that 203. Carried one about 35 years ago. Still like to have it
About 10 years ago, I had the privilege of attaching an M203 to my AR and firing chalk and sponge rounds at empty barrels in a rock quarry. Seeing you blast that 40mm projectile straight through the kid's head got me laughing so hard, i struggled to move my cursor over the like button to click it. This brings back good memories.
fun fact about retro gun setups: my unit still does rifle qual with the M16A4 + Trijicon TA31 ACOG
Just finished my pride and joy retro build my Mk12 Mod 1 clone correct minus scope and I just bought the AEM5 today can’t wait to take her to the range
They are coming back for the same reason 90's sport cars are going up in value. Boys growing from that era are now grown adults and still want the toys they could not afford then.
I think this has a lot of truth to it.
You’ve hit on something i kinda ran into recently for my first “modern” rifle. Up until now i had the family’s hunting rifle and I decided to go and get an ar15 with the flat rail. Threw a red dot on it and even with the taller mount it comes with; Everything feels too low, gotta cram my head in the sight box or gotta raise the butt higher in my shoulder than I’m used to. Didnt think about getting a carry handle maybe that will bring it all together again.
Yeah unfortunately detachable carry handles will lose zero faster if you have an optic mounted on them but man is it nice not having to bend your neck so low when you have the opticl on top of the carry handle
Have to say, that was really great dad advice. Definitely something that can/is overlooked
"Retro" is "coming back" because every dumb mofo has gone so far into tacticool that it's utterly insane. Civilian market has gone so far into making every mofo want to be a what's called "Tier One Operator" that everyone forgot the basics. Now a lot of people think that having good gear is substitute for actually being good with it. The reasons are multiple, but to keep it short and in no particular order:
"Retro" is LIGHTER.
"Retro" is SMOOTHER.
"Retro" is ENOUGH FOR MOST USES.
"Retro" DOESN'T COST A BOMB!
"Retro" is more RELIABLE!
Military requirements were born out of cold hard necessity. Too many accessories make a rifle idiotic.
It’s so bad that it’s kind of reassuring in that in the past few years, with all the talk of civil conflict and dramatic stuff that’s happened. At least all of the footage of armed protesters, no matter what side, they just look like idiot CoD larpers, not the beginning of another civil war.
Been saying the same thing for years. I have noticed that people will pour more time and money on the furniture for their firearms, than actually going to the range or even practicing basic tactics.
Triangular handguards, pencil barrel, duckbill flashhider and Creedence Clearwater Revival on the 8 track.
@@theosprey7111 I've never shot better than when I was in the army with my 16A1 and irons.
My perfect mk18 setup if I had one: eotech sight, a vertical grip, and a laser
Man I lowkey love the old woodland cammies. I'm an old head at heart 🤣
“And then he loots you” TOOK ME OUT LMAOOO
Gotta love those old but reliable weapons they make you feel like you've travelled back in time and make you look cool.
I live in the neutered UK, you people have no idea how much I want to work with guns, I want to own and operate firearms for a living, I'm a wicked good shot with the air rifles we're allowed here and it just gives me such a fucking kick, but the mechanical side of it calls to me too, taking them apart, periodic weapon maintenance, reloading ammo, the lot of it, I've never wanted a career in anything else
There are some countries in the EU that have lax firearm laws and you should have little to no problem obtaining them either.
@@CakeDispenser yes but it's getting to those countries and settling and integrating that's the problem, Americans come pre packaged with the English language and similar cultural values and mindsets, different sure, but more similar than say Sweden or the Balkans
@@thehypest6118 You're right about the cultural barrier and I completely forgot about that. Hope someday you can visit U.S. or Canada and pop into a gun range and shoot some guns.
Retro rifles still kick ass, and are proven, reliable platforms.
I think retro rifles are coming back for the same reason people like 80s cars. It invokes this feeling of a time we always see in books and tv but have never experienced. And cause sh*t was just goated at times in the 80s
I'm just excited to see the short films these guys make. Straight gold.
Your content is so good and the dry humor... I've never signed up for Patreon but I did for you. Thank you for the videos 🤙
The 20 inch barrel is something that needs to be in every military service member, period!! The ballistics are do much better and much more accurate!!
I only own 16in and 20in barrels. We ran M16A4 in Iraq, no optics, irons only, in 2006. Worked fine. Later ran M4s with our choice of optic (trijicon, M2, Eotech) on the next deployment. I have no need to go shorter. I like the accuracy and velocity.
Or we could just find a caliber that better agrees with shorter barrels. I do love 20 inch ARs though. Very sexy.
yeah but 16" is pretty great as far as the trade-off for range/accuracy but being livable with vehicular born ops/CQB
Aren't they a bit unruly during room clearing?
The reason the military went shorter is because they wanted better CQC capabilities, which were crucial in Afghanistan due to ambushes and raids.
this video this damned video is what made the m203 hand guards so incredibly scarce fuck you garand thumb i love your content
Hell, I was tickled pink when Colt added a brass deflector to the upper: anything after that was just icing on the cake.
That said, I trained on the early rifles, and didn't really play with an A2 type until I seperated, but it was all I ever needed. I watched over the years as the AR was modernized, and while I always thought some "upgrades" were/are the best thing since sliced bread, the original rifle was just dandy as it was.
Right about the time this video came out, I spent a day shooting with a friend (20 years my junior): all he'd ever fired was M-4 types. I let him fire my full-length A-2, and soon as he puts it upto his shoulder, he says "THIS is what AR's need - a fixed stock!"
Then, we yanked the crappy red dot off his carbine (it wasn't zeroed, he didn't have instructions for it - it isn't even a name brand, just a cheap POS), I gave him a rear flip-up iron sight, and taught him how to use it, and told him to become proficient with irons, then get a good optic - but to retain the ability to switch back easily.
🙂
Mike's gun is ahead of its time, the red dot is even free floated.
Colt is The goat!!! Every one always trying to fix something that not broken
I think a lot of old guys are getting ready for a fight and they’re gonna go back to they are used to training with and fighting with. Because we know it works.
Could be. . .
Who you going to fight? Liberals?
I'm catching this vid more than two years later, doing my first retro builds.
One other thing I'd like to say, and my own personal reason I'm doing one (besides the cool factor)- Car-15s are LIGHT. Even with a WML and dot. Starting to realize that the gucci stuff I've had on newer type builds, while useful, is also not always necessary.
Every single episode I love this channel more and more. Thank you for being a major light in my life, Mike. ❤️
Glad I kept my older guns and components. When receivers were cheap I bought a few and would just build newer models or buy complete guns instead of cannibalizing older guns. I like the shorter guns but if I had to choose one it would be a 20" A4 with a VLTOR Emod stock.
an 80s war against the soviets would’ve been aesthetic asf
Garand daddy definitely single handedly keeps that target company in business.
Absolute chad energy
"Cause the other guys might have IR, you never know... especially nowadays..."
Milley, I'm lookin at you 😡
F**ks sake, what’d he do now?
@@boomerkobold3943 Make himself an enemy of the country he serves on a daily basis?
@@RichmondEstes well that's just a given.
Awesome job - you guys are spot on that family is everything.
Second career for GT, teaching them how to make proper movies
As always and amazing video 👏. Also love the fact you threw in addressing the importance of family focus. I hope we are never in a situation where the skills you demonstrate are needed, but the ones we love will depend on them if it comes to it. Stay safe, stay fit.
The most 80s event of the year.
Nice job. U guys did so great on this vid. It's up there in the top ten.
Retro rifles just work. You can get retro (clone) parts that are better than their original counterparts. If running with iron sights you can get M16A2 sights with Tritium. My question is obviously there are those who can’t afford top shelf parts but can afford middle or upper middle shelf parts. What parts would you advise to be only top shelf?
GT and Admin together, my life is fulfilled I can die happy now 😍
Love my1842 Springfield smoothbore musket (talk about retro).... 110 grains of powder pushing whatever you want to put down the spout.... but seriously, retro ARs are just stripped down tools, without all the crap attached to it, that catches on everything while you're trying to deploy it.....SF from '84 - '01.
We literally need to make a tv show based off of flannel daddy's intros
It would be better than literally everything modern Hollyweird puts out that’s for sure.
@@CaesarGB that it would be.
I got my colt sporter 35 years ago..I’m very good with iron sights
I was scoffing at the M16 (despite being a fan of the looks of the older, more retro guns...something like the famous Kar98k) because it was far too big. Then after a while of looking at modern guns and getting overly full of them, I circle back to looking up the M16. As big daddy Garand Thumb said, it really is a cycle.
I personally want an M16A4 with the KAC rail, it’s just what I grew up seeing the military carry before they all swapped to M4’s, my current AR is an M4, need to change some furniture out as I want to make it more of a 12.5 with an extended rail (so I could tuck the suppressor under the end or have it butted up for a clean look) , but next is definitely M16A4
Your dad’s going to kill him for mocking him 😂🤣
That Predator intro was priceless
“If it bleeds we can kill it”
Best intro to a video I have ever seen
0:20 that was a blunt not a cigar
M81 Woodland still rules and you can't convince me otherwise.
This is really really well made
Best part ! Was the end . Great advice.
"Building retro rifles is typically cheaper" it was until this video dropped 🤣
I've been trying to build a XM-177E2 clone for a year and a half. No parts. Not cheaper. Sigh.
Great video man, I loved you guys going over the retro guns!
Awesome message at the end. Amen. Every once in while, not often, I’ll watch or hear something that breaks through and reaches outside of the media (video, text, audio, etc.) and makes an emotional/personal connection inside me that awakens a self-awareness above just the daily motions, and puts perspective into the important things in life that lets us really live purposefully. Thank you for that message. It’s easy to get absorbed with things in life and looking for comfort in our own ways, but a message like yours about spending time with family is really powerful. I think we need to hear that in our busy world. Its effect is like a ripple in the matrix, a good reminder, and a good enlightenment. Thank you.
- "The more things change, the more they stay the same"
- General Shepard
Nah. Our shit was just better!
Perpetual Conflict.
G. Michael Hopf - 'Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.' Honestly man I swear Garand Thumb is the new FPS Russia with this insane budget lmao okay stay safe and don't do drugs, bye guys
"Good, that's one less loose end."
“Boundaries shift, new players step in, but power always finds a way to rest its head.”
Years ago, I was stopped by a State Cop on Rt. 2 in central MA - while he was running my plate, I noticed he had a sniper badge on his tunic. I'm a shooter, and I asked him what rifle he's use if he were sniping. He announced proudly 'I have a pre-64 Winchester 70!' - to which I replied - 'I've always been a K98 kind of guy.' We argued for about 10 minutes until he got another call - he turned to me, said "I have to go - BUT YOU'RE WRONG' and left. Got out of a ticket lol.
The old "My Dick is Bigger Than Your Dick" distraction. Works every time.
When the Crayolas come out, you know it's REALLY a big deal.
Lol genuine human moment.
Based
LOL would pick a W70 prior using 98k...in the end, who really cares.
Respect
The production value of the intros bro, got a whole ass helicopter this time
Still spends more on ammo hahaha
Ass helicopters are the best.
@@dcyphyr unless it's cold in the tent
@@NoNo_IStay excuses, excuses.
Grandpa Travis and Flannel dad love their kids.
Somehow people forgot that Stoner designed the "carry handle" to also serve as both a rear sight and an optics mount. That's why it was the right height to start with.
Tbf, Rise over Bore
An optics mount? It was designed in the late 50s, early 60s lol
@@zachbartlett2829 Ever since the trigger charging handle design was changed, it had a hole to mount optics. During the Vietnam era, there were some 3x and 4x scopes for it too. So yes, a highly suboptimal optics mount.
There is also now rail attachments for them - so it’s at the right hight and above the front sight.
@@rustythefoxcoon5143 front sight doesn't matter. you don't see it because magic or parallax or something
Don’t let anyone tell you that larping in full kit with your friends isn’t cool after this
Those who says fully all out Larping isnt cool. They gotta shut themselves in the poor category.
@OwO How are you still alive? I've seen your botting everywhere and you still aren't banned!
Y’know it’s funny, anti-gun people will still call them larpers as if it’s an insult.
Larping is a good way to train your body and mind. Larping is helps you do *Combat Conditioning given that all the weight on you will help you do good cardio.* In reality would you ever see the need to field your entire battle gears in a SHTF in the USA? Probably not. If the world was to end like in *Fall Out Video Game Series* or something like the *Purge Movie* happening then yeah Larping would definitely be good.
Maybe not LARPing. Maybe its a better idea to focus on, and return to, the basics thoroughly and often? Maybe the time for full kit is when you start to incorporate collective training? When you start to add 'move' and 'communicate' to the 'shoot'? I am not playing down the LARPing as much as I am advocating prioritization so the things you use in each step add to, rather than distract from, the quality of the training you do.
The A2 with M203 is i think the best looking assault rifle ever made. Just has that 90's-00's Marine feel to it.
It looks ready to command the battle field like a mofo
i was thinking 80's, but yeah.
60s
In my opinion the A4 with an ACOG is the best looking. Such a good look
It's pretty fucking cool
Retro rifles are making a comeback for a few reasons:
1. Sometimes to go forward in skill, you have to go backwards in technology. Learning how to use A2 sights is a great skill, since they can be used to determine range, properly lead a target, and dial in bullet drop.
2. Lighter rifles are more mobile rifles.
3. They are cool.
Two buddies of mine hate retro rifles because they think modern AR15s are the best, while the old school rifles don't fire 223 and parts aren't identical, when it's the same damn rifle. To me, I think retro rifles like the XM177E2, CAR15, and the M16A2 were the best and are still being used today by numerous militaries and law enforcement.
@@OuroborosScumbag Why wouldnt an old school rifle shoot .223? Most original ones from the 70s I have seen are stamped .223 on the receiver.
The ones with 1:12 twists wont stabilize M855 green tips if thats what you mean.
@@takingbacktoxic7898 That's what they think or probably assume. I don't know much about the AR-15/M16 rifle system, I'm more knowledgeable with the AK-47/74
@@OuroborosScumbag I have both. You'd like it, same role, different controls. Each has its quirks and charm, as well as advantages and disadvantages.
@@takingbacktoxic7898 I've been looking into building an XM177E2 clone
Impressive how you managed to shoot a little movie without shooting a cinematographer and a director.
And they knew they were using actual guns with live ammo too! Interesting how different a situation turns out when you aren't an anti gunner leftoid, and actually know how to safely use a gun
Underrated comment right here folks!
Not too soon??
Thats what happens when you don’t have amateur idiots working on set.
Almost as if Garand thumb knows what he is doing and didn't aim a gun at a person intentionally.
Nobody cried about the inadequacy of 556, until everyone started carrying short barrels.
20 inch barrels making practice ammunition into duty ammunition
So true!
@@GarandThumb This is why I'm so fucking happy my service rifle (C7A2) uses a 20 inch barrel, and half the guys I work with don't understand why I prefer it over the carbines lmao
@@GarandThumb especially frangible rounds 😈 try that in ballistic gel
@@burnyburnoutze2nd I built my M16E1 "clone" on a C7 upper with the carry handle/A1 rear sights. Those uppers also have a brass deflector that the A1 spec uppers do not have. Great for lefties.
P.S. If anyone plans to do that. I found that the channel in the upper for the rear sight parts didn't seem to be machined deep enough. Eventually got the spring and bolt in but the rear sight is super tight to switch between aperatures. Not a deal breaker but something to be aware of.
Few months ago, I remember goin to my local Sportsman's Warehouse and hearing a bunch of people gasp and guffaw pointing and taking your picture while hiding behind aisles with their cell phones. Having no idea who tf you were, I asked you why everybody was freaking out. You replied saying you had a TH-cam channel and I asked what the name of it was and when you said "Garand Thumb" I had the most clueless look on my face cuz I thought you said "Grand Thumb". You humbly explained and encouraged me to check it out and gave me some advice on Glock stuff point being, this guy's cool as shit IRL and I've been watching your vids for a while and just now remembered I met you lol
Yeah Garand Thumb got quite famous, I'm not even in the US and I know who he is.
I mer Jimmy Carr last weekend.
@@Fighting_Fatigue_117 who?
@@elena6516 Jimmy Carr
@@elena6516 comedian
Whenever we had an IG inspection we would have to get our rifles and take all of our tape/modifications off and clean them until they looked like they just came out of the crate. After the inspection we would take a day to refit and zero. It was some of the dumbest shot known to man.
Bureaucratic checklisting. In the Soviet Union they hunted some whale species to extinction for the whale oil even after they stopped needing as much because they never updated the old quotas and no one wanted to be the one to knock on the lead bureaucrat's office door to tell him that.
Dude, don’t ever stop being you. Those intros never cease to entertain.
The opening intros are better than anything out of Hollywood in a looong time. Plus the firearm safety is better than an Alec Baldwin film.
Brandon just posted about it
*_oof_*
Maaaaaaan just had to say it 😂
Lmao oh shit 😂
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Simplicity of "just make it F-ing reliable" will outlive everything.
Just like a 2 stroke motorcycle.
Yeah pretty much. I don't give a shit how modular my gun is. Guys managed to do heavy damage with basic weaponry back in the day. If you train hard enough you can nail targets same as the guy with an EOTech and a foregrip.
@@Nomad0311 you are missing some subplots there but essentially yes
@@Nomad0311
I mean unless that tacticool guy has a acog and you're shooting pretty far out
@@Nomad0311 At the least have an ACOG, because once the marines got them issued they killed so many enemies people thought they were doing executions so I got a feeling it really helps
Technology is getting to be too much. I want a retro 20 inch for a couple reasons.
1. The older I get the more I am getting into the historical side of things. An m16a2 Vietnam era rifle would be awesome as a wall hanger and a shooter.
2. The unbelievable price of these optics and "tactical" gear for an ar15 are out of hand.
3. If you can't shoot with irons, you don't deserve optics.
M16a2 wasnt used in vietnam
Only the m16 and the m16a1 was
(and yes im a nerd)
@@jiujitsu5000 nigga wrote a whole paragraph to justify his shit aim with irons. Cope
@@jiujitsu5000 ur last sentence make ur whole comment seem like it came right out of a bulls ass. deployed in and out of iraq for 6 years and never used ur iron sights? i call BS
mUh iRoNs sUpReMaCy
Get outta here with that.
@@dmfc1777 I can, and have hit targets out to 200m with the iron sights on my SIG MPX. I've hit targets out to 500m with the iron sights on a SCAR. Literally anyone can.
It's just stupid to think you're superior because you prefer irons over optics.
"That one guy with a Colt and Alice gear who smokes you."
You're talking about Paul Harrell aren't you Mike? We should all be so wise as to fear that man.
The hours he’s dedicated into testing, and thus continual training…. A sage indeed.
And if for some odd reason he doesn't hit you, he can always talk you to death.
Paul = the heros of super heros
*insert picture of Paul holding a pistol to the camera
Paul Harrell doesn’t even use ALICE. He just rolls up to the apocalypse in that cream coat, pulls two boxes of different ammo out of the pockets and goes to work. (And apologizes for the noise of gun fire in the background).