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coming from over 30 years of ownership of a very bad azz UBERIZED TO ALL HELL, HK-91 by ralph smith at RDTS w/1200 meter iron sights and (3) very uberized M1A's. (1) being a super duper match mcmillian/arrington from hell another a socom from hell and the last a "loaded", both done up by phil arrington to beat the band.
i'm just looking for a shooter. deer/elk/antelopezzz/bear/zombeez. at a good damn distance. no fuss no muss no mall ninja crap.
from what everyone said that i had talked to, this damn canadian L1A1 that i found and lost, was quite the model to own. dont know if thats true by your standards as you know FN's like i know M1A's and HK's.
do i want INCH?
do i want metric?
does it matter?
havent a clue.
i like the price point on the STG-58. is that a nice one for decent distance and reliability? w/ninja bipod/folding stock/black evil sling.
i love spoons that can get clobbered with mud dirt dust rain snow sleet puke. having nice spoons is real cool, but when ya feek 'em up, your heart just sinks and yer wallet gets lighter.
i did not get drawn for elk here this year. my buddy DID and its a LATE HUNT! and LATE HUNTS = MUD / SNOW/WET. and with that carrying a nice spoon in a case is fine and dandy, but yer pooing yerself if ya think yer gonna get that pup out of its case when ya see any kritters. on the bars front or back doesnt matter in a late hunt just plan on buying some rubbers for yer barrel and bringing some towels to wipe all the crap off. they just get wasted dirty. hell one late deer hunt here i may as well have thrown my damn m-1 carbine down in the mud and dragged it behind me..................for miles it was so covered in crap.
so thats what i am looking for in a fn. after watching britain kick the arggies azz all to hell in the falklands in just downright crap weather conditions, i know a fn is a great rifle. i am willing to spend whatever it takes to get one that just SHOOTS over and over and over with MINIMUM BABYSITTING!
to throw the other side of the coin in there, summers here are just as bad with all the dust. talk about learning HOW TO LUBE A SPOON and NOT LUBE A SPOON! may as well drag yer spoon behind ya in all the dust here. front or back of quad they just get filled with dust. the only way they DONT get filled with dust is going by yerself or being 3 miles in front of yer buddies quad.
so ya think a austrian STG-58 is the answer to my quest for a straight shooting all around spoon?
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