Did I get shafted on my new AR
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Did I get shafted on my new AR
Everyone talks about AR15 "platforms". I have looked all over mine and read the book, I cant find a "platform" anywhere. What is it used for? Do you stash stuff there? Stand on it?? It seems to shoot fine without it.
What say you??
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
You'll be fine.
Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
possible AR- "platform"..? ... :)
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
It's ok not to have a platform, as long as it is Tactical....!!!!!Chuck 100 yd wrote:Everyone talks about AR15 "platforms". I have looked all over mine and read the book, I cant find a "platform" anywhere. What is it used for? Do you stash stuff there? Stand on it?? It seems to shoot fine without it.
What say you??
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
Wait a minute, wait a miniute, wait a dang minute....How can it be tactical if it doesn't exist. Huh?AJMD429 wrote:It's ok not to have a platform, as long as it is Tactical....!!!!!Chuck 100 yd wrote:Everyone talks about AR15 "platforms". I have looked all over mine and read the book, I cant find a "platform" anywhere. What is it used for? Do you stash stuff there? Stand on it?? It seems to shoot fine without it.
What say you??
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
So, if it's a "tactical platform" it's too cool for school?
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
It has to be a Tactical Platformless AR...
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
tactical platforms are cool ! I've also heard the term "tactical shelf" before too (interchangeable with "German goiter", "beer storage device" , and other terms used to describe our bellies )
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
I'm around these AR guys all the time, along with about every other kind of guy. (straight guys, mind you)
The AR guys feel the need to be a step above and are products of the "new generation" who feel a need to be above "their daddies".
So......they call it a "platform", you know how they have to be superior. Did you ever notice that today everything is an "upgrade"?
Punks! When they see me at the club shooting an M-1A or a Garand, they come up and say,"cool, old school". Punks! While they are trying to shoot the 200 meter chickens with their $2,000 dollar 40X Nightforce scopes on $3,500 Les Baer's, I'm banging away at the 500 meter ram.....with open sights. Punks!---6
Oh! As far as being "shafted", well, let me tell you a story about how Mescalero sold me a gold mine. He got the gold and I got the shaft. ---6
The AR guys feel the need to be a step above and are products of the "new generation" who feel a need to be above "their daddies".
So......they call it a "platform", you know how they have to be superior. Did you ever notice that today everything is an "upgrade"?
Punks! When they see me at the club shooting an M-1A or a Garand, they come up and say,"cool, old school". Punks! While they are trying to shoot the 200 meter chickens with their $2,000 dollar 40X Nightforce scopes on $3,500 Les Baer's, I'm banging away at the 500 meter ram.....with open sights. Punks!---6
Oh! As far as being "shafted", well, let me tell you a story about how Mescalero sold me a gold mine. He got the gold and I got the shaft. ---6
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
If you don't have the 'platform', it's not a real AR.
It's an after-market knock off.
Kinda like a nickle plated Smithe & Weston revolver.
It's pretty, but it's not authentic.
It's an after-market knock off.
Kinda like a nickle plated Smithe & Weston revolver.
It's pretty, but it's not authentic.
Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
If it doesn't exist it's called 'STEALTH'vancelw wrote:Wait a minute, wait a miniute, wait a dang minute....How can it be tactical if it doesn't exist. Huh?AJMD429 wrote:It's ok not to have a platform, as long as it is Tactical....!!!!!Chuck 100 yd wrote:Everyone talks about AR15 "platforms". I have looked all over mine and read the book, I cant find a "platform" anywhere. What is it used for? Do you stash stuff there? Stand on it?? It seems to shoot fine without it.
What say you??
Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
And these are platforms.
If you don't believe me just ask Ms. Boots our resident forum model
If you don't believe me just ask Ms. Boots our resident forum model
Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
I got shafted on my last arrow purchase.
The AR type of rifle does not seem to be a platform to me. I guess that is just what the people who think it is the perfect weapon have to say to justify their belief. Maybe they think it is a platform since you can exchange uppers and magazines and have a different caliber. In that case, the 1911 is a platform since it can be interchanged with a couple of calibers by changing the upper parts. My Glock 22 is a platform in that sense because I can change the barrel and have a .357 Sig, change the barrel and Magazine and have a 9mm. Good Grief! Yes, the AR is a good design, but no, it is not the perfect design, and no, it is not a flat place that has been elevated for the storage of materials above the floor.
The AR type of rifle does not seem to be a platform to me. I guess that is just what the people who think it is the perfect weapon have to say to justify their belief. Maybe they think it is a platform since you can exchange uppers and magazines and have a different caliber. In that case, the 1911 is a platform since it can be interchanged with a couple of calibers by changing the upper parts. My Glock 22 is a platform in that sense because I can change the barrel and have a .357 Sig, change the barrel and Magazine and have a 9mm. Good Grief! Yes, the AR is a good design, but no, it is not the perfect design, and no, it is not a flat place that has been elevated for the storage of materials above the floor.
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
For the record............. I have never sold Sixgun anything
Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
I think I saw those in the Clothing Sales Store for the new "guys".....casastahle wrote:And these are platforms.
If you don't believe me just ask Ms. Boots our resident forum model
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
Now you all know what I prefer when it comes to footwear? Dontchacasastahle wrote:And these are platforms.
If you don't believe me just ask Ms. Boots our resident forum model
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
Yep & sweet corn
Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
No, they call it a platform because there are 326 different variations by 675 different manufacturers.
Slow is just slow.
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
Let ME set the record straight. Mescaline calls me one night and says, "yo Sixgun, I got a keg of beer and a VERY nice Jeep for you and the only thing you need to do is come out to New Mexico and bring 12K in cash".Mescalero wrote:For the record............. I have never sold Sixgun anything
I says, " Yo bro, we be on". So I take a week off of work........(yea, I let down a bunch of beaners).....and cruise on out to N.M. and this is what I find. There was not even a tap on the keg.----6
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
Nice tach and steering wheel!
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Re: Did I get shafted on my new AR
It is a Jeep, so it probably started on the first try. With a little bit of Bondo it would be looking good.
Hey Ms Boots, I like you in the cowboy boots. I don't think those other things would fit a set of spurs very well at all. Wouldn't be much good for standing in the pen and roping your saddle bronc, either.
Hey Ms Boots, I like you in the cowboy boots. I don't think those other things would fit a set of spurs very well at all. Wouldn't be much good for standing in the pen and roping your saddle bronc, either.
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Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost