Comments on: IT’S NEW!

By: Toronto

Toronto — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:45:41 +0000

Red: At least it was lighter than an FAL (I carried the “FNC1″ version, and never in combat.) With the bayonet and sling, it was over 10.5 pounds, unloaded.

Mike: No, I’m not from North Of Steeles. I’m originally from WAY NoS (Baie James area) but most of my farming experience was in Nova Scotia, where it gets hot enough when doing field work.

By: Red

Red — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:53 +0000

As some who has had to carry that blasted rifle, I can tell you that it realy needs to go back to the drawing board,it has waaaay too many problems! And I am not talking redesign the out side like they have done, but the inside!…worse piece of crap ever in combat!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:41:00 +0000

Toronto, what are you… from Richmond Hill? Working the fields is what makes farmers tough and strong!

By: sam

sam — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:37:49 +0000

I don’t think they put enough thought into that mailman’s mask.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:55:34 +0000

Did Mr. MacFarlane use the mini lathe to mill parts for an even smaller lathe?

(That’s how I thought nano-technology would work when I was a child,
but I couldn’t figure out how electric motors could be scaled down.)

By: Toronto

Toronto — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:32:34 +0000

Charlene – do you know where McFarlane lived?

Mike: I’ve been in fields in Canada where it was too hot to be on a tractor. I could see the Aussies wanting to be in the shade of a gum tree instead of out under the sun on their Holden.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:20:50 +0000

Manzer MacFarlane died only a few years after this photo was taken.

His wife died three weeks ago, at the age of 103.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:47:24 +0000

I see the one guy controlling the tractor by remote control will replace the one guy operating it normally.

By: Neil Russell

Neil Russell — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:28:47 +0000

My little boy got a toy gun for his birthday a few years back and the package declared loudly that it was an M-16.
I think I bored anyone within earshot that it was really an AR-10 that chambered .308 rounds. Just look at the charging handle up there inside the carrying handle and….

damn, that is boring.
Always wanted to shoot one of them though!

By: Adam C.

Adam C. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:17:26 +0000

Yeah, the M16/AR15 is over 50 years old. Eugene Stoner’s legacy lives on…