Amazing AIA, they're baack

[jmoore]

I'm just happy Mr. Lee's design is still "alive" and in production in some form. My initial attraction to the rifle came not from its history but from its function/ergonomics. (Horrors to some, I'm sure!) Aside from brute strength issues and benchrest accuracy potential, the package still seems to me the best fighting turnbolt rifle ever developed.

"Poo-poo"-ing a current production version is like a '98 Mauser fan complaining about Zatava/Remington 798s. So what if its no longer military? Be happy some folk thought enough of the design to go the the LARGE trouble of making new ones for "regular" folk. If you can't have a new semiauto center fire rifle, what would your choice be for a rough and tumble weapon, esp. if you face the possibility of being away from "civilization" for a length of time? Some folk LIKE "new".

I salute AIA for doing something so "stupid"! I hope they sell hundreds of thousands of 'em.

Heck, they ought to come up w/ a trim little sporter that makes Bubba trade in the L-E he was a'fixin' to cut up, as some nutty collector will actually pay money for that "old clunker".