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Btl1994 Want to build GM Hydramatic... 12-27-2019, 10:21 AM
browningautorifle If you know of a machine shop... 12-27-2019, 10:54 AM
Btl1994 I guess thata the route I'd... 12-27-2019, 11:32 AM
HOOKED ON HISTORY Nodak-Spud makes some very... 12-27-2019, 12:50 PM
Btl1994 Thanks for the tip! I guess a... 12-27-2019, 12:55 PM
old tanker When I was a drill sergeant... 12-27-2019, 01:54 PM
HOOKED ON HISTORY They have gotten hard to... 12-27-2019, 03:47 PM
old tanker They were pretty hard to find... 12-27-2019, 04:20 PM
browningautorifle A neat collector's piece and... 12-27-2019, 07:21 PM
mrclark303 That's new to me, you learn... 12-30-2019, 10:45 AM
old tanker I do not know. That is what... 12-30-2019, 06:22 PM
El Woodman Likely a slightly stiffer... 04-22-2020, 01:27 PM
fjruple I have looked at this... 04-23-2020, 09:31 AM
MikieG Back in 89 i had an H&R A1 in... 04-14-2020, 06:53 PM
pocketshaver when dealing with the M16 in... 05-06-2020, 01:09 PM
Brian Dick Yes, you must keep them... 05-06-2020, 03:53 PM
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    When I was a drill sergeant at Fort Campbell in 1971-1972. Our company had M16A1 rifles from all three manufacturers, Colt, H&R and GM-Hydramatic, with most being GM. When issuing the rifles to each incoming cycle of trainees we made a concerted effort to ensure all the left handed shooters were issued Colts. Our observation then was that the Colts tended to eject brass pretty much straight out the side. The H&R seemed to have no discernible tendency while the Hydramatics very much toward the rear. On the ranges we always put all the left handed shooters together on the left end of the firing line. A trainee with hot brass down his shirt and a loaded rifle in his hands could generate more excitement than you wanted. Along about this time PS MAGAZINE, the Army's Preventative Maintenance "comic book" actually "advertised" a plastic brass deflector that snapped into the hole in the charging handle and advised "southpaws" how to get one through the Training Aids Support Office or "TASO" or by the Training Audiovisual Service Center or "TASC."

    You can see in the picture that it is plainly marked "TASO-FJSC," having been produced by the Training Aids Support Office, Fort Jackson, South Carolina

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