{"id":12155,"date":"2015-09-29T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=12155"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:47:32","slug":"aint-many-troubles-a-man-cant-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/aint-many-troubles-a-man-cant-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain’t Many Troubles a man can’t fix…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pathfinder<\/a><\/p>\n

Scout rifles, ARs, and the like – I’ve been on the quest for the ultimate, new millennium, general-purpose rifle. Might\u00a0I have found it? I’ve been working with Melvin Forbes at New Ultra Light Arms <\/a>to build up an ideal, do it all, anywhere, anytime, rifle. I drove up to Granville, West Virginia, yesterday and picked up what you might call a prototype.<\/p>\n

This New Ultra Light Arms model 20 in .308 Winchester has an 18 inch threaded barrel. Melvin attached a Surefire<\/a> suppressor adapter (flash-hider) to which he installed a front sight ramp. I installed an XS Sights’<\/a> white stripped blade. I also managed to round up some discontinued Weaver<\/a> Grand Slam bases for the model 20 and installed them with an XS Sights’ Weaver Low Backup<\/a>\u00a0rear sight.\u00a0For an optical sight, I mounted a Trijicon AccuPoint 1-4X<\/a> riflescope in Leupold QRW rings.<\/a><\/p>\n

To round it all out, you can remove the threaded flash hider – with front sight – and screw on a Surefire muzzle brake suppressor adapter. This little gem not only helps tame recoil, it allows for the use of the quick attach Surefire FA762SS suppressor. I’ll not tell you how well this rifle shoots; jealousy is a terrible thing to experience this early in the week.<\/p>\n

Jeff Cooper used to say something like, there ain’t many troubles a man can’t fix\u00a0with a seven hundred dollars and a .30-06. Well, Cooper\u00a0can keep his\u00a0old .30-06, but I would not mind the 700 dollars about right now. With that cash and this rifle, there’s a lot of\u00a0fix’n I could do.<\/p>\n

Here are some specifications you can envy:<\/p>\n

Length:<\/strong> 38.5 inches<\/p>\n

Weight:<\/strong> 5 pounds, 3 ounces (without scope) \/ 6 pounds 2 ounces (with scope) \/ 7 pounds, 6 ounces (with scope and suppressor)<\/p>\n

Capacity:<\/strong> 4 +1<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> I got the only one and it’s not for sale! If ti was, $ 700 would not touch it.<\/p>\n

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Scout rifles, ARs, and the like – I’ve been on the quest for the ultimate, new millennium, general-purpose rifle. Might\u00a0I have found it? I’ve been working with Melvin Forbes at New Ultra Light Arms to build up an ideal, do it all, anywhere, anytime, rifle. I drove up to Granville, West Virginia, yesterday and picked up what you might call a prototype. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2509,2500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-shooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3a3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11097,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/melvin-forbes-and-his-famous-rifle-stock\/","url_meta":{"origin":12155,"position":0},"title":"Melvin Forbes and his Famous Rifle Stock","author":"gunwriter","date":"January 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the last of a four-part video series on Melvin Forbes and the wondrous rifle he created 30 years ago. 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