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Old August 11, 2001, 07:31 PM   #3
yankytrash
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That's what I tried to tell the man. He insisted he used an M16A1, and it was 308 caliber.

I asked him if he was sure, and even showed him a 308 bullet and 223 bullet, along with some AR-15 mags. He still insisted it was 308 that he used.

I was never in the military, and never handled an M16, so I stopped arguing about it.

Funny thing. This argument reminded me of the same argument I had when I was a kid with a friend of mine. That kid claimed that his father carried a 308cal M16 in Vietnam. I argued that it was 223, but he wouldn't budge.
None of the men in my family ever went to Vietnam, so I had to drop the argument at that time for, basically, the same reason.

I guess the memory the caliber of the gun you carried is like the memory of how many girls you slept with - the remembered number is always a little higher than the actual...

Glad to see I'm not as mis-informed as I thought I was.
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