interesting pic

[gixxer_kid]

hope its not a dupe but found this on the boston website. not the brightest bulb.

 

[ochmude]

Why does the Army get issued the good mags?!?!?!

 

[KingPing]

Thats just crazy!

"Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction"

 

[gixxer_kid]

i wonder if he's a righty or a lefty. look at the sling...

 

[OCB]

What's up with the paracord wrapped around his optic?

 

[BigMike]

is that the clerk from that CT store?

 

[ochmude]

What's up with the paracord wrapped around his optic?

Sorta like a lanyard for when the screws loosen up and it falls off, he won't lose it.

 

[gixxer_kid]

What's up with the paracord wrapped around his optic?

its the new mil-spec mount

 

[Titan]

Why does the Army get issued the good mags?!?!?!

Maybe he bought his own for the better quality (could only afford three). It looks like he's got one metal mag in his belt.

 

[Speedway]

Is that kid squatting a grumpy?

 

[MassMark]

Guys walking around in Jansport daypacks blow up, mortar rounds land in the schoolyard and the market where his old man buys food exploded last week....Staring up the barrel of an M4 is the least of this kids problems....

 

[ochmude]

Is that kid squatting a grumpy?

Better to do it now then after he gets on a plane.

 

[Sputa Arms]

Nothin like waking up in the morning to a couple of wonderful 5.56 rounds for breakfast

 

[tele_mark]

I was looking at the damn picture for 10 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong and feeling like an idiot because I couldn't. Until I realized it was an oversized pic and I had to scroll right to see the rest of it.

 

[THUNDERCHIEF]

What was the caption of the pic on the site you got it from?

 

[Monty]

I was looking at the damn picture for 10 minutes trying to figure out what was wring and feeling like an idiot because I couldn't. Until I realized it was an oversized pic and I had to scroll right to see the rest of it.

+1 You admitted what I did as well.

 

[terraformer]

What pic? All I see is a ? where the pic should be and when I try to manually display the pic using this URL, it times out.
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_12_30/a17_21443787.jpg

 

[Blitz1]

I was looking at the damn picture for 10 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong and feeling like an idiot because I couldn't. Until I realized it was an oversized pic and I had to scroll right to see the rest of it.

HA!! Me too.

 

[SteelShooter]

Nothin like waking up in the morning to a couple of wonderful 5.56 rounds for breakfast

Is that 5.56, looks bigger to my novice untrained eyes?

 

[WayneWong]

It looks shopped to me.

 

[Ultimate]

It looks shopped to me.

It is. The colors are way off and the kid is a lower resolution than the rest of the pic.

 

[drgrant]

Guys walking around in Jansport daypacks blow up, mortar rounds land in the schoolyard and the market where his old man buys food exploded last week....Staring up the barrel of an M4 is the least of this kids problems....

This.

-Mike

 

[drgrant]

It is. The colors are way off and the kid is a lower resolution than the rest of the pic.

It does look kinda funny.... esp the way the kid is squinting... "omg theres nothing in there!"

-Mike

 

[Bill Nance]

Guys walking around in Jansport daypacks blow up, mortar rounds land in the schoolyard and the market where his old man buys food exploded last week....Staring up the barrel of an M4 is the least of this kids problems....

You have a point....

 

[sieveboy]

What a bunch of crap on that rifle...where are the curb feelers?

 

[gixxer_kid]

Idk if it's fake or not. It was in the Boston news in photos section at Boston.com. Archived back in November.

 

[M1911]

Thats just crazy!

"Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction"

Looks like a safe direction to me

 

[jonathans]

pixellation of that sort happens all the time. low light on complex surfaces like skin, coupled with a limited color palette, and a fairly busy photograph.

i would say it is not photoshopped given that it is ridiculously hard to clean up the areas around wisps of hair when doctoring a shot.

you cannot see even one pixel remnant from the alleged old photograph the kid came from. everything in and around those wisps of hair is the background from that actual photo. the low quality of his face is better explained by motion blur. how long can you hold still peeping down the barrel of a loaded rifle?

 

[center442]

Is that kid squatting a grumpy?

If I was staring down the business end of an apparently loaded rifle, like that kid, I would have to change my Depends.

 

[RichM]

What's up with the paracord wrapped around his optic?

Sorta like a lanyard for when the screws loosen up and it falls off, he won't lose it.

Exactly right... you don't want to be the one that lost a piece of "sensitive items" assigned to you! Night vision goggles fall in to the same category! Notice the lanyard on his Beretta as well.

It does look kinda funny.... esp the way the kid is squinting... "omg theres nothing in there!"

-Mike

Especially since the Soldier has a back plastic cap covering the end of the muzzle / flash hider! These are readily avalable and keep the barrel MUCH cleaner, but they can be shot through if necessary...


It also looks like he doesn't use his front grip often; I think that the black strip on his magazine well is the pressure switch for his laser /IR light, so he must grip there with his support hand more frequently.