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Dutch airline stewardess with an AR-10 for defense against polar bears in case of an arctic crash, 1958
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If I recall correctly, those are a quite rare AR-10 variant with single digit amounts still surviving. The featureless muzzle in this picture always catches my eye.
What features would you otherwise find on a muzzle?
An angry dog
A flashhider of some type would be seen on most variants sold by Armalite in the era.
flash hiders are common fittings.
What makes this variant so rare?
Rather than guess from memory, I looked it up.
The rifles were made on contract for KLM, and had a combination of features specific to that run. No one feature was too crazy, but this particular contract run of rifles was a small batch, and thus rare. 16 inch barrels with no muzzle device, semi-auto only, takedown pins on a chain.
That's a thing?! That's so smart!!! I gotta look into an aftermarket version of that. Like, I don't expect to lose the takedown pin nor do I think I'll ever really find myself taking it out somewhere I would drop it, but can't hurt to make extra sure I can't drop it.
The length of the chain may also be a detriment if you're carrying it anywhere it could snag.
The others were eaten by polar bears
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