That sucks. I have and did. Crap. I hope he's still a lurker. I still enjoy bantering with you and JK. If given an ultimate choice between the rod and gun; I'd choose a fishing pole.
I wonder if less heat could facilitate a hotter powder charge with true benefit to point target range? Sorry I'm not Richard Feynman. Sometimes shit on paper doesn't translate real world.
In my feeble mind the defense of the Turd seems all about the tech voodoo which eliminated guns during the first part of Viet Nam. The later fabulous kill ratios reek of aggrandized body counts spewed by politically minded brass.
That is all.
IDK. In in my view just look at the damn thing. Maybe the F35 Shortbus?...The A-10 and Harrier have an elegance in their ugliness which inspires Evel Knievel/Dirty Harry types: