Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

I was helping a friend move this weekend. Spent the last couple days over in Idaho. We had a few hours to kill while waiting for the rental truck to become available so I figured we would hit a few gun shops. Lemme tell ya, kids…..they take their boomsticks pretty seriously in Idaho. Check out this fairly rare number:

Cool, no? I know what youre thinking….”Wow, someone took an HK SL8 and made it into a G36 clone!”. Thats an interesting thought, and also not quite correct. Check out the receiver markings that I’m pretty sure you wont see every day:

Yup. Its a real factory semi-auto G36 sitting in the display counter at a little(!) Idaho gun shop. The proprietor told me an interesting story about it and the five others he has just like it. First G36 Ive ever handled. Didnt get to shoot it (yet) but it was very nice ergonomically and I liked the optic. Price? If you have to ask……

Also saw a little semi-auto MP5-PDW clone that for $2600 could have gone home with me but, really, who has that kinda coin to drop.

A++++ for Idaho. Will visit again.