G'Day, Mate! This Rifle Didn't Make The Aussie Army, But You Can Have One!

By Bob Owens | 9:26 AM | June 09, 2016

The Bushmaster M17S is an interesting historical rifle with developmental roots in a 1986 era Australian military service rifle prototype. K&M is keeping the classic M17S alive with a modernized version currently available, but today we take a look at one of the original 1994-2005 rifles.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.