I agree wholeheartedly on the flash hider. Maybe it has a purpose - do they actually have much of a real affect on the muzzle flash? As in a previous comment on this post, night shooting would not be an impossibility from a number of perspectives, and if it actually helped reduce flash to the point that the shooter's vision wasn't negatively impacted, I suppose it could be helpful, but the adjustable buttstock is a HUGE asset, at least up north, where the difference for comfortable length of pull can amount to a solid inch or more from summer to winter. Once again, let me affirm the seemingly unanimous judgement of ugly, but hey, didn't ANY of you ever think that a V8 Gremlin might have been kind of fun, in spite of how it looked initially?