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Not particularly concerned about shooting heavy OTMs through a short barrel. I've done enough of it.

It may not be on the approved list, but it wasn't designed for combat use and the fact that it...

It was designed for the SAW and adopted because it could penetrate a helmet.



No. It was made specifically for the AMU. It was taken to Afghanistan as a stopgap round in 2001. The design was...

According to most people that I've talked to, it will do enough. A friend of mine has killed people at 900M with an SPR.



Once you add up all the CS and CSS guys, then add the guys that use...

Realistically, if you think an infantry rifle should have a 600M range, then the M4 can already do it.

For that matter, the 95% of Soldiers that aren't tasked with shooting the enemy with an IW...

The chicken wing creates a pocket for the recoil pad/plate to sit in. I still shoot some hunting rifles like that.

With the M16/M4, you have to adapt a little bit for best results. You don't...

Nothing about shooting works well when you are wearing body armor.

The best thing to do is still go prone or find a barricade.

The downside being that if someone hits your barricade there is...

The only people that still use rulers to measure length of pull are the wing shooters. When they bring the weapon up from the high ready that they favor, they call it mounting, and for those...

He is correctly mounting the weapon. It's an M4, not a Perazzi.

It is around the same bullet weight and velocity, but the bullets have a better form factor and so they essentially have a much longer range. Tracer burnout will occur sooner.

As for how that...

The correct answer is 7x46. A 175 grain bullet at 2,400 feet per second, or a 120 at 3,000 or even something in between. With a 16 inch barrel.

If a PKM weighs in at 18 pounds, then a 16 inch...

I'm about to print the part about leadership and hang it up at work...

Wilf, the L96 is a great weapon, but it uses specialty ammo to achieve a slightly longer range than a machinegun.

It weighs the same as a SAW. And it takes a lot more training to use correctly.
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How so, Wilf?

I would have recommended a 5.56 weapon, but that's just me.

As an aside, a friend of mine was a consultant for LMT on the design of that rifle and he is the reason that it wasn't...

Certainly wasn't, and wouldn't. I just wanted to see what would happen. The guy who gave me the idea routinely shoots uppers for five times that long without cleaning and has fewer issues than I...

I've fired 3500 rounds over three months through a gun with no malfunctions. I added lubricant by squirting oil through the gas vents on the side of the carrier. On the 3501st round the cases stuck...

Ken, I would be interested to know what you mean by maintenance intensive.

You can be specific, I've had a dozen AR15s over the last decade. :D

Ken, your point on on construction is well taken. A friend of mine tells me that the Mk 48 is a reliable weapon until exactly 1100 rounds are fired, at which point the gas system freezes solid and a...

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I found this online. It reiterates some of what I was told nearly a year ago, but it would have been inappropriate for me to mention it.

There is quite a bit of experience in this thread, so I'd like to ask how many rounds a box magazine would have to hold to make an AR viable.

Given length limitations, there is only so much longer...