Quote Originally Posted by AlexTX ret View Post
This is something from Rec Guns that I think is a good start at trying to unravel this mess. I don't agree with many of its findings for I have different sources. Also, I feel that there is a certain bias but where would I find a place that wouldn't be. Gun Theology being what it is, everybody (including me) thinks they have a clue.

http://www.thegunzone.com/556dw.html

I hope this gives Wilf a sense of how long this SCHV rifle discussion has been going on. I have a few of the reports mentioned in the timeline so they're not pulling all of this stuff out of their *sses. But I can't vouch for the report's voracity. It's free, you get what you pay for.
As the author of the linked article, thank you for the plug. With the 5.56mm Timeline, I'm not trying to reach any conclusions. It is meant merely as a historical record of events. When I state the findings and conclusions from a specific report, I am merely repeating what was written by the authors of that report. Everything that I use is open source, although it is not always easily found. I prefer to go back to the primary sources where ever possible. Things can get twisted as they are repeated by successive authors. Of the secondary sources, I trust Ezell and McNaugher as they worked from archival documents and started early enough to interview most of the participants while they were still alive and had reasonably fresh memories of the events.

I have been working on the Timeline for 10 years, and it is currently just shy of 600 pages in length. It really couldn't be published anywhere other than the Net as I have no pretty pictures, and the subject matter is often too esoteric to be of broad interest. However, by being on the Net, I have no constraints as to length. For instance, the publisher of the recent book "American Rifle" demanded that the author's lengthy bibliography be left out in order to save pages, and thus, reduce printing costs.

If anyone has other original documents and sources that they'd like to provide or recommend, I'd gladly take a look.