Search results

The linear comp helps with the noise, by pushing it down range, rather than back in the shooter's face. Look in the bright side, we may soon be able to get suppressors without F Troop approval. That would be particularly nice for these short guns.

I like my 11.5" 223 braced AR. Home made, shoots well with Bear Creek barrel. It has a linear comp to help mitigate the noise.

The thing looks interesting, particularly if you like the idea of the straight pull rifles used in biathlon, but the removable barrel seems to me to be a weak point for accuracy. I do notice from the various reports that the accuracy with good ammo is rather casual, but the accuracy with high...

I think 11.5" is a pretty good length for an AR pistol, particularly with a linear comp to push much of the noise down range, away from the shooter, and away from reflection off an overhead covering on the covered line.

What if, during the selection process that resulted in the M-14, when Armalite submitted the AR-10, they hadn’t insisted on a light weight barrel, against the advice of Gene Stoner, and the barrel of the AR-10 had not burst during sustained firing? Would the .308 AR-10 have been selected over...

The Israelis are showing some sense buying the machine gun in .308. In the US, we have not learned Better is the Enemy of Good. The Army wants to convert rifles and machine guns to an optimum caliber to fight the last war, while Biden has been trying to drag us into WW III, after we have given...

I built a .350 Legend with a Wilson 16” barrel. I load mine with minimum load of Lil Gun powder with 124 gr. 9mm RN bullets. The maximum overall length in the charts is 2.050”, but mine doesn’t feed reliably at that length. At 2.12” they feed fine and are pretty accurate. Looking at the feed...

Including when you are getting shot at? I liked to spend most of my time at 500 kts and above.

I confess that as a Marine pilot, I got to fly helos, but most of my time was in the F-4B/N. Helos are great if you like to fly in slow motion. I prefer jets.

I built an AR pistol in .223. Hated it. LOUD! I built a pistol in .350 Legend. Much better.

The titanium version is lighter. How does the durability compare?

As one of the old guys who flew the F-4 back in the '70's, I must say I disagree with the tone of the discussion. This a/c was designed about 10 yrs after WWII. It was supersonic, had pretty good range and carried a bunch. It was the Western a/c to which all other fighters were compared, both...

The YF-16 and YF-17 were a result of the victory by the Israelis in the 6 Day War in 1967 using Day VFR fighters. We had a competition to come up with our own DVFR fighter, and the YF-16 and YF-17 were the result. The problem was, that by the 1973 Mid East war, we found out the day of the Day...

As someone who flew the F-4, I was underwhelmed by the F'8. It was going away by the time I finished flight training in 1972. The F-8 was basically a Day VFR fighter. The F-4 was an all weather Intercepter that could be used as a fighter bomber.

Glad Will got to fly a fairly fast mover after flying slow movers in the Army. I got to fly fast movers in the Marine Corps, F-4's.