Backfire occasionally dips into cheap vs. expensive, but he has become a competent reviewer of decent guns over the years. I sometimes visit when I get the itch to get a boltgun and want it shot down due to my own impatience/inability to even level a scope in rings.
I meant more like the London made pieces that cost as much as a house or very expensive car.
the best gun makers don't go in for that kind of advertising really. for the most part it's still word of mouth.
As a fixed carry handle irons connoisseur who owns a decked out ALICE rig, I vouch for this.
its been determined (who by IDK) that tan/FDE is universally good in almost all environments.
Consider that the majority of animals are some shade of tan or brown.
It does work well pretty much everywhere, same with Multicam. But it's also a bit boring when everything comes out in desert tan. Well, wasn't that much different when all guns were blued I guess.
I wonder how Ian feels about them finnish rifles with forward assists.
I would imagine his attitude towards them has changed over the years. People change opinions based on new information (at least smart people do). There's probably a reason why basically every military/LE AR-15 out there has a FA. Even if it's not that useful, it doesn't really have negative effect being there.
Consider that most animals are some type of color blind.
Militaries have snow camouflage. When it comes to weapons, just use white paint and white tape:
This meme needs to die, its Reddit-tier pop-science simplification. While it's true that humans have uniquely good color perception, the majority of animals (and most predator species!) are still able to perceive most colors.
As the primary camouflage color they stick out like sore thumbs in those environments, "universal" camouflage patterns are an awful idea. More to the point of the original post, making the weapon in FDE instead of black is pointless because rattle-canning your weapon to fit the current AO takes minutes.
If you look at the crisp photos taken by professional photographers, maybe?
Deer can see blue alot better than humans. tying blue tape/string on a tree branch near a well traveled animal track can work as bait.
In and of itself? None. I just think black makes more sense as a "neutral" color for a weapon.
I like to think of it more as shadows & highlights, rather than tints/colors; black makes silhouettes & shapes highly visible in bright or daylight environments. Plus it's harder to lighten darks, rather than darken lights (and keep it that way).
