Because its not sold commercially. Only way to get it is from grey market sources or from mil dudes who where issued some but never fired it. Not too hard to find it in limited quantities at $1+ per round.
I figured the gray market is the only way to get it. Some guy I went to high school with joined the army and ended up deployed in Somalia. Some dude I knew called him at a party and among other things, he said he brought back a few mags full of AP ammo. God knows what other stuff falls off the back of a truck and into civilian hands.
It's not so much ignorance as accident that I'd worry about with 5.56/.223 getting interchanged. But I've gotta say, I haven't seen a modern production AR in .223...shit, I don't know if I've ever seen one. I typically only see modern rifles chambered for .223 if they're bolt guns.
Yeah same here. The only semi autos I've ever seen chambered in .223 only are old ass Mini 14's made when Bill Ruger was still alive and talking about how you don't neeeeed a 20 round mag.
Im sure theres some people that due to their positions/connections where able to acquire genuinely exotic things but 99% of people arent taking anything of note home.
It always makes me laugh when people say "the only people who should be allowed assault rifles and large capacity magazines are soldiers and police". Good luck keeping 30 round mags out of circulation because those are damn near impossible to keep track of.
this place used to have nose fuses for 16 inch/50 cal MK7 shells for sale.
surefire xc-a or TLR-7 on the used market. the emitter is replaceable and batteries are specialized, but you can buy them easily enough. both are water resistant to reasonable depth and exposure and at least the xc-a is very durable to drops and et c. skip the xc-1, it's not reliable imho. the TLR-7 is larger but uses a CR123A cell instead of a custom Lithium Polymer battery.
I've got a ton of spent casings with the biggest being a 105mm, but everyone who flew on gunships got one when they were separating or leaving the unit. You hit the nail on the head though, supply guys are your best friends if you want cool stuff to go home with. As long as it isn't on an equipment account or a repair cycle part then it's good to go as long as you don't make TOO much of that item disappear. We had a box full of USGI and gen 2 PMAGS in our armory that they never did inventory on which was really nice and I wish I still had access to.
TLR-7x s are under $150 at the moment. You can get the USB rechargeable CR123 if you don't want to feed it CR123s
Doesn’t the publicly available Benelli M4 have a lot of limitations? Like I know they gimped the tube magazine from Military/Police at 7+1 to Civilian 5+1.
Why not an A300?
It's that and parts non-availability in general, yes.
I gave it serious consideration, don't get me wrong. There's lots of quality of life improvements with the beveled loading port and foregrip attachment slots as well as extended tube from the factory, but I'm not as much a fan of the action extending into the stock or the single action bar, and the 1301 is also noticeably faster.
What exactly is the timeline for when public opinion on 5.56 began to change? I’ve been reading through that Soldier of Forture archive and they seem to take every opportunity to shit on it, and the same goes for 9mm (some retard unironically said he’d rather use .22). I’m around the part where the U.S. started replacing the 1911 and publishing ballistic studies on 9mm vs .45 and the coping and seething from the SoF boomers is off the charts.
As an aside, I found this interaction in the February 1980 issue:
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Some G*rman faggot (whose descendants are undoubtedly being raped by Arabs by now) whining about the magazine’s support of Rhodesia.
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SoF publishes it because the libtard doxed himself
The 1301, even in Mod 2 format, will absolutely go on discount at times.... Unlike the M4
from people i know that jumped on it for elk in idaho and the dakotas, it's also a very good moose and even bison round. drops a stag like a sack of bad news.
I mean it's a 180-200 grain 9mm going roughly 2200-2400 feet per second. That is going to go deep and hit hard.
