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TerminalTryHard said:
I've always liked the idea of a solar backups but I've also heard the solar backups don't work very well.
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Thanks for tickling that unpleasant memory. I've had a distrust of solar trickle-charging ever since, especially since they don't even seem to work on radios or flashlights.

Back around '01, the Army passed down an MWO for Solargizers to be installed on literally every vehicle on our books; and afterwards batteries started being drained dry. Every Monday for months, we'd have to go jump every vehicle in the motorpark not being driven regularly, until we were allowed to disconnect the solargizers.

Edit: IIRC, they were causing battery electrolyte to evaporate. Probably not an issue for sealed, dry cell batteries & quality optics, but still.
 
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Karl continues to make videos with legitimately bad people.
Yet another collab video with the “I’ll make a video laughing at Donald Trump for saying that the left would go after statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson” and then a week later they started defacing and trying to rip down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Dude is as much, or more of a clown than Karl is.
 

Sig Fanboys on suicide watch

Joking aside, i think videos like this and the one made by Kalashnikov Group show that it pays off diversifying your loadout.
nothing beats my 10.5" AR with adjustable gas system and A5 buffer kit when it comes to recoil management and ease of handling, but when the temperatures drop too much i'm not deluding myself into thinking it'll cycle reliably. Glad i scooped up a nice MKK-104 when i had the chance
 
TerminalTryHard said:
I've always liked the idea of a solar backups but I've also heard the solar backups don't work very well.
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The issue with solar panels is that cheap solar panels wear out very quickly, frankly I think that a decent fiber optic set up is better but there isn't anything wrong with a decently built solar panel, they've come quite a long ways in the past ten years or so.
Krinkler1984 said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LbjpIP5ShH0
Sig Fanboys on suicide watch

Joking aside, i think videos like this and the one made by Kalashnikov Group show that it pays off diversifying your loadout.
nothing beats my 10.5" AR with adjustable gas system and A5 buffer kit when it comes to recoil management and ease of handling, but when the temperatures drop too much i'm not deluding myself into thinking it'll cycle reliably. Glad i scooped up a nice MKK-104 when i had the chance
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Choice of lube also plays a big part, personally I'd look at industrial moly lubes such as Dow molykote 33 since that one is temperature rated and tested from -100F up to 400F, a lot of firearms specific lubricants just aren't tested for that kind of thing. Another tip that I'll give is to make sure you do everything within your power to cover up any moving part of the firearm and keep snow off of it, any sort of water-condensation, vapor, snow, you name it-that gets on your rifle becomes water and then turns back into ice, which then plays hell with your weapon until you get it to melt again. What I'd really like to see is GT do this test again but with as many identical rifles as he can scrounge up but each using a different lube.
 
TerminalTryHard said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gz0xuovGcQA@SinistralRifleman did you guys do any testing on the solar power feature itself?

I've always liked the idea of a solar backups but I've also heard the solar backups don't work very well.
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It works in direct sunlight, but if you’re under something or it’s overcast it won’t work.

I think the main thing the solar pannel does is extend battery life. I wouldn’t count on it alone to power the optic.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
The issue with solar panels is that cheap solar panels wear out very quickly, frankly I think that a decent fiber optic set up is better but there isn't anything wrong with a decently built solar panel, they've come quite a long ways in the past ten years or so.

Choice of lube also plays a big part, personally I'd look at industrial moly lubes such as Dow molykote 33 since that one is temperature rated and tested from -100F up to 400F, a lot of firearms specific lubricants just aren't tested for that kind of thing. Another tip that I'll give is to make sure you do everything within your power to cover up any moving part of the firearm and keep snow off of it, any sort of water-condensation, vapor, snow, you name it-that gets on your rifle becomes water and then turns back into ice, which then plays hell with your weapon until you get it to melt again. What I'd really like to see is GT do this test again but with as many identical rifles as he can scrounge up but each using a different lube.
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Different lubes or maybe different magazines as he did note magazines failing before some of the rifles. Maybe a comparison between the performance of polymer, steel and aluminum in extreme cold weather.
 
TerminalTryHard said:
Different lubes or maybe different magazines as he did note magazines failing before some of the rifles. Maybe a comparison between the performance of polymer, steel and aluminum in extreme cold weather.
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That would also be a very interesting test, although that's another one that I'd be more willing to chalk up to magazine handling rather than magazine material. It's really easy to get water into a magazine and a magazine isn't going to deice itself by getting hot the same way a rifle is capable of.
 
TerminalTryHard said:
I knew this was gonna be a good video just by all the seething KAC fanboys on FB.
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I snickered when the Sig failed, that was dampened a little when the KAC followed it. The test is evidence for why the AK platform is still relevant and why some of the features that allow ARs to be so 'high speed' like the mag catch and safety can hurt them in extreme circumstances. Makes a lot more sense to me now why some Alaskan PDs adopted AKs and why the Russians aren't holding on to it just because of economic concerns.

The common comeback(or cope) between everyone defending their favorite rifle is lubrication. But I don't think tailoring each one to best survive the test was the point of the video. It was a test of what would happen if you took the average well used rifle off the rack/armory and into harsh winter conditions, and it succeeded at that.
 
likeacrackado said:
The common comeback(or cope) between everyone defending their favorite rifle is lubrication. But I don't think tailoring each one to best survive the test was the point of the video. It was a test of what would happen if you took the average well used rifle off the rack/armory and into harsh winter conditions, and it succeeded at that.
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I wouldn't go so far as to call it a cope personally seeing as a bad lube or bad lube job can kneecap a rifle's reliability in any environment, but I think that people should realize that certain designs do work better in hostile environments than others. The AK is just a damned good cold weather rifle, but improper lubrication or handling can fuck up an AK too, it's just generally more permissive towards that sort of thing than the majority of other platforms.
 
likeacrackado said:
I snickered when the Sig failed, that was dampened a little when the KAC followed it. The test is evidence for why the AK platform is still relevant and why some of the features that allow ARs to be so 'high speed' like the mag catch and safety can hurt them in extreme circumstances. Makes a lot more sense to me now why some Alaskan PDs adopted AKs and why the Russians aren't holding on to it just because of economic concerns.

The common comeback(or cope) between everyone defending their favorite rifle is lubrication. But I don't think tailoring each one to best survive the test was the point of the video. It was a test of what would happen if you took the average well used rifle off the rack/armory and into harsh winter conditions, and it succeeded at that.
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Neither the AR or AK surprised me but I will say the AUG and the M14 surprised me for completely opposite reasons.
 
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@AGPinochet ninja'd you bud.
 
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I guess those ice bucket challenges didn't help ALS after all lol.

Joking aside, that's extremely unfortunate and I never would have guessed that ALS would be how he goes out. Despite people's opinions on him, he's not a bad guy. Hopefully the disease is slow and doesn't completely debilitate him.
 
TerminalTryHard said:
Neither the AR or AK surprised me but I will say the AUG and the M14 surprised me for completely opposite reasons.
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Someone pointed out that cold weather operability was a major priority for the AUG, hence the snow glove hand guard.

M14 just seems to be crap at everything.
 
Buttigieg2020 said:
Someone pointed out that cold weather operability was a major priority for the AUG, hence the snow glove hand guard.

M14 just seems to be crap at everything.
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in the original M14 trials the t44 (M14) outperformed the FAL in arctic conditions. The T48 (FAL) was not prepared to work in the cold. FN engineers tried to fix it on site but were unable. The M14's violent action broke and flung ice out of the action.

Other than that though the T44 and T48 were neck and neck (the AR10 crashed and burned) and in the end the T44 ended up being chosen because it weight less, had less parts, and was cheaper (turned out to be false), and was the DOD favorite to win(the biggest weight on the scale). The M14 was a good rifle for 1950 but in 1959 when it was adopted it was behind the curve.

and i think just dumping water on rifles to freeze and to expect to get a worth while test out of it is goofy.
 
It did get me wondering how a G3 would've done, I'm surprised there wasn't one there though it was already a ridiculous collection of guns for what he was doing,
 
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