Mega Rad Gun Thread

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Also I hope my word holds something but there's a rumor/urban myth Mosins were sighted in with the bayonet out.. mine shoots better as such. Plus the bayonet on an M44 is attached to the gun.

Not a myth, some general back when it was Imperial Russia, decided it took as much time to fix a bayonet as it did to load and fire five rounds. Therefore bayonets were expected to be on anytime combat was likely and the rifles were sighted with that in mind.

Is this the type of rifle you bring when you are going on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney?

Why would you ever go hunting with cheney!?

TIL that Ron Cohen is an IDF veteran, despite being American born.

From what I understand, if you emigrate to Israel, you have to serve in the military for a period of time.

When the US Army selected the Krag-Jorgensen rifle in the 1800's one of its selling points was that the laborious reloading process would prevent soldiers from 'wasting' ammunition on such foolish things like staying alive.

And the ironic part is we switch right over to a Mauser action because of how fast it was to load!

(bizarre the U.S. has been lagging far behind in cheap drones)

Everything the US military procures has to be over engineered. The switchblade drone has existed, and been in use since 2012. It is neither cheap (initial program was 10 million), or easily used (requiring compressed air to launch). Its like the sigger rifle, the AR-10 exists, fires an already accepted round, and could be easily mass produced by several existing companies. So of course the Army had to do it the hard way.

The M7 is once again the Army having a bias for a theater of operation it no longer has to deal with just like the ACU camo of the 2000s. There is also no retrofitting of rifles, not like you can make them all 5.56 NATO. If the Army gives up on them, they have to reorder a bunch of new rifles which means a new trial, not like they send them back to Sig Sauer for updating like the F-4s did with McDonnell-Douglas.

I own an M95M, which is a converse of a Austro-Hungarian M95 to fire 8mm Mauser. This was done by the Yugoslavians during the run up to world war 2. If a bunch of balken slav niggers can figure out how to swap barrels and covert en bloc to stripper clip; than someone in America can figure out how to swap .277 barrels for .308.

That said, I'm of the more conspiracy oriented mindset that after Afghanistan, the Army went ahead with the NGSW program not because of Russian and Chinese threats but a homegrown one. Think about it, which country has wide access to quality body armor without a reputation of constantly cutting corners and any reasonable person can own it?

Completely agree. Russia is in the middle of a massive war, and they still haven't figured out how to mass issue good body armor, (or they simply don't care).

 

[Historical Strelkov]

So of course the Army had to do it the hard way.

The technological advantage that came with a high price tag is no longer applicable, so the suppliers need to take that on the chin or get fucked. It's time for maximizing efficiency, and achieving what they've been putting off for years. The electronics warfare advantage isn't the be all, end all. The Sig M18 is a perfect example. An M9 beretta and its issued holster works perfectly fine. The M18 doesn't. Somehow all of that tooling up and boondoggling didn't result in a product that gave us a clear advantage, and this is proven by the Russo-Ukraine war.

Pubstomping Iran, or blowing up a ton of pagers is great, but it doesn't hold territory. If the mission set is to just dominate from the sky forever, then why bother with next gen man portable weapons systems? But if it does matter then these things have to actually be for real, and not just the FN-SCAR or XM7 being issued to one unit, and everyone else can go fuck themselves with a bent M240b.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

The hand fit line is such bullshit. Children can shoot full sized handguns fine. If you have more room for your support hand, it’s actually an advantage.

It's better to buy something you like so you're motivated to practice with it. He can buy a proper handcannon later when he's hooked on huffing the fumes at the range.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Or why the system is fragile. Or why 11Bs aren't trained in marksmanship..

The sight regularly fails on the M7 and displays a Red screen of Death on the reticle.

11bs and the like are NOT trained on marksmanship beyond "this is the sight, this is how it works, let's try it out a bit every so often"

They just aren't. The ammo budget isn't there, the training isn't setup for it, and everyone that isn't in Infantry is getting even less training.

Trigger control, breathe control, and the like either aren't covered or are covered in a very cursory manner.

Which is why expecting every like infantryman to get hits at 400+ yards with a rifle that weighs 12+lbs firing that's essentially a .300 Win mag or a .270 Weatherby Mag from a 13 inch barrel was and remains fucking retarded.

https://open.substack.com/pub/duncanlmcculloch/p/the-us-armys-next-generation-squad?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=17wh90

Enjoy. This guy was in both the Army and the Marines. The sight also emits an IR aiming laser and that is visible to anyone with any night vision system made in the last few decades.

Well, the discussion was about modern military situations, my man. I agree with you, I just think you might have misunderstood the context of why people were saying that the 1911 was obsolete. I definitely think that the 1911 and 45 ACP have a place in any civilian, police, militia, security, or rebel armory. I just don't think they are a good fit for a modern military that has long standardized around 9mm, and increased capacity for all firearms

Yep. A pistol the size of a 1911 maxing out at 8-9 shots is ridiculous in 2025.

A similarly sized 9mm double stack is 16-19 shots these days, and a 9mm compact is 15 shots.

Also, polymer frames are so cheap and easy to make vs steel or aluminum isn't not even funny. Even with steel reinforcements they cheaper than dirt.

USSOCOM gets to use essentially whatever small arms that strikes their fancy, so some SOF guys getting Gucci hand fitted and tested 1911s or 2011s makes perfect sense. They also have retarded budgets for guns and shoot more in a year than some guys in the regular Army/Marines shoot in their entire service contracts.

 

[Taser Confetti]

A similarly sized 9mm double stack is 16-19 shots these days, and a 9mm compact is 15 shots.

Calling a G19 "compact" is copium at it's finest. The G19 is a duty sized firearm that some people opt to carry after making wardrobe modifications.

Pocket rockets like the P365 (lol you're gonna die) and Hellcat are absolute dogshit to shoot and 90 plus percent of their owners will never put more than 50-100rds through them.

 

[Boney]

Dawg, you are confusing a raw recruit with a dude who's actually put in time and done proper exercises.

Feels fuckint bizarre defending Army marksmanship coming from the crayon munching side but honestly our dudes, and most of NATO aren't conscript tier retards.

 

[Good Goyim]

The M1A is not made by HS Produkt.
The XD, Echelon, Hellcat, VHS, and Kuna are.
You're complaining about the US factory in Illinois if you think the m1a rifles suck.
HS doesn't outsource their parts like SIG does.

Even then not all of these are winners. Hellcats are mid and XDs are dogshit. Echelons are solid though.

 

[AGPinochet]

So much for even illiterate dirt farmers can keep them running meme.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1m8mrb7/cambodian_soldiers_engage_thai_forces_along_the/

That's a Type 81

Oh it gets even better:

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Colt just filed a patent on a new striker fired pistol. It looks like a P-10C. The CZ overlords must of greenlit a P-10C knockoff.

This is said to be a leaked image of at least a prototype version of that pistol from either SHOT 2024 or 2025


DeLisle in 8.6 Blackout


Strategic Sciences Suppressors in use with Canadian SF. These things are really ugly, but if they look like that there has to be a reason.



Ex Keltec Engineer Tobias Obermeit is making progress on his .22 belt fed


Anti Drone DP-27


Phoenix Arms .22 with custom suppressor



.450 SBR with underbarrel turkshit on a Lockhart Tactical mount


BAR that I think was modified to work as a Zepplin gun


Painted RPL-20's




GunCAD dev S3 has some new creations
First a 2 piece set up that turns an M249S into an open bolt MG


And a Trip design to allow Sig Saar MCX/MPX to work with Super Safeties


Data on Plan B manufacturers and their products





Australian Automatic Arms "Tasmanian Devil". Looks like an AR-18 someone put a forward charging handle on. No idea if short stroke or long stroke


Say what you want about GBRS and their morals (or lack there of) but this video is bordering on pornographic

I continue to be amazed by the eccentricities of Suppressor gas dynamics. I recently learned that one of the more popular AK suppressors on thenmarket, the Resilient Putnik, vents directly from the blast chamber into a void between the internal core and external wall that is open to the atmosphere with no baffles to speak of, despite this it still functions as a suppressor

 

[PFM]

11bs and the like are NOT trained on marksmanship beyond "this is the sight, this is how it works, let's try it out a bit every so often

Unless something has changed in the last 20 years (it definitely could have) this is horse shit

 

[Biggest Bubba]

Good news, finally got the mystery bubba'd mosin out to the range and it fucking worked perfectly. 100 rounds no problems. Had people asking me WTF it was lol and even let a few shoot it. Sends massive fire balls out the front like all good m44s should.

 

[Boney]

Unless something has changed in the last 20 years (it definitely could have) this is horse shit

It is in fact horse shit.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

Even then not all of these are winners. Hellcats are mid and XDs are dogshit. Echelons are solid though.

My experience with my XD compared to a Glock 19 has been it has a slightly different trigger and the finish isn't as impressive. But everything else about it is fine. I can shoot my Glock and XD with the same accuracy, so unless it falls apart sometime soon or something it was a steal for less than 400 bucks (before all the tax bs). And that is the original model, not the revision. I can't speak on the hellcat.

I don't think the military of Croatia would use HS Produkt weapons if they weren't any good. From what I've heard the glock just edges it out with malfunctions and part longevity at 18k rounds or something, whatever the stress test was.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

It's better to buy something you like so you're motivated to practice with it. He can buy a proper handcannon later when he's hooked on huffing the fumes at the range.

Problem with that theory is when you hate shooting your pocket rocket, it may just make you not want to shoot.

Calling a G19 "compact" is copium at its finest. The G19 is a duty sized firearm that some people opt to carry after making wardrobe modifications.

Pocket rockets like the P365 (lol you're gonna die) and Hellcat are absolute dogshit to shoot and 90 plus percent of their owners will never put more than 50-100rds through them.

The G19 is a very size efficient design, and very easy to conceal. I don’t need to “dress around the gun” with a 19.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Problem with that theory is when you hate shooting your pocket rocket, it may just make you not want to shoot.

The only way a grown man dislikes shooting a gun is if he's not wearing hearing protection and he's being laughed at. A Glock 43 is fine when it comes to recoil.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

It is in fact horse shit.

@PFM

Ah so that's why the Army wants a $12,000 sight to make Joe's shoot better instead of giving them more ammunition to train with and why every single Army infantryman has a Marksman badge at the minimum and why every Marine qualifies as Expert on a flat range with range indicators

Top tier marksmanship training right there.

Average Joes are not getting hits past 300 meters reliably

"let’s examine the US Army’s fairly recent rifle qualification test. With human torso-sized pop-up targets positioned 25 to 300 meters away from the shooter, inside the maximum point-blank range of 5.56, range estimation wasn’t a factor. And yet, how well did the Army’s Soldiers score? Generally, not well."

https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Marksmanship/ARM_FY21-2.pdf

This document is from 2021 and it's the US army Admitting that their marksmanship training is on decline.

"Let’s examine the US Marine Corps’ fairly recent rifle qualification. Firing at known distances of 200, 300, and 500 yards, the shooters benefited from range flags hanging everywhere, allowing the use of formulas like these to solve wind speed and direction. Despite external ballistics barely being a factor, qualifying as a Marksman was difficult, let alone Expert"

"Those were flat ranges, shooters weren’t exhausted or stressed, targets were easy to find, fully exposed, weren’t moving, and weren’t shooting back either. And yet reliable hits were difficult to achieve inside 300 meters, let alone 600 meters. Meaning, that despite the laser-like trajectory of the heavy-recoiling 6.8x51 cartridge and the features of the Fire Control Optic, despite its hefty price tag, NGSW is not going to buy more hits, because the NGSW program has no real answers to aid the fundamentals of marksmanship."

Oh and remember, M7 is only for 101st Airborne or better tier units. They need that $12,000 sight you see.

Meanwhile USSOCOM is fine with URGI, piston driven rifles with barrels up to 16 inches in 5.56mm and then they need to go further it's a DMR in 6.5mm CM or a dedicated sniper rifle in the same or .300 win mag or .338 LM

Or a machine gun.

 

[PFM]

The G19 is a very size efficient design, and very easy to conceal. I don’t need to “dress around the gun” with a 19.

If I'm wearing a form fitted shirt there is definitely some printing, but I've learned to stop giving too much of a shit, even at work.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

The idea of a handgun being obsolete is funny, because its quite clear that its parts and materials that go obsolete.
Is the 1911 considered obsolete? or is it single stack magazines?
Is the 1911 considered obsolete? or is it polymer frames saving 10-20 ounces.
Is the 1911 considered obsolete? or is it hammer fired mechanisms?

Good enough to still be around in the 41st millennium as a stub gun

 

[S.C.U.D.]

I thought the Desert Eagle was the official pistol of Kiwi Farms.
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He did mention concealability, which could be a tiny problem I guess.

Not a problem at all actually.


Not my pictures by the way, got these off /k/ ages ago.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

If I'm wearing a form fitted shirt there is definitely some printing, but I've learned to stop giving too much of a shit, even at work.

Not a problem at all actually.

With dark/patterned clothing and no fidgeting you can carry something big. Like I said before, people who don't know won't know and people who do know don't care.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

The only way a grown man dislikes shooting a gun is if he's not wearing hearing protection and he's being laughed at. A Glock 43 is fine when it comes to recoil.

I dislike shooting small pistols. If you offered me free ammo but I had to shoot it through a 43 I would pass.