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MrShekelstein36 said:
I still have nightmares about that round, as well as 8x56RM
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If it wasn't on a bipod, 14.5×114mm would be worse. Supposedly the Soviets and Chinese have used PTRD-41s standing. The closes US equivalent is the Triple Action Thunder (Single shot .50 BMG handgun)

It makes me laugh for folks who complain about 5.56 or 7.62. Do ya even lift?
 
♂CANAM productions♂ said:
This is like complaining about 5.56 bruising your shoulder from recoil for average joe so we should ban everything but 22lr. I had a gun bruise my shoulder once, but I just had major surgery on it 4 months before and it was 8×50mmR Mannlicher.
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Worst recoil on a rifle I've ever fired was .458 Lott. Friend of mine built it as a graduating project for gunsmith school. I'm man enough to say I never wanna fire a gun like that again.
 
MrShekelstein36 said:
I've heard various things about the safety of using them. Personally I don't trust them, but I have a buddy I shoot trap with who used one a few times. He says if ya use trap/skeet ammo its safe.
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I ended up getting 12 guage 9/16 inch light loads made for skeet shooting. Didn't want to use 12 g 3/4 inch shells from everything I read before. But its such a unique one I've never seen since.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Did you ever use the A4, any opinions on it?
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Dean Pentel said:
In boot. Clubby, did you feel a bit sad when you had to turn yours back in?
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74164978231 said:
Theres simply no point in a fixed stock and 20 inch barrel unless its a dmr/sniper rifle. Thing was a huge pita wearing body armor and getting in/out of vehicles.
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pretty much used on in basic combat training and a few rare occasions sometimes if my M4 wasn't appropriate (and later i had a fancier CAR-15 11.5" with a suppressor which brought up the OAL to around 15"). i used a SDMR (modified M16) before being issued a mk12 SPR. the A4 to me was a worse SDMR, but inside 800 meters were great for point targets and limited precision work or if you weren't mechanized or air assault. since the Army transitioned to almost all mechanized/motorized after 2006 (?) the 20" just doesn't make a lot of sense outside of a few dudes that need to reach out and touch at 1k+ and you'd have someone with 7.62 handle that anyway or just maneuver closer with support from a .50 or mk 19 or 240 or something. the USMC has a boner for the full length service rifles and they can drill heads with them, so if you're willing to put up with annoyance for movement, they're very capable weapons.

when i was in basic i had an M16A1E1 all up through AIT and could hit 1200 meter pie plates with it 40/40. i didn't mind the grip nub on the A2/A4, but i did prefer the A1 "nubless" grip in the same way i preferred the vinyl-coated aluminum stock on the M4 and XM4 before the fiberlite stock was common, it balanced out the carbine so it wasn't so front heavy.

personally i kinda think an optimized 18" barrel with 1/8.5 twist and rifle gas is where it's at but i can see why we don't use that for reliability's sake in adverse conditions.
WelperHelper99 said:
A3 (A2 but the handle detaches to show a rail)
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iirc in my experience, and A3 was an A2 with an A1's lower slapped on to keep the full-auto function. this was an Navy slap job because they wanted the modernized features of the A2 but not the burst limiter. the detachable carry handle started with the M4A1 and was carried into early A3's and all A4's, but officially an A3 was an A1 lower + A2 upper.
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note in the pic that's an A1 lower (squared off front push pin, wholly visible "line" and smaller radius at the rear where the stock is mounted that is beefed up on the A2. the grip will usually also be an A1 grip.
 
74164978231 said:
Theres simply no point in a fixed stock and 20 inch barrel unless its a dmr/sniper rifle
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Club Sandwich said:
if you're willing to put up with annoyance for movement, they're very capable weapons.
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Depends on activity but indoors with bayonet mounted keeping it close and tight at high ready/headshot prep I feel more comfortable with it than slicing the pie with a shouldered carbine. I have a past littered with head injuries, however, so do not take my advice.

MrShekelstein36 said:
I've heard various things about the safety of using them. Personally I don't trust them, but I have a buddy I shoot trap with who used one a few times. He says if ya use trap/skeet ammo its safe.
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wopirish said:
I ended up getting 12 guage 9/16 inch light loads made for skeet shooting. Didn't want to use 12 g 3/4 inch shells from everything I read before. But its such a unique one I've never seen since.
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The safety lug on the Mauser bolt is all that remains for locking and, while it was previously meant as an early warning for a loss of headspace in the original design, it's as substantial as the locking surface on a Mossberg 500 bolt. In a vacuum it would be fine but with the constant pressure of fuddlore being thrown around there's the innate worry hanging over you.
If it's any consolation, skeet loads are not exactly low pressure so if it survives that it's fine.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
If it's any consolation, skeet loads are not exactly low pressure so if it survives that it's fine.
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You aren't wrong. But when compared to #4-6 pheasant shot or high brass 2 3/4 it produces far less pressure. As for the fudd lore. I mean, it probably is, but as those guns get older and more worn. I'm not sure how much I would trust them.
 
MrShekelstein36 said:
You aren't wrong. But when compared to #4-6 pheasant shot or high brass 2 3/4 it produces far less pressure. As for the fudd lore. I mean, it probably is, but as those guns get older and more worn. I'm not sure how much I would trust them.
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People rechambered German Mausers to dumb, boutique safari calibers and the worst that happens is receiver stretching. You've got the safety lug as well as the bolt release keeping you from becoming the prettiest unicorn so I wouldn't worry too much.
 
Oh yeah I remember saying I'd put up some images of my newest requisition but couldn't get it to work on my phone and it felt kinda awkward to say I got Kimber Eclipse during several pages of slap old man yelling at clouds about 1911 makers and price points but yeah got my first kimber and it's in 10mm same as my ronin and it's a purdy lil gun that kimbercoat or whatever the fuck they call it that's also on the Aegis makes it have literally no resistance on the disconnect bump.
 
Martys_not_smarty said:
Oh yeah I remember saying I'd put up some images of my newest requisition but couldn't get it to work on my phone and it felt kinda awkward to say I got Kimber Eclipse during several pages of slap old man yelling at clouds about 1911 makers and price points but yeah got my first kimber and it's in 10mm same as my ronin and it's a purdy lil gun that kimbercoat or whatever the fuck they call it that's also on the Aegis makes it have literally no resistance on the disconnect bump.
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If you like it, fine, I'll spoiler my reaction.

Kimber is overpriced series 80 trash and 10mm is heresy, 1911s should be in 45.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
The Coonan .357 wasn't popular enough to make it non-heretical.
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Never been a big fan of revolver calibers in semi-autos and vice versa. For the latter moon clips completely negate the biggest benefit of a revolver's cylinder by adding something you have to pre-load to use the gun properly. The former never stacks right in the magazine because of the rimmed cartridges.
 
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