Oh I sold my C308 a long time ago for a loss when I got tired of fighting it and finally learned to research my firearms purchases. It annoyed me to see it sitting next to all my nice firearms that actually worked in my safe so it went to another pawn shop for the next poor sap to learn their lesson on.
8.6 Blackout is dead. When Hornady submitted to SAAMI it got kicked back because of the twist rate of 1:3. It’s so sharp there is concern that it will cause traditional cup and core bullets to come apart when leaving the muzzle. When combined with a suppressor you are asking for a baffle strike. Hornady was the original submitting member and they withdrew the submission last year. If Q wants to resubmit it they will need to find another voting member to partner with. In the mean time Hornady has gotten 338 ARC approved which has roughly the same bullet weights and fits in an AR-15 platform.
I hear that.
) because according to the clerk: "all aks are inaccurate"
Holy shit, that's an amazing steal for an Arsenal. My WASR is still the only thing I have from my early days of gun buying, mainly because I can't bring myself to sell the first rifle I ever bought, but also because it's still chugging along despite never being cleaned/maintained nearly as much as anything else in my safe. I was really saddened to see how much they go for now, a little over 3x what I paid for mine.I hear that.
Pawn shops are goldmines though if you know what to look for. I found a basically new Arsenal at one for the price of a WASR (back when they were cheap
Still have my Vz58 for the same reason
I feel like both are just going to wither and die off. The tactitards already have .300 for a suppressed cartridge and hunters rarely use suppressors.
I come bearing videos and news, it works with at least some doublestack models. To ensure proper functioning, some models may require a "marvel cut", A " ramp on the bottom of the breechface that provides clearance dor the disconnector nub"
I've had an asshole opossum this year that killed one of my chickens, two skunks, and an armadillo that was tearing up my back field which was starting to fuck up my mower. The armadillo and skunks got shot with the SP5, I had to set out a trap for the opossum and he was executed with the makarov for costing me a chicken.
Hunting with suppressors is starting to gain more mainstream traction. The hog hunters especially love their suppressed guns. For subsonic ammo increasing bullet weight is the only way to increase energy as you are capped at 1100 fps.
These exist already, they just aren't in widespread use/production.
This is pretty much why. You'd have to send up a much larger drone to support the weapons systems you have on hand (not many people have .22lr mini guns or whatever floating around) and then when all that is said and done you have a severely inaccurate platform with a gun flying around. There's even footage of a stripped down AK on a very basic drone and they do a few dive bomb-esque strafing runs on some tree lines in the Ukraine. Needless to say a smaller drone with energetics is much much simpler and causes more casualties without even needing to be all that accurate.
If you're looking at a sniper drone a la the TIKAD and pretty much instant death then you'd probably want typical man stoppers. If you want a 300 round belt fed you're probably going to be looking at something akin to .22lr, it won't be pretty but you will be producing casualties (considering it doesn't jam etc). Internationally it's probably going to cause a stir though.
As you've mentioned this is a game of mass trade offs (if you want any real large ammo capacity on a small platform). Even a recoilless system or a metal storm is going to have issues with reloading it or reliable functionality. On the other hand the solution should be cheap enough that loss of a drone isn't a big deal.
yeah, they're always strapping a traditional rifle to an oversized drone, it just seems so poorly optimized for the task. Surely a custom build for this purpose could be more efficient, but I understand why there's no real funding/desire to develop this.
I was thinking on the smaller end and close range, ideally basic consumer drones. It's interesting that .22lr has much lower brass-by-mass than something like 5.56, maybe commercial loads would be fine after all.
Good on ya man. Hope you have fun shooting it, or keeping it, depending on your fancy.
The chinks have discovered the Taruas Judge. Lol.Chinese made revolver allegedly in .410
I mean you got rimfire rounds. A belt fed 22LR could do damage. It's still lethal, especially from above I'd reckon.
I don't see why. I've never seen anyone seriously attempt to minimize mass. I feel it's just uneconomical for the military and illegal for me, rather than being truly difficult to accomplish.
it's been done, and I think there are some drones that work, but I think one reason they aren't popular is drones are CHEAP so trying to make a small survivable one is just not a good value.
I think someone either made or was working on a 3d printed glock housing for a drone. I can't remember where I saw it but it looked like a sideways mounted glock in a box and i think they were having accuracy issues.
You will need a major leap in energy storage technology then - the battery is the single heaviest thing on a drone.
Just go full Half Life 2 and put on custom stainless steel props and fly them into your neighbors face or the back of their legs.