Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Snipers Before Infantry: the Danish m/66 Sniper" video.

  1. LOL. We managed to have the M1 in service with the air force guards and some navy divisions, the G3 in service with the artillery and the C7 (M16) in service with the infantry... at the same time.
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  2. For a few years we had three service rifles: The M1 for the air force and navy, the M75 for the artillery and the M95 for infantry. Glorious mess. The artillery only had 50 BMG, so we couldn't share ammo with our support weapons. The infantry used both 7.62 and 50BMG for support weapons but couldn't share it because they used 5.56 in the rifles. But this was during the era where the USSR had just gone tits up, and we weren't sure if we'd actually need anything but a small professional army, so everyone was scratching their heads and going "Well, while the shit on Balkan is going on we better not do anything too rash..." and then Russia invaded Chechnya (again) in 1999, Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, so we ended up constantly keeping the conscript model (and sort out the service rifle mess).
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  3. The same thing happened with the G3/M75: The armoured artillery used them long after the infantry got the C7/M95.
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  4. The loud part will be the bang. But that is kind of unavoidable with firearms, isn't it?
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  5.  @3746463 You can do it a whole heck of a lot less noisy (I didn't say quiet) by not giving it "the KH slap". Especially if you press the receiver tightly against your leg of stomach while following it back and forth. You just did the classic internet dumbfuck "If we can't get a perfect solution, why bother with any solution at all?"-argument.
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  6. LOL. Ian managed to mention every service rifle I've ever shot: The M1 Garant, HK G3, Diemaco C7 and Sako TRG-42. I still VASTLY prefer the G3 as a combat rifle. The length of pull is an absolute plus in my book. No, it's not ideal for urban CQC (get an MP5 ffs!), but it makes it a very stable platform to lay down accurate single shot fire from, even in wonky half-contorted body positions. That said, the TRG-42 (and TRG-42 A1) will always be pure sex.
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