Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Gordon Ingram's Westarm .308 Battle Rifle" video.

  1. No firearm (any single sample) can be sold by an Italian manufacturer without having been tested by a public proof house. The rifles obviously worked and cycled without signs of overpressure even when proofloaded. They had not been tested for field use, that requires different tolerancies than for range use. That was something that the designer should have taken into account when designing the rifle. Not something that the manufacturer could adjust by arbitrarily changing the given specs.
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  2. No firearm (any single sample) can be sold by an Italian manufacturer without having been tested by a public proof house. The rifles obviously worked and cycled without signs of overpressure even when proofloaded. They had not been tested for field use, that requires different tolerancies than for range use. That was something that the designer should have taken into account when designing the rifle. Not something that the manufacturer could adjust by arbitrarily changing the given specs.
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  3. Google "C.O.M. Westarm" or "Westarm fucile" and you'll easily find several images of the sample n.33, fully developed with a civilian/hunting stock, a flash hider and a scope. It was on sale some year ago in Italy.
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  4. At that time the Somali government had good relations with Italy. It would have been surely possible.
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  5. Spring strenght has practically no impact on opening time.
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  6. Googling "C.O.M. Westarm" or "Westarm fucile" you can see several images of the sample n.33, that has a far nicer "civilian" stock and a flash hider.
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