Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Garand Thumb" channel.

  1. The 5.7x28 was the round of choice for Stargate Command, so it's clearly a highly capable and lethal round.
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  2. no test is complete without a 20in barrel to compare to. it's literally the benchmark standard.
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  3. 90% of all Hi-Point sales: people buying them to test them thinking, "it can't really be That bad, right?"
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  4. I worked with the Brits in Afghanistan. Good guys, very professional soldiers. I HATED the L85A1 with a passion. We were showing each other our stuff and nobody wanted the heavy and clumsy L85. It was fun to handle one, but everyone was keen to get their M4 back (and we tricked out our M4 rifles to the max too).
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  5.  @mattmarzula  blame your lack of accuracy. stop making excuses. Sgt Benavidez took multiple rounds from an AK-47 and still never went down. There are plenty more stories from numerous wars since WW2 of vets taking multiple hits from 30cal weapons and still fighting on and surviving. the ONLY thing that counts is shot placement. You failed to hit anything vital, stop making excuses.
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  6. Politicians: "Assault Weapon!!!!!" Citizens: "Hi-point?" Politicians: "Hi-Points are exempt, you can have those."
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  7.  @ltchap8424  16 is the standard now for whom? not the military. the .223 was designed for the 20in barrel, so it will forever be the standard.
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  8. M16A4 with irons only was what my unit had in Ramadi Iraq 2006. Love that weapon. Something to be said for a fixed stock and longer barrel, long sight radius, etc.
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  9. It's useful, if done right, following actual tactics, missions, objectives, and with everyone playing by the rules. With the intent of building teamwork, practicing specific maneuvers, or rehearsing a mission (like a large sandbox walkthrough). But if you're just playing randomly with random other people, maybe not so much. It just all depends upon how you're using it, who you're doing it with, why you're doing it, and what you're hoping to achieve. Good exercise, good fun otherwise.
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  10.  @Jordan-nc3zy  "It’s all fun and games with a 20” until you want to run a suppressor, get into a car, or walk through a doorway" We did it for years in combat with iron sights. Adapt and overcome, stop making excuses.
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  11. because that's what it is
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  12. the average grunt will Not be able to handle it so well. GT is a very experienced shooter, with lots of practice and training, far above and beyond what a typical soldier will ever get in a full career.
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  13. that was my first thought. simpler just works. My unit ran M16A4 with iron sights only in Iraq too. I don't mind the longer barrels.
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  14.  @ronaldmcreagann6343  proving my point, this will never replace the .50, it will replace the M240. Personally, I'd take the Ohio Ordnance Reaper over this thing, but not to replace the M2, I'd still have the M2 as well.
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  15.  @shaggydestroyerofworlds2208  Marines know to stick with what works. UH-1 AH-1 M16 M2 etc. But really it partially comes down to budget, and the Marine's desire to be "special" and different. We don't call them Crayon Eaters for nothing.
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  16.  @kevinc.cucumber3697  he pulled the trigger, and he's the Producer and responsible for safety. He's responsible, even if they find him not criminally responsible.
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  17. So many ignorant people commenting in this thread. If you mounted this 338 into an airplane, helicopters, tank, etc. in place of an M2, you've given up serious firepower. People are so dumb.
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  18.  @Almirante1741  the weight of the M1 Abram's main gun is too big for one infantryman to carry too, so what?
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  19. I only own 16in and 20in barrels. We ran M16A4 in Iraq, no optics, irons only, in 2006. Worked fine. Later ran M4s with our choice of optic (trijicon, M2, Eotech) on the next deployment. I have no need to go shorter. I like the accuracy and velocity.
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  20. Stargate Command used it on full auto against aliens and Replicators with great success.
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  21.  @flank84  I have no clue what you're talking about. We ran a few missions supporting the SEALs, never had an issue with them. We had hiccups, as happens in war, but overall our deployment was ridiculously successful, and my unit came away from it highly decorated. There were a few units that caused us some trouble at times, but nothing major. Some units were slow to learn/adapt, but this is to be expected. Can't think of anything the SEALs did to cause us grief.
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  22.  @fieldy-8008  I also learned some point shooting techniques from a guy I served with who was a prison guard. They had a method for drawing and shooting in very close quarters, relied heavily on point shooting in order to also focus on pistol retention. not letting the prisoners get your pistol from you, keeping it close, keeping it out of reach of them, even when they are right on top of you.
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  23. Rule of 3s 3 hours without shelter (to include clothing, hat, gloves, etc. as well as something like a tarp/poncho) 3 days without water 3 weeks without food in teh short term, go light on food, ditch the cooking gear, know that you might be hungry and lose a few pounds, but overall you're going to survive easily without food, or very limited amount of ready to eat food, in a 3-5day pack. Instead of food, focus on water, including collection and filtering, and on dressing for the environment (from the cold of night, to warmth of day, to dealing with rain and wind and snow). keep it simple, keep it minimal.
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  24.  @roberthsieh8639  vast majority of gun stores sell .223 ammo, as well as 5.56. but the 14.5 was included in the study, so no issue there. 20in wasn't, that's where the problem lies. if the 18in is better, then it needs to be included as well to prove it. 77gr? is that the bullet weight they tested in this video?
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  25. 2A: "a well [trained] militia, being necessary to the security of a free state..." Training is critical to maintaining the US militia (US citizens). Not just for tyrannical gov, but for preparation for future conflicts.
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  26. it's only not an SBR or pistol if you have a permanent feature extending the barrel length the 16in. if you have to have 16in anyways, might as well may it useful length.
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  27. Right? this thing a toy compared to the M2.
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  28.  @MetalMachine95  1911 is still popular, but easily replaced. Not many options on the market that shoot a .50cal better than an M2. Many have tried, all have failed.
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  29. Point shooting can be very effective for close range. Paul Harrel recently did a video where he demonstrated various point shooting accuracies, and you can do awfully well. Something more people should practice. Some times things happen so fast in combat you don't have time to get a sight picture.
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  30. Hey, you forgot the BAR (in addition to the 1911, M2 and Hi Power). Arguably the best in its class in the world in WW1. Too good for the battlefield in fact.
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  31. AR platform is more reliable, simpler to maintain, accurate, lighter, etc. AR platform is PROVEN to be better when dirty. how many AK-47 rounds did it take to stop Sgt. Benavidez? not nearly enough, he kept going. Shot placement and accuracy matters more than size. I'll prefer the M4 in combat any day (and I spent 2yrs in combat). Also, the Russians switched to the AK-74.
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  32.  @NANA-lq5md Yes, but so does everyone else too, to b honest. USAF still uses the U-2, F-117, B-52, F-15, F-16, A-10, F-5/T-38, C-130, C-5, etc. Look at the E-2 and C-2 for the USN. F-4 was only recently retired. Look how long the F-8, T-33, F4U, P-51, C-47, A-1D, A-26, Mig21, Mig17, and A-4s lasted in service around the world. Tu-95? Look how long the MG42 family has been in service (not to mention its M60 descendant). 1911? M113, CH-47 and OH-6 for the US Army? CH-53 for the USMC? 2.5ton and 5ton trucks, Jeep, Humvee?
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  33. still a clumsy heavy brick. I never want to handle one ever again.
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  34. my 2 favorite pistol grips are still the M16A2 grip, and the magpul. I've tried many other grips over the years and I keep going back to those. I have a particular grip i use with the A2 grip that is somewhat unique to me, but I do it because it's comfortable and it works, and I didn't even realize I was gripping it that way for the first few years.
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  35. Agreed, this weapon is a toy by comparison and not capable of replacing the M2.
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  36.  @flank84  they sound like a bunch of MeToo women. Always waiting 20+yrs to whine about it. When someone becomes successful, worthless individuals come out of teh woodwork to tear them down out of jealousy. In a rare few instances they are telling the truth, but then why wait so long? If they knew something all this time, why didn't they say something sooner?
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  37.  @fignewtoneater  woodland still works really well in much of the US and similar terrain.
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  38. While I dislike the M5 for anything other than designated marksman or mission specific applications, I love this new machine gun.
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  39. Unconventional warfare is basics, thus never goes away. Most of what is happening in Ukraine the US military anticipated or was already doing decades agao. Just not on this scale since the US has the best airpower in the world, bar none.
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  40. convergent evolution, until a level of tech is reached, after which any further gains are marginal at best, to not practical. the AR-15 thus far is about as perfect a rifle as there is overall. there is room for improvement, but only very minor (like more ergonomically optimized and located ambidextrous controls). It's just nearly impossible to achieve a significant improvement over the M4A1 as there isn't enough left to improve, that couldn't be applied to the M4A1 itself (like a different barrel/chamber).
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  41. older music is far better than this new crap. I grew up on 60-90s music and love it. New movies are all gimmicks and action. older movies were better stories, better characters, more emotion, better pacing, more subtle, made you think, etc.
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  42.  @ElkaPME  exactly. but the point is, teh US will never fight the same way we see in Ukraine. But people are shocked to know teh US anticipated everything happening in Ukraine. We used 4 different types of small drones in OIF/OEF, as well as multiple robots, and T-MAXX RC suicide cars in my platoon. Switchblade UAV was invented during OIF/OEF. US has used suicide drones in combat since WW2 (TDR-1). The pentagon anticipated a return to trench and underground warfare years ago and published a report on it. I also tried telling guys trench warfare wasn't dead nearly 20yrs ago, and they all thought I was crazy. I spent a LOT of time studying WW1/WW2 trench warfare, as well as fortifications and more. I have an entire library of books perfect for the war in Ukraine, that I studied religiously 20yrs ago while I was fighting in OIF/OEF. I also studied Vietnam booby traps, and we did mines and such as combat engineers too. Nothing these guys are describing is earth shattering nor unanticipated by US personnel and the Pentagon. We just employ our systems differently since we wouldn't fight like we're seeing in Ukraine, we don't get bogged down teh same way. But make no mistake, we have been developing the sort of fighting techniques used in Ukraine for decades. We found ways to improvise things in OIF/OEF and prior wars too. Drone spotted artillery has been done by the US longer than I've ben alive in many wars. I've been shelled in combat, but our counter battery fire was so good they couldn't sustain fire unless they wanted to die. We also developed lasers and other point defense weapons in OIF/OEF to counter RPGs, Artillery and Mortar rounds midflight. Many of the counter drone weapons you see in Ukraine were developed by the US, UK, Israel years before Russia invaded, showing that we anticipated this.
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  43. the BDU uniforms were more durable material and stitching and just look good. Wood love to see a modern BDU uniform with some adjustments to it such as some of the pocket changes.
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  44.  @croweater1836  Gotta leave 1% for the first time gun buyer that had no idea what they bought and just grabbed the only thing left on the shelves.
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  45.  @bigmikelongwood3276  Well, maybe because they're smart enough to not own any.
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  46. 2A: "a well [trained] militia, being necessary to the security of a free state..." Training is critical to maintaining the US militia (US citizens). Not just for tyrannical gov, but for preparation for future conflicts.
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  47. even handgun rounds stopped by armor can break ribs.
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  48.  @Jordan-nc3zy  you missed your own point. the 20in barrel can and does work in urban environments, and in/out of vehicles. Sometimes in an urban environment it's the superior choice even over short barrels. and you wont be using your personal rifle anytime soon in real world vehicle/urban ops. do you see Ukrainians getting their prime choice of rifle/optics?
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  49.  @marcogenovesi8570  " tons of rifles that are either old designs or marketed as 223 instead of 5.56 although can shoot the latter fine." clearly you don't know much about guns. and there are tons of 20in rifles out there, making a comeback in popularity recently even. but keep twisting stories to fit your narrative....
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  50.  @eastwood4006  "With modern ammunition I think 18" is the longest optimal barrel length if you're pushing for distance with common semi-auto 556 loads... 50 years ago maybe 20" was better. I'm not a gunsmith/ammunition expert, but it's what I've heard from people who are. " and you may be right. but that's just it, without 18 and 20 inch barrels for comparison, we can't be sure. but I highly doubt the 18in is better than 20in. It's simple physics really. the real question is, is the extra few inches worth the performance increase? And that really is a personal choice. if you're competing for accuracy at long range and nothing else, you absolutely want the longer barrel. But with more data, people could make more informed decisions as to which barrel length they deem right for them and their application.
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