Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "SCAR-17: Nyet, Rifle is Fine." video.

@randomusername5242 That is just wrong. Balance should be where your hands are, because it means less cantilevered mass floating around. Two rifles with the same mass will have equal recoil energy/impulse, but the rifle with more mass towards the front will require more torque from your controlling hands to recover. Which typically means it will try to flip itself out of your control more noticeably. It's like handling weights. If you squat to grab kettlebells and keep them close to your torso, you can pull them up easily. If you try to extend your arms away from your torso to lift them, the exact same weight will be too difficult to handle.
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@andreivaldez2929 To be fair, the reciprocating charging handle was a requirement. It just happened that the end users weren't thrilled and FN kinda put it on an awkward place.
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@andreivaldez2929 To be fair, the reciprocating charging handle was a requirement. It just happened that the end users weren't thrilled and FN kinda put it on an awkward place.
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@randomusername5242 Okay dude, sorry for using an analogy. Weapons should be balanced rather than unbalanced. Even sword smiths knew this centuries ago.
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The AK was designed according to guidance that the right hand would charge the weapon like in a bolt action rifle. You weren't meant to reach under or over, that's a modern handling technique that addresses the preference to keep the firing hand on the weapon at all times.
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@randomusername5242 Forward of the hilt is also roughly near the center. There's also the practice of half swording where it's actually safe to hold the blade forward of the hilt to help maneuver the blade. So no matter what, the sword is still easy to raise above you so that you can do the downward slice. The recoil typically forces the weapon in the direction where it meets less resistance due to how the human torso is covered. Since there's a peak in the shoulders where the front side and the back side meet, the back has a slight curve towards the front while the pectoral region has a ramp-like surface. If you hang yourself upside down and shoot a rifle, the recoil won't push the weapon up. Same with pistols, the recoil points up because of hands holding the grip beneath both the bore axis and the slide travel. If you hold a pistol upside down and fire with the pinky finger, recoil will make the barrel point down rather than up. There's no physical mechanism that causes a rifle to recoil other than straight back, the upwards recoil is a function of biomechanics. And rifles like the AR mitigated this effect by keeping the recoil in line with the shoulder rather than have the weapon recoil in line with the face and cause a stronger pitch up moment. By making the weapon lighter at the front, you get better control. Weighing it down at the front only makes the weapon harder to handle without addressing the fact that recoil is still going into the shoulder, and your own shoulder is causing the weapon to pitch up, and now you have to control more weight up front. Changing your grip and stance can minimize this pitch up moment and focus the recoil to come at you straight back without adding any weight.
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@andreivaldez2929 What's replacing it?
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Norincos are known for having good receivers. People who build National Match M14s swear by them. 9-Hole Reviews got Norinco parts to build his M21 clone if I remember correctly.
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50 Shades of FDE. I never got a final answer on that but the running theory is that they never comitted to matching the different polymer formulas and aluminum anodizing because it's too difficult, even though old marketing photos show the SCARs with consistent colors. If you look it up you'll probably find photos where they're all "light sand" colored instead of brown, gold and tan.
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But many militaries operate in the arctic and have reliability requirements to handle the arctic conditions, plus proper procedures to avoid condensation.
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@kansaspartan7625 Dry ice is just a way to achieve the same results faster. The Alaska police rifles were supposedly tested in the realistic manner, which required leaving them to freeze overnight. A government organization can do that by comissioning that test, a youtuber has to do it himself.
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The AR charging handle is in a great place. It stays out of the way when not needed, which is 99% of the time.
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