Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Oh, how wonderful! A 240B and a Five-seveN fell in love and had the most adorable baby.
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  2. "Heavy is good. Heavy is sign of reliability. And if it does not shoot, you can always hit him with it." - Boris
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  3. Well, that settles it. I'm gold plating my issue M4. And to think I laughed at all the gold Warsaw Pact weapons we confiscated. Little did we know that was Heat Proofing worthy of a NASA reentry vehicle
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  4. HAHA, that may be the cutest thing I've ever heard
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  5. Look on the bright side, the kids today absolutely DETEST the M320 that replaced it. So you got to live in the Noob Tube salad days
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  6. The People's Muzzle Blast has no time for your bourgeoisie comforts
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  7. Rule #1 of getting development money from the crusty old Generals at AMC: Make it look like some sci fi shit that they saw in 60's comics, and they will fork over millions for you to develop it. They really need to stop letting old officers who haven't held their own weapon in decades decide what grunts should have to work with. edit And don't forget to add the words Joint, Integrated, Force Multiplier, Warrior, Enhanced, or Lightweight (for an M88 Hercules) to the name, and you're in like sin.
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  8. Browning: What are you qualifications? Williams: When I was just a baby, my momma told me Son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno. Just. to. watch. him. die. Browning: Welcome to the team. Williams: Since they freed me from that prison, if that gunsmith job was mine, I bet I'd make a pretty sweet little carbine design. Browning: nervous laughter Eheh, Ok, that's...that's nice to know man. You can stop now. Just be here Monday at 7.
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  9. He's That Guy you run into at the range who comes up to your lane, apropos of nothing, and tries to regale you and your friends with rando gun trivia knowledge. And it's always something common knowledge, but he presents it like some secret lore that you couldn't have possibly heard about. And then you spend desperate minutes trying to get him to take the hint that he's being wierd and should probably piss off so you can shoot in peace. He's That Guy. And we've all had to put up with That Guy.
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  10. I feel like nothing in the firearms world today has actually been fancy since before WW2. Cheap & fast to make (yet with a high MSRP) seems to be all that matters other than tacticool peripherals and sci-fi inspired milling, which is nothing compared to the clockwork steampunk brilliance to be found a whole century ago.
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  11. When your 1st SGT wants you to police all your brass off the range, but it's already in your helmet
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  12. I bought a pair of Adidos at a bazaar in the Green Zone in '04. It was the brand with 4 stripes.
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  13. "I ain't got time to bleed." "You got time to duck?"
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  14.  @borismuller86  Top Hat II: The Toppening
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  15. That's just good recycling, right there. Waste not, want not.
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  16. No one is going to mention the field expedient 6-pack storage cylinder? Rly? I don't believe for 1 second that none of you didn't hide tall boys in your M239/257 smoke dischargers at NTC or 29 Stumps.
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  17. It puts the Cal in Technical
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  18. Just for the sake of being pedantic, this is legitimately not Small Arms. "Gun", "Ordnance" or "Cannon" is used at 20mm and above in official NATO military jargon, and this is 24 mike mike. Even Ma Deuce is Small Arms.
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  19. We didn't use the hanger method for the tissue box bandolier belts because, inevitably, the damn cardboard would be half turned into damp mush about 4 minutes after you reach the field or the ambient humidity was anything more moist than a dry-roasted Kuwaiti afternoon.
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  20. My Cylon descendents will love the way it looks next to their phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range
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  21. THE Ukraine. Accept no substitutes. You wanna invite more Russian bootlegs? UsKraine? YourKraine? RusKraine? The Donetsk People's Kraine? Look for the seal of authenticity wherever Kraines are sold.
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  22. I cried at the wedding and threw unlinked rounds as they went down the aisle
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  23. If anyone was posted at Ft Polk around '03....you might have spotted the gun cover on the display howitzer by the post commander's house: a purple floral sheet. I dunno if it's still a thing, but it always turned heads on post back then.
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  24. I shall not be satisfied that this weapon is worthy until it is chambered in .45 ACP, can make 1 pot of coffee per minute, and has defeated an ACR, SCAR, M107, and a Mosin in the Pugil Stick Pit without scuffing the logo.
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  25. It's proof that Ze Germans had first contact with Aliens. Area 51 is really just a big G11 stockpile. And why we can't let the hippies in there.
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  26. That's no sidearm. That's an 1883 Navy breech loading cannon with a pistol grip and a 57mm Bofors feeder.
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  27. I keep hoping he will find an MG131 But that unicorn be damn near extinct
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  28.  @erikcrouch7881  It's your absolute, basic, bare bones 12 guage. Let's just say the quality fairly reflects it's retail price. And like most things that come out of the arms room, it had been thoroughly abused as a duty weapon. The daily chores of disassembling and cleaning it after having slung over your IBA in the dusty work environment of a Sandbox deployment was.....not pleasant. It really makes you start to appreciate the simplicity standards built into Military arms design vs Civilian/LE firearms where KISS isn't a driving philosophy.
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  29.  @RedXlV  You must be new here. We ignore our problems until we adopt a new, pricier, no-bid contract one.
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  30.  @mattmarzula  POWERED armor is functionally fantasy for now, not for technical reasons but for practicality ones. Range, cost, and deployability. What would allow for many of the benefits (increased load bearing capability for packs, weapons & ammo loads, ballistic/blast/incendiary/CBRN & environmental protection) as well as added mobility is not powered at all. *Torsion powered* Coil springs at joints and elastic posture-return tendons over long skeleton axis in full body frames. A full body spring-tensioned orthopedic frame ready to hang armor, gear, and load. All the way from down by the ankles of boots up to a semi-gimbaled neck ring for heavy helmet and night-vision systems. Simply put, it does the bulk of standing & upright lift/return for you. It eats the force of gravity while loading up the stored force, allowing you to effectively pump-track run or maintain posture effortlessly. There's no power required but gravity and the mass of the soldier and his burden to apply load-up to the spring and bungee system, waiting to be quite literally bounced back for returned momentum. And it would protect and absorb during impacts from things like a 5 point landing, overextention of the normal range of human motion, falls, rolled ankles, vehicle roll overs and impacts. Dumb, basic mechanical clockwork that alleviates what the human body struggles to support. And it would be a helluva lot cheaper and more practical in the field to replace a polymer-coated, thin metal thigh frame and a couple coil springs and bungee cords that don't get tired than pricey, short-ranged electric servos and batteries. And it wouldn't even be remotely as heavy. Take a good look at things like Motorcross knee & neck braces, and picture them full body with sprung architecture
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  31. Departmento Munitorum approved, but Army Materiel Command denied. Never underestimate the ability of H&K to be at the center of any armaments trials drama.
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  32. It's a good day to die. Because in the grim darkness of the semi far fascist future, they strapped a 12 gauge instead of a grenade launcher to the front of your explosive-tipped bullet launcher. Scoreboard - Colonial Marines: 1, Mobile Infantry: 0
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  33. In '03, our company in Iraq were issued a dozen pistol grip Mossbergs. They were specifically to blow door locks off for cordon and search gigs, not for combat purposes. Guys still managed to injure themselves with errant pellets, including an impressive dickshot that required surgery because he wasn't wearing his issue CockGuard panel on his IBA. By '10, we came back and found the same pistol grip hawgzlegz, but in MRAP turrets with riot ammo. For blasting looters off of convoy vehicles.
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  34. How to confuse privates on range cleanup detail: when there magically ain't no brass anywhere in sight to be policed up
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  35.  @0neDoomedSpaceMarine  And we're still using an Air Force Gun to this day... Goddamn disgraceful. But we got revenge: They still have A-10's. Knock. Knock.
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  36. The nomenclature is derived from the great Czech-Shinobi war of 1968. Ninjas hiding in the rafters were a serious problem. Countermeasures were needed.
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  37. Hell, I wish someone would just rejigger the .22 Spitfire to tip it with common M855 green tips for PDW use. Marry of a common case and bullet that could be cost effective enough to actually see production.
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  38. T-800: Sarah Connuh? Wrong Sarah: Yes? T-800: Could you open wider please? Cannot fit laser sight through door...
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  39. I would go 5 mikes higher. That's literally what it sounds like inside your CVC helmet & the gun trunnion when you're firing the M242 in a Brad or LAV, plus a "ka-chung" as the electric drive cycles after firing. Probably the same amount of smoke in your face too, before the fan evacuates it
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  40. Knurled for his pleasure
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  41.  @Wildcat425B  Dick Cheney's friends
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  42.  @T_bone  Actually we've had fielding teams coming and going for years now, overseeing the issue of the M26 MASS (that's the funky magazine fed underbarrel shotgun). It's getting to be as common in unit MTOE's as M320 40 mike mikes. In '04, I myself was issued and toted around a POS Mossberg 88 in country for cordon and search entry duties...i.e. I blew the locks off doors. And we gunners were issued riot ammo as well.
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  43. "When the Japanese charged, why did you shoot the man with the sword first? Did you realize that meant he was the commanding officer?" "No, you silly SOB. He was running at me with a goddamn SWORD " - Sgt Bob Shaftoe, Neil Stephenson's '99 novel Cryptonomicon
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  44. Jesus cracks whip: "I am the Light and the Way. You're welcome." Me: "Bruh, I was about to close on a 3.2% refi. I'm upside-down and in divorce mediation."
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  45. Deadliest thing on the battlefield is a grid coordinate No matter what you ride, your position data in enemy hands means your ass
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  46. It's that rare left-hand-fire only MG
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  47. legally not classified as a "firearm"? Ba-zing!
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  48. There's no story I love more than legends about some beancounter O-7 deciding to cut magazine sizes down to 'reduce ammunition consumption'. Which is a good way to reduce personnel costs, because once combat is over, you will definitely have fewer personnel left.
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  49.  @andrewschulze3865  The real question is: Does the Chieftan fit in the briefcase, and can he adjust the track tension?
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  50. Meanwhile, at Lock Picking Surgeon: "A click out of one, two is binding, nothing on three....We're gonna try this stent that Bosnian Bill and I made."
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  51. Nice
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  52. I think he's secretly Destro, supplying Cobra with all their dakka dakka The hair is just a clever cover
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  53. God, I wish we could get more Tokarev platforms, and a modernized domestic production source for a variety of Tok flavored rounds. Not a glock guy, but would adore a nice, long barrel, ported 17L in 7.62x25 as a sibliing to my FiveSeven. Love them zippy bottleneck rounds.
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  54.  @dndboy13  Natasha Approved.
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  55. Just to be that guy, regarding the agreed-upon Canon of 40k Cannons (disregarding retcon conflicts): Imperium-wide Heavy Bolter (all eras): .998 caliber (25mm) Astartes Godwyn Pattern Bolter/Bolt Rifle: .75 caliber (19mm) and short Pistol cartridge Heresy Era Phobos Pattern Bolters: .70 caliber (17.8mm) and short Pistol cartridge Munitorum & Underhive Bolters Bolt Pistols for the Normies: Typically around .50 caliber (12.7mm)
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  56. When you need exactly 0.0185 seconds of suppression in a 40 round package, SIG has you covered.
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  57. So you're not refered to as a Luxemburger?? I apologize for my many decades of cultural effrontery. Now to make up for it I shall sing you the song of your people in solidarity. Turnup Tun's eponymous FCK LXB, naturally.
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  58. That's an awfully tight channel for an ejection tube, though. There's only one way to be sure it's not TOO tight: WHEELBARROW FULL OF MUD TEST
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  59. AWP and Deagle is OP
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  60.  @matutinojoaquinable  Yes, but it sounds fancier. Eau du toilette. Toilet water. For your face. The French can make anything sound fancy, the Germans can make anything sound evil, the Italians can make anything sound like an emergency, and the British can make anything sound adorable.
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  61. Legends say Ian won't be finished with Forgotten Weapons until he reviews Sticks and Stones Mk 1, also up for auction
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  62. Assault musket.
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  63. This fires about 300 Munitorum Issue Mk III (Leman Russ Pattern) Boulders per minute if you propitiate the machine spirits appropriately.
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  64.  @lifesunset  ORLY? Like at the Battle of Khasham two years ago? How'd that end again?
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  65. Better than being the people having a sudden emotional event on the business end of it
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  66. At least when Ian humblebrags, there's some actual humble to it
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  67. As a counterpoint for Americans, not a single grenadier in any of my platoons has preferred the m320 to the old m302 on their service rifles. Weight, bulk, the amount of shit it gets caught up on when mounting and dismounting, worse simplicity, and most importantly the trigger pull of the H&K M320 sucks balls. Being accurate with your 40 mike mike is an art, and that longer stiffer pull spoils shots.
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  68.  @anteshell  You know, you have a really negative outlook. And would make a poor engineer. How do you think 60 ton tanks support themselves on their road wheels? And who said anything about 300 kg??? We're not talking Mechs here, besides 600 lbs (including the 200 pound 11b meatball) would not be feasible anyways with a pair of size 11 boots exerting that kind of ground pressure in the wild. Movement is a question of load distribution and support/force redirection. But hey, sit there and be a negative nancy who never does anything.
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  69. That's a good way to get fined 300 eye crud
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  70. If I load Dum Dum rounds into mah Smart Gun, will it become a Meritocracy?
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  71. But I would take 7.62 Tok over 9mm Para every day for military use, and twice on sundays
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  72. I was actually going to commission a real, no BS tradional-made Shinken (Katana) for $6500 back in '03, but dress the tang as a US cavalry saber and make it a family/service heirloom to be passed down. My choice was that or a motorcycle. I cheesed out and got the motorcycle. I kinda wish I had just commissioned the sword, it would have broken down a lot less than the Sportster and saved me more in the long term. And if you're going to kill yourself with it, at least you'll go with more style.
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  73. Trashcannon for Space Marines
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  74. When your weapon gets smokey, switch to a nice Islay. Don't have the budget for Octomore, so some Ardbeg or Laphroeg will have to do.
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  75. I love my Adams Arms AR short stroke pew pew :) I was iffy about the weight in front at first, but it turned out to feel nicely balanced when firing and is SOOO much easier to clean. My concerns over copper fouling turned out to be mythical and went away after sending enough break in rounds downrange.
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  76. Michigan National Guard circa 1862: SPRINGFIELD '61 FEELZ LIKE GIRLY GUN, NEEDZ MOAR RECOIL J.P. Lindsay: I got you, fam
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  77.  @Clean97GTI  This is also why if you pocket some Wal-Mart .223 to sneak onto the qualifying range, you're not going to get UCMJ'd because you were trying to cheat on your score: It's because there have been incidents of negligent discharges on ranges when the tower says to go ahead and chamber that have been attributed to non authorized ammo. And Lo did the Lord sayeth unto you, Behold! Another Safety Briefing is born.
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  78. Still less depressing than a Polish gun named "Cancer" If my named ended in "ski", I feel like it wouldn't be out of character to name my guns taxes, premature balding, and erectile dysfunction
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  79. Makes the PPS-43 look like a Rube Goldberg masterpiece.
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  80. "I guess you could say that this cab was rare, but naw, forget it. YO HOMES, TO STALINGRAD!"
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  81. I fully expected to see steam come out of the rod cylinder when he pulled the charging handle I mean, let's be honest: A boiler powered Steam Gatling fed by a recoil-jostled Agitator Hopper would be pretty dope Picture the assistant gunners running around everywhere shoveling coal and buckets of loose ammo into that beast
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  82. Front towards enemy. This page left intentionally blank. Lean against rock...or something. They really should remove the markings on SAPI plates that say "strike face". Too many TBI injuries have resulted from following the instructions.
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  83. "Significantly short" Not words you wanna hear on a Pro Pipe range
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  84. "I could give you my word as a Spaniard?" "No good. Known too many Spaniards."
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  85. Nein. Diese sounds completely freunlich to mein ears, ja.
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  86.  @Hysteria98  "Literally"
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  87. It's the Jeff Goldblum rule: You just need good lighting
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  88. "M107? Never heard of her"
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  89. Let's be honest...you play alot of BF1.
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  90. Wouldn't have looked as good in a Death Wish movie
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  91. A masterpiece of functional re-engineering and quality control
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  92. I've seen sketchier cheek weld positions. I'm kidding. That's bloody terrifying.
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  93. 85mm of cringy brochure pitch and 1 shot worth waiting for
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  94. When your TC makes you carry your guage on your dogtag chain, and PCI's you every day to make sure you got it on you, then you know your boss had a bad headspace experience that nearly took his hand off
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  95. Downvoted for giving me TBI. And it was muted.
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  96. Pistol-Grip pump on my lap at all times... Pistol-Grip pump on my lap at all times... Pistol-Grip pump on my lap at all times... They can be f*ckin' wit other ni**as sh*t, but they can't be f*ckin' wit mine!
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  97. I also love it when a plan comes together
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  98. The only thing stopping the 7.62 Tok from a revival as the great battlefield handgun cartridge bridging the gap between 5.7x28 and .357 SIG is: the lack of a good handgun to drive demand for it. Generous barrel length to convert all that boom to velocity, double stack, etc etc
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  99. Incoming fire overseas was more like a post-wide clock buzzer for when the DFAC was open. They knew our meal hours better than we did. Hear a couple booms or the C-RAM, start putting in IOTV, grab weapon, head to chow. Rinse, repeat. They probably just made everyone at Bragg on REFRAD feel hungry.
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  100. Magpul hands the ACR to Remington/Bushmaster on a silver platter, dutifully proceeds to completely whiff it. All of Eastern Europe: Fine, we'll get it right FOR you.
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  101. Each one sold came with a free mason jar of Jarate
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  102.  @ScottKenny1978  There's a term we had for spending money in LN (Local National) markets on local national forces. It's called FOO Money. You'd be surprised the wierd kind of shopping sprees and suppliers we had to dig up to keep the ICDC/ING's in bullets and parts.
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  103.  @Dimetropteryx  I personally blame this gun, ironically in the hands of a mustachioed Spetsnaz officer, for jacking up Charlie Sheen when he was at his most wholesome
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  104. It's also the same forest where we did PLDC/BNCOC FTX's and Land Nav. You know it's Lewis when your Land Nav course start point stares directly into the trunks of massive trees and a solid wall of underbrush. I too had to lump the Pig around in frosty Washington winters during the 90's. As a medic. The skinniest medic in the platoon. Section chiefs are sadists.
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  105. So would strapping my 52v eBike battery pod to this thing technically be considered wildcat loading?
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  106. 'If you're sure you want a grenade launcher on every rifle' Is that a trick question?
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  107. For when you want your last-ditch battlefield sidearm loaded in Anglo-Saxon Trebuchet
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  108. Ye Olde Dog Tag Rounds
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  109. Actually, a 1st CD M1 took a mobility hit to the main fuel tank (Sadr City I think?) because one a Mahdi Army insurgents had a PG-7VR loaded in the RPG-7 tube. It's a tandem charge, one to set off reactive armor, the next is the hot copper penetrator meant to achieve the kill. It's an absurd looking round when mounted.
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  110. Let's just put this one to rest with the official 1945 Army Training film ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCid6POCikk Spoiler alert: It's "Byne" not "Bean" per the DoD However, the Dictionary says fuck off, either pronunciation is fine: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbine
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  111. Here's a bizarre idea, and just hear me out: Go backwards in time for a caseless design. Instead of having fragile, formed rounds without a case, have a Propellant reservoir that automatically feeds single shot quanitities into the chamber after taking an entirely separated projectile with a stub of primer in it...think of an auto loading flint lock's powder horn, but rather automated and internalized to the action. Instead of a bolt, you get a revolver cylinder style trio of chambers spinning, like an unholy mutant love child of a Revolver and an M134 feed system. The top chamber aligned with the bolt is the "live" loaded cylinder position after the charge mates with the projectile and primer (in the back of the bullet maybe?) from the belt/magazine/feed tube/whatever, and goes Boom down the barrel. The "unlock/extract/eject" cycle happens when the cylinder spins down, then is "brushed" clean a quick acting plunger brush, which takes the place of an Ejection Port flip, etc. The "sear/feed/chamber" cycle happens on the next 3rd of the spin of the bolt/cylinder, where automated measures of propellant are aligned with a bullet/primer, and then rotated up to the firing position at the top of the rotating bolt's position. It's just a clock action, where the barrel fires at 12, the chamber (for lack of a better term) gets swabbed at 4, and the powder, primer, and projectile combine as a round at the 8 o'clock position. No reciprocation, just spin powered by short recoil or a damn Dremel motor if need be, and the whole thing stays sealed except for the muzzle, and no case is necessary.
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  112. And here I thought my Hi Power's hammer was specifically designed by sadists to eat my firing hand after each shot
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  113. Someone needs to get around the 5.7x28 pricing plague by either tipping .22 Spitfire casings with M855, which would be easy to mass produce, or modernizing 7.62x25 Tokarev
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  114.  @TheArklyte  Black library novels (a few authors conflict), 40k Lexicanum, 1d4chan, etc.
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  115. The rising prevalence of Polymer in receiver construction feels more apropos as generational benchmark, it sticks to the manufacturing methodology change, and also speaks to the ability of designers to do whacky things with Polymer that is harder to do in Metal in cost effective mass-production edit: And in keeping designs within reasonable weight expectations. Thick metal construction = heavy, thick polymer: not so much
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  116. As a side anecdote, when we would find caches hidden around Baghdad (they were very fond of using cemetery graves to keep mortars and RPGs buried), we invariably had to call for EOD. If they responded, you might be in for a treat: Dirty tricks. Instead of blowing in place or confiscating, we watched with great trepidation as a slick young EOD tech used a ball peen hammer and what looked for all the world like a chisel, to subtly crack the back of the round and then he put it right back into the cache, covered it back up convincingly, a then told us "I'm done, leave this cache alone. Whoever uses it is in for a bad day."
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  117. If it walks, rolls, floats, or flies: The Universal 40 Mike Mike will kill it somehow.
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  118. Game starts to glitch at 480p @ 4:57
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  119. Yeah, I have a hard time thinking of the metal cap pin keeper rivets in a polymer receiver being a major show stopper for production. Especially when compared to all the industrial elbow grease needed for milled receivers. That cost and tiny component/production addition to the process is downright negligible.
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  120. You weren't a real Grenadier on your fire team unless you busted the "fancy" sight on your carrying handle at least twice
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  121. Mk 19 is feeling veeeeeery inadequate right now....
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  122. The big 42mm Trijicon reflex is shockingly good with a 249. That humongo glass and the MOA size of the dot creates good effects on 400m area target bursts, and a good tripler combo. We proofed the range with a few belts and adored it above just about anything else we slapped on the feed cover, either from home or the arms room vault. Way more user friendly once you hold down that trigger than the M145, but lacking the drop comp
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  123. Made from 100% recycled Junior High School lunch trays
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  124. Meanwhile, In my brain: It's called the Nov.
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  125. SIG: We fat camped your 240 Boo. SIG: We also big dicked your SAW. Also SIG: But we kiiiiinda fat boy'd your M4. Genießen.
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  126. Pretty sure I crafted these for the Sniper in TF2
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  127. My old Platoon SGT in the US Army had a gig up until the 90's guarding nukes that traveled on passenger trains all around Europe, moving constantly to and fro. They wore civilian attire, trenchcoats, and packed freakin' M3 Grease Guns under them. They weren't some secret squirrels, just 11 Bang Bangs in the 1st ID handed one of those wierd, inexplicable Cold War era jobs that grew on trees back then, and issued wierd, inexplicably ancient service weapons.
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  128. My granddad's family on my stepdads side worked exotic animals for exhibits and hollywood since the 20's, including 1962's Jumbo the elephant and some of the animals used for Hatari. He worked with Wayne, hated his guts. Partly because of his sense of entitlement, but largely because George was a WW2 pacific theater vet who considered Wayne a service dodging punk who lived the high life by mooching glory from others who served.
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  129. 1919: Weapons engineered left and right that would give Rube Goldberg a migraine. "I say my good fellow, what a most capital firearm you have there. Would you have a spare monocle?" 2019: The only thing that seems to work when Ian filth tests a simple gas fed bullpup: the wheelbarrow. "60% of the time, it works every time" 2119: Invention of the M1A2 Combat Rock (Man Portable, Ground & Airborne, 2 Man Carry). "Mongo smash!" Military advancements in small arms proceeding exactly as predicted
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  130. Would love to see a UMP or SMG-45 rechambered for .30 Car.
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  131. If you don't like YouTube's rules, then get the f**k off of YouTube and stop cashing their checks. Their house, their rules. They don't owe anyone a living.
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  132. Shows up to confirm or deny the claimed properties of the Bullpup 9, causes huge wave of SIG sales instead Just for giggles, should have had Joel pop off a pair of 45 long colt & .410 from a Bond Arms Texas Defender after the Rohrbaugh just to be sadistic.
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  133. It looks like it was engineered by a half-Finn, half-Russian (hold your laughter) plumber with a fetish for right angles
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  134. Steampunk Street Sweeper
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  135. Nomenclature: "Rifle, Lightweight, Ground and Airborne, 10 Man Carry"
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  136. One handed trebuchet is impressive looking
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  137. Time for me to stockpile old hard drive magnets, before the Federation comes for my railguns.
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  138. If only you could put a Thompson drum on it....downside up
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  139. As a former SAW, Pig, and 240 macho man, this gets me erect
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  140. BY THE EMPRAH.
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  141. A salutory lesson that what's considered practical to manufacture for one economy is not the same as for another
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  142. Hmmm. Wasn't actually expecting to see this Unicorn here
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  143. Maschinengewehr 131, Please! Something awesome about a 37 lb 13mm German MG
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  144. .17 :)
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  145. My old PSG was still packing an M3A1 in the 90's with 1st ID. They carried it under trench coats in civilian attire when escorting nuclear munitions being railheaded between NATO destinations in Europe. On passenger trains, ffs. All Ninja-like. I didn't believe it until he showed me a polaroid of him flashing the damn thing under his coat, in freshly-GI-cleaned condition, with an armorers number on the receiver from the arms vault, while sipping a beer in the bar car. He bemoaned that the Army was too cheap to spring for MP5's for ordinary grunts.
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  146. Dear Ian, humbly requesting your voodoo overview of the Maschinengewehr 131 13mm HMG. Closest thing I ever saw to a German Ma Deuce
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  147. JARATE!!!!
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  148. Just as a matter of confirming my sense of manhood: I demand a buttstock, pistol grip, GPMG sling, burly bipod, and lube order that specifies some flavor of Beard Oil be employed as included Basic Issue Items
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  149. No rail support for a field-expedient Dish Network attachment? Hard pass.
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  150.  @ArcturusOTE  The 25 mike mike Bushmaster in my Brad or a Marine LAV-25 would definitely not agree with you. We get a handful of AP sabot & a much larger amount of HE ammo assigned to the ready box ammo allocation. By modern definition, you leave the Small Arms world behind when you cross the 20mm line, and enter Here Thar Be Cannons territory. According to the Little Yellow Book of NATO DODIC's, anyways. Which is about as authoratative a text to draw these distinctions as you could ask for.
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  151. You could shorten that list by detailing what it wouldn't do. A whole helluva lotta physics would be going down, and forensics teams would have to request a budget increase
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  152. "Hey, Julian! I made a gun for your buttstock!" - John
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  153. The Good Idea Fairy can typically be found hanging out with the Big Green Weenie
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  154. Imperial Commissars enforce morale with this ONE SIMPLE TRICK....
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  155. Rechamber in 5.7x28, win lottery to buy enough ammo for it, and enjoy.
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  156. It would be worth it to engineer a 350cc Yamaha-powered twin cylinder, liquid cooled, 2-stroke powered chain gun vomitting BOFORs 40 x365 R mike mike just for the AWESOME
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  157. The Betamax variant comes in .380 ACP
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  158. Another solid argument for potent muzzle brakes on German MGs MG42: JA! Mein recoil ist muchen. HK21: Unt holden mein Bier! MG131: Das ist cuten.
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  159. I would submit that alot of the reason you didn't see the 5.7x28 in PDW's/Pistols take off in NATO aresenals is because H&K threw their weight into the adoption process by NATO, because they wanted their 4.6x30 round adopted. Due to the deadlock Germany's sole objection caused, Belguim's 5.7 round was sidelined because the entire process was frustrated. In the end, it all came down to contracts and money, and everyone said "Fuck it, we'll just stick with 9mm because it's not worth the hassle". H&K has serious Kraut Clout, and don't like playing second fiddle to FN. Even US AMC (Army Materiel Command) had supported the 5.7, and some of our aviators are issued P90's for flight ops on such missions as international drug interdiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90
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  160. Dear Rock Island Arsenal: Want to trade one 2014 Tacoma (low miles, lightly used, only driven to church on freeway by an old lady on sundays) for Brit Scorpion FV101 or German Wiesel Mk20. Call me.
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  161. G3: Dakka fit for da' Boyz 51: Dakka fit for yer Grots
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  162. Oh I wanted the F2K rifle alright. I just didn't want to pay FN's SciFi tax again like I did for my actually-dirt-cheap-to-make-and-we-all-know-it Five-Seven
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  163.  @weasle2904  Where in the depths of a mutant samurai goats hairy arsehole did you get that I was fangirling over H&K and the MP5??? Can you even read?
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  164. When you need your Mosin to light your target on fire and make everyone else in the room deaf, but in Carry size
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  165. I do love that electronically fire managed (but still pressure operated) paintball markers are the reliable, competitive norm today when solely mechanical guns are the ones always broken down for troubleshooting on a table, but the Firearms market still obeys the "if it was good enough for my Pa, it's good enough for me" ethic. Push-button adjustable fire rate & gas management for suppressors/altitude adjust, anyone? No?
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  166. *marriage
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  167.  @seanmac1793  Were you there during WW Deuce? I got news for you, no one gets more CAB trigger time behind a crew serve these days than an 88M. That's a truck driver. The Logi Lines are always Target #1, and the MSR's are where they do their bloody business. For the record, we rack our weapons next to the cannon on the battery firing line.
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  168. My first car was a '76 VeeWee Rabbit. Speedo went up to 140 mph. That was a tad overly optimistic. Like the range adjustment sights on this rifle.
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  169. They say dogs look like their owners. Guns, clearly, look like their nations.
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  170.  @ScottKenny1978  The funniest part is watching your CO ask a bush-league back-alley arms dealer in the Adamiyah district of Baghdad for a paper receipt after buying a bunch of loose-and-questionable AK ammo to supply the Iraqi National Guard company you've been training. Because he doesn't take credit cards, your interpreter had to tell you where to find him, and the ING's are being evasive about why all their ordnance and ammo is disappearing. Literal black market logistics chain.
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  171. Watching this is arousing
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  172. LAUGHS IN HAVEL
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  173. Soldier 1: "Hey, Terry. LT left his weapon unattended by his rack again. Watch me get him investigated by CID." Soldier 2: "There's a Canuck crunchy over there just got in country, give it to him. They'll never track it down."
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  174. An ancient weapon platform so popular, we build whole new vehicles worth 100x as much just to tote it around, and 4 assholes to crew it
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  175. So you're saying the touchstone of so many French victories after 1919 wasn't Existentialism & Pernod? Je dis ça, je dis rien
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  176. Well, it didn't make me go play World of Tanks. But it did make me rewatch Girls und Panzer. Although I find the systemic misandry of Tankery very troubling.
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  177. Finn Cavalry: Really just Vikings in Volkswagens
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  178. Normie Gun: Back up gun. Mega Mag: Back up. Gun.
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  179. ".45 ACP" and "Target" are mutually exclusive terms Right up there with "Precision Trebuchet"
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  180. In Science News: SSK Discovers Anti Matter
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  181. That feed tray cover strugglin' to hold it in like a 4 year old after being told to hold still
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  182. I love how the first answer the I Am A Responsible, Law Abiding Gun Owner crowd keep parroting in the comments today is "Immediately be irresponsible and break the law by bootlegging it" And we wonder why the rest of the public think the 2A crowd is full of shit
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  183. "Soldiers will always be soldiers" Privates, Ian. Privates will always be Privates. looks at his Spec 4 Mafia making Field Ramen in the Coffee Pot Nevermind, carry on.
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  184. When Ivan wants to graduate from pole vaulting to dwarf tossing
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  185. Omni Consumer Products presents
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  186. There's so much about this that a little modernization and tweaking/rechambering could make into a relevant military PDW today. The machine gunner's best CQB friend.
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  187. "Join us next time on Forgotten Enlistments"
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  188. The problem with the final go/no go decision to contract purchase and field a new MG for the troops in the wild: It's never made by someone who will actually use it in the wild.
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  189. When your T&E mechanism makes a Model T look simple to operate
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  190. Do you want a SCAR or an AR? Yes.
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  191. I, myself, have picatinny rails with an EOTech on my shelf copy of the King James bible. I fail to see what would be so unusual about it.
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  192. Hasty fighting position: Where you plan on upgrading to the other guy's ground Maneuver: How to place a bid on the other guy's ground Sustained Suppressive fire: How to let the other guy know you're about to outbid him for his ground
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  193.  @jeffreyroot6300  Thank you. And a hearty Allahu Akbar to you as well, sir.
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  194.  @MagicSquid  Yeah, I didn't see they had already posted a shoot on the InRange page until a while after I saw this. After watching that one, I didn't see them try to fire it with the stupid forward eject port/dust cover doo-hicky popped off. It wouldn't appear to be dangerous or malfunction inducing to do so, it's only impeding the action rather than being integral to it. Probably would have solved most of their problems to just let the spent brass dribble out the side, so long as Ian wore long sleeves for when that hot case drops down on his elbow :P If that is the source of the majority of it's malfunctions due to a stoppage during the eject cycle, then pop that sonofabitch off, keeping the ejector level cover in place on the side you put your cheek weld
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  195. It's crazy to know that, technically, the damn thing is still in service in the form of the MG 3. Just rechambered for 7.62 NATO with modern materials and tooling. It's almost as commonly used as our 240 Bravo/FN MAG. Blew my mind when I thought I saw an MG 42 on a Turkish Cobra uparmored car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinmetall_MG_3
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  196. This is why people can't stand second hand smoke in public places. How much for a carton?
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  197. Is that even it's final form?
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  198. Makes a nice concealed carry piece, but can we see the full size version?
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  199. I appreciate that they didn't make the cog teeth flush and perfectly machined to the round guide rail holes. This allows the inenitable buildup of field environment gunk to slide around and get pushed out of the mechanism rather than instantly jam it up with a single grain of sand caught inside of intolerantly tight tolerances.
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  200. Ian in Tartan Drag looks like a certain Wallachian prince trying to infiltrate the Scots Guards
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  201. The Humble MG Link. The unsung hero responsible for so much of a platoon's firepower, and a curiously serious factor of national defense.
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  202. "I Am Metal" You couldn't ask for a better name for an arms brand
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  203. 38,000 years later...some Spess Mehreen is going to find this hidden in the back of the Chapter armoury, spend the extra points, and still think "By the Emprah, this is a Big Gun"
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  204.  @chrisd2051  That's what she said
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  205. Press Alt+F4 for cheat menu
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  206. Is it just me, or does that look like Serbu just zapped the guts of a PPS-43 with some sort of Enlarger Ray Beam
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  207. I'm almost sad it's not in 7.62 Tok
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