Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Garand Thumb" channel.

  1. I suggest doing a new one of these where you do the ballistic visors. The clear bulletproof glass that attaches to helmets. Unlike the face masks, they're a distance away from your face. So the real question isn't backface deformation, but instead penetration and shrapnel.
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  2. Even better, there's something to be said for something which, even when you've shot that much through it, can be fixed for probably about $200 ($120 for the barrel without a sale from PSA, plus a new bolt carrier which can be bought for $50). Which means you're still ahead on price and have comparable performance.
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  3. ​ @EC-mc7vg Exactly. In real terms, there's so much you could do with this that the price calculations honestly make this a no brainer. Even then, I think it's very much a case of 90% of the capability, for 10% of the price. At which point, I struggle to see the purpose of the more expensive rifle.
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  4. ​​​​​ @EC-mc7vg Honestly, with this, I'd maybe just upgrade the bolt and barrel, and I'd still be ahead on price allowing me to do exactly that for less than half of the price. Or, just eat the cost, and every once in a while make a $200 purchase worth of replacement parts and just eat the cost, because it'd take me almost 100k rounds to break even on price (in the best case scenario for the expensive rifle). At which point, I'd like to see what didn't need to be replaced on the more expensive rifle.
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  5. As another point of contention, there was effectively no maintenance on this rifle. Yet it ran fine. With the barrel especially only having massive copper build up from never being cleaned. At which point, it's just a torture test, and would benefit from just basic maintenance.
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  6. Yeah from everything else I've seen, it's mid-tier quality for bare bones cost.
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  7.  @clamum9648  Nah I'm only here to comment that the project largely failed because they were so loud and weren't really good enough to justify their expense.
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  8. Yeah realistically it seems that the military is trying to stay away from urban combat. It's easily the fighting with the highest casualties that are for the most part unavoidable because it's so easy to entrench. So you just want to overall avoid it.
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  9. Even more interesting to me, is how you can probably just upgrade the the barrel and BCG for less than $500 once you've gotten that experience, and by the time you've hit $2500, you're now shooting with the best of them. So for almost none of the cost you're in a better position than like 80% of shooters.
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  10. ​​ @brandonschwietzer8757 Another comment noted that they never cleaned it. That barrel was never even cleaned, so basic maintenance would have this gun lasting maybe even 5x longer, though I can see that being a stretch.
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  11.  @christopherchan6505  Range. Realistically the effectiveness of 5.56 starts to dissipate after 300m and after 600m it becomes basically useless. This thing is to go to 800m and still put down targets. Frankly when it comes to jungle fighting... well that weapon has filled the arsenal.
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  12. Yeah I did the math and you'd need almost 100k rounds to break even on cost just occasionally replacing the bolt and barrel
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  13. 90% of the utility, 10% of the price.
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  14. Exactly. Even more interesting, imagine if it was cleaned of that extensive copper build-up. Probably would be.
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  15.  @FirearmsAndFitness  No. They wouldn't. Even for your true GTW rifles, you can convert it to that. It's something they very much overlook and almost refuse to touch on. Because at that point, it's almost objectively a superior rifle.
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  16.  @Cluelessdad-hj3uu  I don't think they have to. I believe that rifle is already adopted and continues to be modernized to this day.
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  17. Even then, they didn't clean it. At the very end it's almost like they tried to save it and justify the more expensive stuff, which, at worst, can be upgraded to for cheap.
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  18. Form an army. Equip them with Galils and PKMs as base equipment. Congrats you're probably one of the most effective combat units on the battlefield with as much ammo as you can ask for.
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  19. Also only $120 from PSA lmao. In fact, just for the sake of doing it, I took the best case scenario in favor of the $3500, in order to match it in price, simply replacing the bolt and barrel, you'd have to put almost 100k rounds through that gun.
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  20. I looked because I was watching this with my stepfather as I recently bought one. Replacement barrel is $120 without any sale.
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  21. It's what I plan to do.
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  22. The name of the rifle is the MK1 EBR. It is enhanced
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  23. The MG338 is meant to replace the M240B. M250 of course meant to replace M249
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  24. ​@BIasterXD Yeah I'm not sure how they got $400 either. Though on sale you'll get that rifle he's holding for $500.
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  25. A replacement barrel is only $120 from PSA too. If you really want to, you can also buy just a chrome lined barrel and replace it. You've spent maybe $1000 at most and it'll now live beyond almost anything and genuinely be "just as good"
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  26. ​ @brockstrong451  They need it so they can train
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  27. I want to see the effect of that slug on armor
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  28. My first thoughts too
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  29. Unironically you'd get a Paretto distribution but instead of 80-20, 90-10.
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  30. ​ @SkipperTyrrel  same he looks way bigger than before
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  31. 14 lbs
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