Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Garand Thumb" channel.

  1. ​ @rednecksniper4715 95% of the duty positions in an Infantry Company won't be able to use this 14lb carbine. There are reasons why SF and Ranger Regiment aren't using it.
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  2.  @danielrobey1759  Within 150-200yds, M193 does quite well. It typically has a thin jacket and explodes with lead showering effects in tissue. It's very fast as well, even from 11.5" barrels.
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  3.  @bvshmaster6990  I miss LRSC. Best unit out of 7 others by far.
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  4. Large AAR studies post-WWII showed a big complaint in not enough ammo carried, ammo too heavy, rifles too heavy, too much recoil, harder for new shooters to learn fundamentals with, scaled into too heavy of a logistics footprint as well when talking about .30 Cal Rifle M2 ammo (.30-06). Army Ordnance tackled the problem and were asked to replace the following weapons with 2 weapons chambered in a single cartridge. .45 ACP M1 Thompson SMG M1 Carbine .30 Carbine M1 Garand .30 Cal Rifle BAR .30 Cal Rifle M1919 MG .30 Cal Rifle Their solution was: M14 7.62x51 M60 7.62x51 This failed miserably. As an armorer back in the 1970s or 1980s, you will recall the reliability issues we had with the M60. M14 was a non-starter due to soldier's load, which got heavier than the M1 Garand because of the added weight of the steel mags.
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  5.  @adamtudor8201  Of multiple minors and grannies, ages 15-51. 30 counts of sex crime charges.
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  6. I've built them for others, have seen many come through my DM Courses, but haven't seen a need or want to own one myself. Of all the different variants, I like the NSW Recce with 15.1" barrel and KAC FF Rifle RAS the best. Chamber in 6.5 Grendel, but then you can go down to a Mk.18 build and still out-perform any of the 5.56 barrel lengths.
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  7. ACOGs are more durable than iron sights.  I've seen a lot of front sight posts bent over, rear peep inserts lost, bent ARMS 41 protective ears, but no bent or broken ACOGs.  Eye relief still makes it so that I've never kept one that I've purchased.
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  8.  @richarddick2937  They're surrounded by existential threats, so they invest in aggressive technical intelligence collection, skim off the more advanced technologies, rapidly integrate them, then field them. Russia got butthurt when Israel chose US aerospace and defense technology after the French stopped sales. USSR was trying to sell them MiGs and other FMS packages in the 1960s, but they knew the US equipment was vastly superior, so Russia retaliated by training Palestinians to engage in terrorism. A lot of the friction points are hyped Russian disinformation to try to wedge between US-Israeli alliance, so you have to filter it.
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  9.  @richarddick2937  I'm likely ahead of you on this by 40 years. I've seen and read most of what there is on Kazars, USS Liberty, Israeli terrorist acts against the British when they were a protectorate, history of the Balfour Declaration, post- Great War borders, Arab-Israeli Wars, dangling the MiG-21 carrot to get the F-4E FMS, influence of US Policy via blackmail, subterfuge, espionage, etc. It pales in comparison to what the Brits have done, but very few people are informed on that. Either way, this isn't the place for it as I'm more focused on systems integration relative to the actual video.
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  10.  @richarddick2937  I'm not shilling for Israel.
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  11. ​ @hunterodst Keep in mind we're still evolving 5.56 mags since 1957. Problem with a 2.305" COL in a 2.395" magazine well raw internal length is you need to split that .090" 6 ways: 1. Back of well to back of mag 2. Back Mag wall thickness 3. Clearance from back inner wall to case head 4. Meplat clearance to front inner mag wall 5. Front mag wall thickness 6. Front mag wall to inside of front inner mag well You need to do that in production with no tolerance allowable. Good luck. I've been looking at trying to stuff maximum COL in AR-15 & AR-10 mag wells for over 20 years now, been reloading for over 30 years.
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  12.  @skepticalbadger  AR-15 is 66 years old. First ArmaLite AR-15 prototypes were made in 1957. Official USAF initial contract for AR-15s was May 1962. Those were Colt Model RO601 rifles. USAF has used the AR-15 for 61 years so far.
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  13. @@content_enjoyer4458 No modern assault rifle design has been made lighter with better ergonomics, and the same reliability and modularity. Most designs struggle to get lower than that 7lb threshold, whereas the original M4 was 6.4lbs.
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  14. Abdominal evisceration
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  15. Hollywood belongs in our rear-view mirror. That place is cursed.
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  16. SEAL Recce and JSOC Sniper carbines crush those for aesthetics and practicality, although some of the very early 723 & 727 Carbines were not as friendly for clipping-on NVDs in front of the day optic. Full-length 12 o'clock rails do really well in that role when you configure for night, as long as it isn't one of the rails with the dedicated PEQ-2 mount built-in (one of the several Mod 0 Variants).
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  17.  @caseyne  KAC was already supplying critical components for JSOC Recce Troop and Assaulter Carbines before the SPR was conceived. The KAC Rifle FF RAS and MRE were prominent on Recce Troop Carbines, for example. Armorers found the FF RAS and MRE much easier to deal with when changing barrels. JSOC guys shot out barrels within 2-4 weeks on average. It's why CAG stopped using stainless match barrels, because of how fast they shot them out.
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  18. I was surprised at how heavy it is-much heavier than a 16" AR with LW barrel.  Feels more like a heavy barreled AR15 that's bulkier and more awkward. Nothing beats AR15 selector location of all the service rifles I've been exposed to over the years.
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  19. Ryan, a FakeR is not an AR.  Very few companies even know what the TDP entails for building an AR that will make it through the Arctic tests that the Mil-Spec really addresses.  KAC exceeds the TDP by increasing bolt longevity, barrel quality, and tuning the gas system into a much more controllable system, even without muzzle brakes.  If you shoot a PSA next to a KAC, same barrel and gas system lengths, you'll feel the difference and see the difference on target immediately. I've seen this several times in guns that come through my courses, and there are clear gains with the KAC over most other FakeR-15 VISMODs.
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  20. I saw some guy's parts list breakdown for a Block II Mk.18. It was over $8000 with suppressor, RIS II, Elcan, LAM, etc.
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  21. There is far more testing and refinement in US small arms than the Russians will ever know or be capable of. The vast majority of what goes into a Mil-Std weapon is completely unknown to the civilian market. Same is true in Russia, but they don’t have access to employees with enough blood in their alcohol, and their facilities are rust buckets/run-down with very poor standards and conditions that would be shut down by OSHA in the US. Their ammunition variation is atrocious, as are their assembly methods and testing in production. QC/QA in Russia isn’t even a concept. The culture is totally different and not relatable to people in the US. It’s like stepping back in time into a forgotten, frozen residual parallel universe operating on all the mistakes of 1800s empires and early 1900s Bolsheviks, from which they can never recover. One of the most depressing things I’ve ever witnessed in my travels.
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  22.  @wolfenstien13  Not propaganda, but ground truth I've personally witnessed living there. All the clichés you hear are worse by a ridiculous factor.
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  23. @Nicholas Rodriguez In mountainous or open terrain where you have those shot opportunities, even if just suppressing, it's nice to be able to have predictable impacts at a minimum. M118LR is plenty capable of making predictable hits even at 1100+ with the right twist rate. I've had guys stack 175gr and 178gr match into sub-MOA groups at 1000yds from SR-25s in my courses. 1 MOA at 1000yds is 10.4". The SCAR-17s start opening up into a very large cone of dispersion after 800yds. The Brits in Basra were using their AI 7.62 Sniper Systems early in OIF and found that the enemy would just place themselves beyond that 800m range after several got popped with precision fire. They ended up retiring and replacing those rifles with .338 LM AIs largely because of that and experiences in Afghanistan, then going with LMT 7.62 DMRs in the line units for select personnel.
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  24. This would be sick threaded, suppressed, with a brace and Brushstroke Cerakote.
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  25. P90 has a recoiling barrel to help with keeping extraction delayed until chamber pressure has subsided.
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  26. WTILASP Wx Terrain ID Location Activity Probable COA
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  27. I spent many years from 2005-2016 doing a lot of multi-day high volume courses in Finland, often with mixed attendance of AKs, Rks, and ARs, the occasional FNC, a Bushmaster ACR, shorty AKs from Arsenal, and a franken-74. During winter conditions in either Arctic or sub-arctic locations, it was usually -25° to -30°C (-13°F to -22° F). Not once did I ever see any of the hundreds of weapons experience surface moisture freezing like that. We just never let the rifles get into that state. Not once did any of the controls freeze-up that I can recall on any of the designs. What did fail? Interestingly, there were more malfunctions with AK variants than ARs during firing. Mostly FTExtract followed by double feed. That was always with Russian garbage steel case ammo. The Finnish military brass-cased ammo is of a quality similar to German and Swiss ammo. I've never seen an Rk92 or Rk95 malfunction, but they were typically fed brass-cased Finnish ammo. The AKs that malf'd were usually Arsenal out of Bulgaria. Polymers broke, especially my early gen MIAD grip and the toe of an aftermarket M4 waffle stock. One of the most reliable configurations was 11.5" AR set up as close to a TDP build as possible. The Finns kept very detailed records over the years of what types of malfunctions they experienced. They said AKs were about as reliable as low quality imitation AR-15s, namely Bushampsters. Rk62, Rk92, and Rk95 had the highest reliability, followed by TDP-compliant AR-15s. Then AKs and Bushampster AR-15s.
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  28.  @Horsefingerandthetaintwrights  6.7x51 is vastly superior ballistically to 5.56.... until you run out of it because you can't carry enough of it.
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  29. No flechettes for NGSW.
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  30.  @autismawarenessford2community  Get a 6.5 Grendel AR-15 set-up and it’s the best of both worlds between 5.56 (anemic) and .308 (can’t self-spot very well). I wish I would have had that instead, vs every time I had an M24 or M14/M21.
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  31. Nobody complained about short barrels in SEA, Grenada, or Panama. Mark Bowden's book emphasized one guy's misses misrepresented as failure to stop hits, and the gun rag articles exploded with retard claims galore that became axioms online later.
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  32.  @gordonjohnson405  AR-10 is far superior to the M14 if you want 7.62x51. It was back then too, but entered the competition too late. The Dutch AR-10s are amazing rifles. I've used them all, had M21s in 2 of the 3 Recon Platoons I was in.
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  33.  @gordonjohnson405  I was in I Corps LRS at Lewis, F Co 52nd Infantry, after I DROS’d from 1-506th Inf Scouts in Korea on the DMZ. The only malfunctions I have seen with M14s were mainly from sand getting in them. Sand will shut an M14 down quick, and it’s very east to get in the action and magazine. We had a lot of M14s in my first unit in VA, and M21s with broken ART II scopes in the H Co Arms room (not HHC, but H Co) for our Recon Platoon. In Korea, we had brand new-in-plastic National Match M14s. We cut them open to start using as Sniper Support rifles alongside the M24s. I spent a lot of time with an M14 in some flavor, not including all the Match rifles I’ve shot on the civvy side. It’s funny because I always liked the M14, but have never invested in one, even though I always thought I would own one. Have owned 6 AR-10s and unknown number of AR-15s. I like the Dutch AR-10s (if limiting to that time frame) much better than the M14. If you haven’t shot one, you would be astonished at how accurate and well-balanced they are. M14 was Ordnance Board’s last hoorah, where they proved that they were no longer relevant in the firearms design business.
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  34.  @burnyburnoutze2nd  There is literally no practical benefit to 20” 5.56 over 14.5” when talking terminal effects. M4 with M855 62gr averaged 2920fps. That’s smoking hot mv, more than enough to get what you need out of 5.56.
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  35.  @HanSolo__  .30 caliber nazis in Army ordnance board in the 1950s, MacArthur back in the 1930s, etc. .276 Pedersen (was actually a .284/7mm) had been officially adopted as the US Army’s new service rifle cartridge for the Garand in the 1930s, with a 10rd en block clip and a lighter, handier rifle. It was more of a Goldilocks of its era, allowing the soldier to carry a lighter load or more ammo, lighter recoiling rifle, easier to train on, easier to hit with, more rounds per clip. A mid-sized AR-15/AR-10 chambered in an intermediate cartridge with a 6.35-7mm bore would have been more ideal in the 1950s, as we rehashed the same lessons-learned from The Great War when going over the mass AARs from WWII. They wanted lighter rifles, lighter recoil, more ammo capacity in the magazine, but still with plenty of downrange energy. Instead, they crammed .30 Cal M2 Rifle (.30-06) into a shorter case run at higher pressure in hopes to replace .45 ACP M1 Thompson, .45 ACP grease Gun, M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, BAR, and M1919 with 2 new weapons, the M14 rifle and M60 machine-gun. They seem to have totally ignored the advantages of the Stg44, PPSh-41, and cartridge developments in Europe.
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  36.  @TheREALLibertyOrDeath  High angle case taper like on .250 Savage and 7.62x39 creates way more bolt thrust though, wears the pressure containment parts out. Ease of extraction is controlled with the gas system.
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  37.  Travers Kilroy Cooper Alvirez  Original M855A1 was loaded hot, but then revised once they broke so many bolts. ARDEC funded research into a new CNC peening process for bolts, which increased bolt life from 13,000 to 26,000 rounds in the M4. The Canadians have had a better bolt manufacturing process for decades though. They don’t do that stupid HPT test.
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  38.  @gordonjohnson405  Did you copy my last by chance? Messages often don't get populated in the notifications often.
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  39.  @warhokn4178  Nothing coming out of 5.56 at that mv stays fast for long. BCs are so poor, that the energy bleeds off tremendously within close range. 20" juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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  40.  @ernestpaul2484  Were you in Battalion before going to Alaska?
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  41. Units who had a choice in what to use for their Support-By-Fire elements chose MAG58s and Hk21s over the M60. That steered Ranger Regiment and USMC into the M240 in the mid 1990s.
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  42. 2900fps with 135gr from 13" barrel, 4 MOA, 12-14lb carbine once configured.
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  43. I went to order a Honey Badger...SOLD OUT. Went to order a Noveske Ghetto Blaster....SOLD OUT.
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  44. Bush 41, Bush Jr.
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  45. Hey again. Did you mean M21s?
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  46.  @justinbiggs7729  I just saw a new SCAR-17S FDE and it looks like they updated the polymer on the stock.
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  47.  @justinbiggs7729  It appears to be a more substantial polymer than all the previous ones I've seen come through my DM courses, or the ones I've seen at SHOT dating back to its introduction. The typical SCAR stocks look and feel weak and hollow similar to the polymer on the P90. The new one I just saw at a local Scheels looked like they improved the polymer formula to make it more durable.
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  48.  @justinbiggs7729  The biggest challenge for thin polymer components are in extreme cold conditions. I’ve had early MIAD grips crumble and crack on me shooting high-volume suppressed in -30˚C conditions in the Arctic, back when they were using a conical screw for the grip. They later worked on the polymer formula and went with a flat faced grip screw to correct that design flaw. In an extreme cold, dry climate in the mountains, dropping the SCAR on the stock would be a prime mechanism of failure to consider, since polymer relies on a small % of water for its durability. For a competent military contract, a rifle should be subjected to the arctic testing lab, along with ice, sand, and dust immersion. There are NATO standards for all of this. If all the SCAR is for a consumer is a cool weapon to own and shoot in temperate conditions on clean ranges, with some minimal field exposure, then they should have no problems with them. I personally have questions about the durability in extreme cold.
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  49. Chopped RPD, first pic was a SOG operator. SOG Hatchet Force with multiple RPDs, RPGs, XM177E2s, M79s, and AKs was a lot of firepower to bump into in Laos.
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  50. You don't want to issue out 7.62 NATO to First Sergeants, Company Commanders, Platoon Leaders, Combat Medics, RTOs, Commo, NBC, Grenadiers, SAW gunners, FOs, AGs, ABs, Weapons Squad Leaders, Javelin Gunners, K-9 Handlers, Drone Operators, Combat Engineers, Mortarmen, etc. I would argue it's a bad cartridge for anyone in an assault element as well, which is often your lead Squads.
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