Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten Weapons"
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@heycidskyja4668 Fact is that there were practically two classes of service cartridges at the time. The "7-8mm, over 3000 joules energy at the muzzle" (30-06, 8mm Mauser, .303 British, 7.62X54r...) and the "6.5mm, from 2200 to 3000 joules energy at the muzzle" (Carcano, Arisaka and so on).
Modern service "intermediate" cartridges are below 2200 joules power, so it wouldn't be a problem, but practically all the cartridges proposed to solve the 5.56-7.62 dualism belong to the old "6.5mm 2200-3000 joules" category. So the problem. Are, IE, 6.8 SPC, or 6.5 Grendel, intermediate cartridges? They are made to be shot from an AR15 platform. But, power wise, they are in the "old service 6.5 rounds" category.
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@justforever96 As already said, loading belts "was a backline activity". If you believe Germans loaded their MG belts in first line, you should check your brain (or, better, having it checked by someone with a functioning one) before talking of the intelligence of others.
As for logistic, as already said: "the Volkssturm was armed with a pletora of different weapons, that had different spare parts and would have required different training that none could give to the militians."
The idiocies you are "sure of" are your business only. Simply the Germans had grandiose (that was quite usual for them late in the war) plans to distribute HUGE quantities of rifles to the militia. For that quantity, convertion was convenient, and so they started to convert. But that quantity was also completely unrealistic given the conditions of their industry. "For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds."
"you don't also want to be digging out warehouses of captured enemy ammo and distributing it to units all over a chaotic front with the limited transport you have left."
So, you already dug into those very same warehouses FOR THE RIFLES, and ignored the crates of million rounds sitting there already packed and ready to be transported. Then, "with the limited transport you have left" you carried the rifles to arsenals to be converted to single shooters, so consuming THE LIMITED INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY YOU HAVE LEFT, to make a single shooter out of a repeater. Then "with the limited transport you have left" you carry those single shooters to "a chaotic first line" WITHOUT SPARE PARTS OR TRAINING FOR THE GUNSMITHS, believing they could be good for something, instead of taking the rifles, the ammos for them, and simply delivering the rifle along with the ammos.
Now, let's see what the Volksturm really had.
On 15 January 1945, for example, the Volkssturm in Gau Bayreuth had a total of
1,148 rifles Model 1888 ( needed obsolete 8mm "88 patrone" cartridges),
1,265 rifles Model 1898 (from World War One),
543 Karabiner 98k,
5 Gewehr 43 (semi-automatic rifles),
17,562 Italian Carcano rifles,
1,974 French captured rifles,
64 Russian rifles (Mosin-Nagant),
1 Romanian rifle,
34 Dutch rifles,
129 Belgian rifles,
134 Czech rifles,
13 Polish rifles,
2 British rifles,
34 Austrian rifles,
173 9mm pistols,
2,038 7.65mm pistols,
982 6.35mm pistols,
1 Italian pistol,
19 French pistols,
25 Belgian pistols,
3 MPi 40,
2 MG 13,
4 MG 34,
2 Polish machine-guns,
2 Czech machine-guns,
1 French machine-gun,
1 Austrian machine-gun,
2 Czech heavy machine-guns,
1 mortar 5cm,
1 mortar 8cm,
1 French gun,
4,436 pieces Panzerfaust,
690 grenades Eierhandgranaten,
720 grenades Stielhandgranaten.
So, surprise surprise, not talking of all the OTHER calibers. Only the Volksturm of a single German region of 2.2 million people had more Carcano rifles than the entire production of converted rifles of Krieghoff and FNA Brescia.
So, surprise surprise, the Germans dug into those warehouses in search of ammos after all.
So, surpsise surprise, to add a logistic supply line of converted 7.92 Mauser single shooter Carcano rifles to the already existing and vastly preponderant supply line of 6.5 repeater Carcano rifles, only complicated the German logistic.
Who would have told?
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It has to be said that, in the '70s, many decocker-less DA/SA designs appeared. CZ75, the original Beretta 92, Bernardelli P018...
In all those designs, like in the B76, the half-cock position was intended to be the "safe" option for decocking, since you could hold the hammer (or put a finger in front of it), pull the trigger, allow the hammer to move only slightly, and at that point, releasing the trigger, the hammer would have seated safely on half-cock position.
Only later it appeared to be clear that, for a service SA/DA pistol, a decocker was almost mandatory (It's revealing that, while the original CZ75 retained the 1911/style safety, the "clone" Tanfoglio TZ75 of the early '80s already had a Beretta-style slide mounted decocker).
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Just to be clear.
The AR10 / AR15 system is as much as a “real direct gas impingment system” as this one. Only the point of application of the pressure of the gas changes (from the top of the bolt carrier to directly behind the chamber), not, in any way, the way the gas is used, pushing directly the bolt carrier.
In the AR, like here, in the bolt carrier, there is a cup, a “blind hole” where the gas ends and the pressure applies. If you call the one of the AR “a cylinder”, then that “cup” of the Rasheed is a cylinder as well and, if you call the back of the bolt head of an AR a “piston” (that is not) then what you call in the Rasheed an “open gas tube” is a piston as well.
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