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wrote in message ... First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? Accuracy is a bit disapointing on mine. I'd agree with gunner's 3" group estimate. Tons o' fun to shoot. Never jams. Small and light wieght. Get a few 30 round clips and go blast something full of holes. I got the folding stock and have it handy for personal protection instead of a pistol. At close range, a pistol is no match. I never much believed in fair fights. Karl |
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wrote in message ... First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? Best rifles EVER made! I have two I could be talked into selling, I need the cash for an operation for my dying mother. I take Visa and MasterCard. |
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On Dec 31, 3:10*am, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:35:02 -0600, wrote: First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? You are lucky to get 3" groups at 100 yrds. Operation of most of them is fair to reliable. Some of the newests ones are finished with sandpaper and concrete slabs for polishing media. Ive a 181 Series that has been reliable for ..humm...15 yrs..but..its not something Id take out to shoot anything smaller than bunnies at less than 100yrds..or JBTs out to 250yrds They Can...can..can be made into decent shooters..but by the time you stuff enough money in a gunsmiths pocket..you would have been better off buying a AR-15 of some sort. Minis are unfortunately..one of the few removable magazine semiauto "battle" rifles allowed in California...and **** Bill Ruger. Shrug Gunner "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766 I used the mini-14 on the job for ten years. I spent a few days on the range with the armory Sgt. sighting in weapons. We had a steady rest set up and we shot a five shot group at 100 yards and another five shot group at 150 yards. Usually we would be firing 30 weapons during the day. One rifle in that 30 might shoot a one inch group at 100 yards but most all of them did good to hold between two to four inches at a hundred yards. Close enough for government work I guess but I would probably spend more than the original purchase price to get one tuned up if I owned it. DL |
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On Dec 31, 12:35*am, wrote:
First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? Unless you're stuck with one because of state laws, an AR will outshoot it any day of the week for one that costs about the same. Minute of washtub was the rule for a lot of the older ones. As far as operation, they've always gone bang. At one time, Minis cost about half what an AR did, Mini price has gone up, AR prices have stayed about the same, lots more competition in the market. Check out magazine prices, too. Stan |
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"Steve Ackman" wrote in message rg... In , on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:21:47 -0500, Buerste, wrote: wrote in message ... First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? Best rifles EVER made! I have two I could be talked into selling, I need the cash for an operation for my dying mother. I take Visa and MasterCard. I could be talked into buying both of them... for the right price... say, $300 for the pair. Just so happens, I actually have a Visa. I'll sure miss good 'ol mom! |
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:21:47 -0500, the infamous "Buerste"
scrawled the following: wrote in message .. . First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? Best rifles EVER made! I have two I could be talked into selling, I need the cash for an operation for my dying mother. I take Visa and MasterCard. titter What color's she dying, Tawm? -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? |
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:21:47 -0500, the infamous "Buerste" scrawled the following: wrote in message . .. First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? Best rifles EVER made! I have two I could be talked into selling, I need the cash for an operation for my dying mother. I take Visa and MasterCard. titter What color's she dying, Tawm? -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? Considering that she's dead, I'd guess she's dying purple. I could have saved her if I sold my Minis. |
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 03:43:10 -0500, the infamous "Buerste"
scrawled the following: "Larry Jaques" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:21:47 -0500, the infamous "Buerste" scrawled the following: wrote in message ... First hand experience on accuracy? Operation? Best rifles EVER made! I have two I could be talked into selling, I need the cash for an operation for my dying mother. I take Visa and MasterCard. titter What color's she dying, Tawm? Considering that she's dead, I'd guess she's dying purple. I could have saved her if I sold my Minis. I'm sorry to hear that. You didn't find any suck^H^H^H^Hwise buyers, eh? -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? |
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:03:11 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins
wrote: On Jan 1, 11:45*am, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 03:43:10 -0500, the infamous "Buerste" ... ...I could have saved her if I sold my Minis. I'm sorry to hear that. You didn't find any suck^H^H^H^Hwise buyers, eh? I was warned that they were disappointingly inaccurate, like an AK. Is there a simple fix? Sure is..sell it and buy a some sort of M1A Or even an AR (spit) Gunner "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766 |
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On Jan 1, 12:03*pm, Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Jan 1, 11:45*am, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 03:43:10 -0500, the infamous "Buerste" ... ...I could have saved her if I sold my Minis. I'm sorry to hear that. You didn't find any suck^H^H^H^Hwise buyers, eh? I was warned that they were disappointingly inaccurate, like an AK. Is there a simple fix? Same problem as the issue M14 had, a large reciprocating weight under a skinny barrel. Guys have dinked with the gas system, put heavier (and better-made) barrels on them and almost have arrived at the accuracy today's out-of-the-box AR can do. My $89 chink SKS does better than the b-in-l's Mini. Stan |
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:03:11 -0800 (PST), the infamous Jim Wilkins
scrawled the following: On Jan 1, 11:45*am, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 03:43:10 -0500, the infamous "Buerste" ... ...I could have saved her if I sold my Minis. I'm sorry to hear that. You didn't find any suck^H^H^H^Hwise buyers, eh? I was warned that they were disappointingly inaccurate, like an AK. Is there a simple fix? Buy a real rifle? I don't know, as I've never even shot a Mini. -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? |
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"Buerste" wrote:
There are a few. I did a bit of research a while ago and a few no-cost jobs like re-torquing all the fasteners especially on the gas port interface, floating the barrel and a bunch of stuff I don't quite understand. Both of mine do a fine job, don't jam and such but they aren't match rifles by any means. "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen |
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"Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. David |
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On Jan 3, 6:30*pm, "David R.Birch" wrote:
Wes wrote: "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. David The accurate rifle concept apparently came from the Boer war where an army of experienced hunters scored hits at half a mile plus on the British. Previously gunpowder smoke often obscured the enemy too much for carefully aimed fire. It isn't really true of WW2, GIs carried a mix of the semiauto Garand, the assault-rifle-like carbine, scoped Springfields, the BAR and several 45 Cal submachine guns. Requirements varied rapidly in thick forest or jungle, across the open fields around a town, and then in its streets and buildings. The Germans who originated that tactic used it for defense more than offense, and issued bolt-actions in quantity until the end. In WW1 the US was preparing Pederson sub-gun adapters for the Springfield for the Spring 1919 offensive. In 1898 we had experimented with machine guns in the attacks around San Juan Hill, but they were too heavy to lead the advance. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/thgtl10.txt (It's tedious before Chapter VI) jsw |
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On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:56:51 -0500, Wes wrote:
"Buerste" wrote: There are a few. I did a bit of research a while ago and a few no-cost jobs like re-torquing all the fasteners especially on the gas port interface, floating the barrel and a bunch of stuff I don't quite understand. Both of mine do a fine job, don't jam and such but they aren't match rifles by any means. "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen "On the other hand..reliable rifles can save your life" Sergent Louis DeGree, Armorer, Da Nang, 1972 "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766 |
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Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Jan 3, 6:30 pm, "David R.Birch" wrote: Wes wrote: "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. David The accurate rifle concept apparently came from the Boer war where an army of experienced hunters scored hits at half a mile plus on the British. Previously gunpowder smoke often obscured the enemy too much for carefully aimed fire. I say this more a testimony to the skill of the Boers compared to that of the Brits. It isn't really true of WW2, GIs carried a mix of the semiauto Garand, the assault-rifle-like carbine, scoped Springfields, the BAR and several 45 Cal submachine guns. Requirements varied rapidly in thick forest or jungle, across the open fields around a town, and then in its streets and buildings. The Germans who originated that tactic used it for defense more than offense, and issued bolt-actions in quantity until the end. The MG34 or MG42 supported by small arms was integral to the Blitzkrieg concept, just as they used infantry to support armor, when we were still doing it the other way around. In WW1 the US was preparing Pederson sub-gun adapters for the Springfield for the Spring 1919 offensive. Fortunately, the war ended before that poor idea had a chance to fail. In 1898 we had experimented with machine guns in the attacks around San Juan Hill, but they were too heavy to lead the advance. Gatling guns were repeaters, not machine guns. The Marines used 6mm Colt-Browning potato diggers in Cuba, but there were still no medium machine guns in use then. David |
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Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or
about Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:13:22 -0800 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:56:51 -0500, Wes wrote: "Buerste" wrote: There are a few. I did a bit of research a while ago and a few no-cost jobs like re-torquing all the fasteners especially on the gas port interface, floating the barrel and a bunch of stuff I don't quite understand. Both of mine do a fine job, don't jam and such but they aren't match rifles by any means. "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen "On the other hand..reliable rifles can save your life" Sergent Louis DeGree, Armorer, Da Nang, 1972 "A man finds a lot of redeeming features in something that does that." A 3rd Lt's response after the Grizzled Vet said "I like it, it save my life." in a discussion on various firearms the US Military has. - pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough! |
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On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:30:14 -0600, the infamous "David R.Birch"
scrawled the following: Wes wrote: "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. Lerps in 'Nam picked up muddy, always-usable AKs and tossed their early, quick-jamming M-16s. The smart ones also quit smoking and ate the same fishhead & rice diet the Vietnamese did so their smells were the same, internally and externally. The M-16 was eventually debugged, but lots of our guys died from the early models. That was inexcusable. -- Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. --Thomas Paine |
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On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:48:26 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:30:14 -0600, the infamous "David R.Birch" scrawled the following: Wes wrote: "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. Lerps in 'Nam picked up muddy, always-usable AKs and tossed their early, quick-jamming M-16s. The smart ones also quit smoking and ate the same fishhead & rice diet the Vietnamese did so their smells were the same, internally and externally. The M-16 was eventually debugged, but lots of our guys died from the early models. That was inexcusable. Indeed. Very very true. Gunner "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766 |
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Let the Record show that Steve Ackman
on or about Sun, 3 Jan 2010 23:30:52 -0700 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: In , on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:30:14 -0800, pyotr filipivich, wrote: "A man finds a lot of redeeming features in something that does that." A 3rd Lt's response after the Grizzled Vet said "I like it, it save my life." in a discussion on various firearms the US Military has. A 3rd Lt? That's what "summer interns" from the Academies or the ROTC programs get called. Whether you still get that temporary rank I don't know, but you do get referred as that. While 3LTs maybe in the chain of command, legally, you're in a world of hurt if they are the only officer around. You're better off letting the corporal lead. Or the PFC. pyotr - pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough! |
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On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 23:30:52 -0700, Steve Ackman
wrote: In , on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:30:14 -0800, pyotr filipivich, wrote: "A man finds a lot of redeeming features in something that does that." A 3rd Lt's response after the Grizzled Vet said "I like it, it save my life." in a discussion on various firearms the US Military has. A 3rd Lt? A Logistics Master Sargent? Gunner "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766 |
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On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:30:14 -0600, "David R.Birch"
wrote: Wes wrote: "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. David Hmmm.. With the "target rifles" we won the two world wars we fought with them. Then we fought the Korean "police action" with the same target rifles. Then we switched to the toys and haven't won a war since :-) Regards, J.B. |
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: On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:30:14 -0600, the infamous "David R.Birch" scrawled the following: Wes wrote: "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. Lerps in 'Nam picked up muddy, always-usable AKs and tossed their early, quick-jamming M-16s. The smart ones also quit smoking and ate the same fishhead & rice diet the Vietnamese did so their smells were the same, internally and externally. The M-16 was eventually debugged, but lots of our guys died from the early models. That was inexcusable. The jamming problem was NOT caused by faulty DESIGN but by faulty AMMUNITION. The Stoner-designed Armalite was designed to utilize IMR powder and, in its initial testing and Air Force deployment, served so well that the brass at the Pentagon decided to adopt it for the other services. Unfortunately, however, the "geniuses" at the Pentagon preferred doing business with Winchester rather than Remington and wrote the ammo specs to require BALL powder in the cartridges. The dustier BALL powder resulted in both frequent jamming due to powder fouling AND degradation of bullet performance due to lowered velocities. While the addition of a "Bolt Assist" helped (somewhat) to overcome the fouling of the chamber by the dirty powder in the substandard ammunition, the only "treatment" was frequent cleaning of the firing chamber. I wonder if the REMF that wrote those specs got his Directorship with the Olin Corporation when he retired... |
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Musta been French?
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Steve Ackman" wrote in message rg... In , on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:30:14 -0800, pyotr filipivich, wrote: "A man finds a lot of redeeming features in something that does that." A 3rd Lt's response after the Grizzled Vet said "I like it, it save my life." in a discussion on various firearms the US Military has. A 3rd Lt? -- ~¯~¯ |
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Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or
about Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:50:59 -0800 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 23:30:52 -0700, Steve Ackman wrote: In , on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:30:14 -0800, pyotr filipivich, wrote: "A man finds a lot of redeeming features in something that does that." A 3rd Lt's response after the Grizzled Vet said "I like it, it save my life." in a discussion on various firearms the US Military has. A 3rd Lt? A Logistics Master Sargent? I didn't ask. He did say that his unit never had any casualties because officially they never left Okinawa. If you got hit, you got a retroactive transfer to an unit "in country". It was one of those "stand round the fire and talk story". "The Kid" was just back from Uncle Sam's Summer Camp for Wayward Boys, and he and the Vet (I do not recall either of their names). were talking, mostly about what the kid had just gone through. "Yeah, we had a Master Sergeant give the lecture, and for every weapon, he had a story." and so forth. Something got mentioned - a M1C key Mou-se - and the kid, of course, having just come from the familiarization, wasn't impressed, and said as much. The Vet said "It saved my life on a couple occasions." To which the smart you lad said "A man finds a lot of redeeming features in something that does that." Yep, he'll do well. It might be he was this generations smart Second Lieutenant. But I haven't seen either gentlemen in over ten years, minimum. - pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough! |
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On 04 Jan 2010 15:25:30 GMT, Eregon wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote in : On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:30:14 -0600, the infamous "David R.Birch" scrawled the following: Wes wrote: "Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported by riflemen. Lerps in 'Nam picked up muddy, always-usable AKs and tossed their early, quick-jamming M-16s. The smart ones also quit smoking and ate the same fishhead & rice diet the Vietnamese did so their smells were the same, internally and externally. The M-16 was eventually debugged, but lots of our guys died from the early models. That was inexcusable. The jamming problem was NOT caused by faulty DESIGN but by faulty AMMUNITION. The Stoner-designed Armalite was designed to utilize IMR powder and, in its initial testing and Air Force deployment, served so well that the brass at the Pentagon decided to adopt it for the other services. Unfortunately, however, the "geniuses" at the Pentagon preferred doing business with Winchester rather than Remington and wrote the ammo specs to require BALL powder in the cartridges. The dustier BALL powder resulted in both frequent jamming due to powder fouling AND degradation of bullet performance due to lowered velocities. While the addition of a "Bolt Assist" helped (somewhat) to overcome the fouling of the chamber by the dirty powder in the substandard ammunition, the only "treatment" was frequent cleaning of the firing chamber. I wonder if the REMF that wrote those specs got his Directorship with the Olin Corporation when he retired... IN 1964 and 1965 I was stationed at Nha Trang air base. 5th special Forces camp abutted on the back of the Nha Trang airbase and I used to eat in the S.F. mess. When the first hullabaloo happened with the M-16 and people started writing home to Mama about their gun jamming I mentioned this across the supper table to a bunch of army people. I was told that 5th had conducted the "jungle tests" of the M-16 and "we never had a malfunction". The statement was followed by the comment "Of course we clean our weapons". I can't comment from personal experience (the A.F. is the only service that sends its officers out to do or die and stays safely at the base :-) but I've always wondered about the stories of people who threw their M-16 away to grab up a muddy old AK. Where did they get the ammo? Did the U.S. Army maintain stocks of AK ammo because they just knew that their people wanted it? Regards, J.B. |
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in
: There was a velocity issue with the original loadings, too, IIRC. The version the Air Force accepted did not meet general Pentagon requirements for service-rifle velocity. Supposedly, that's why there was a change in ammo. The "velocity issue" was that the IMR powder pushed those itty-bitty bullets so fast that, upon impact, the projectiles would "keyhole" and, thus, create more devastating wounds than the slower-velocity BALL powder loadings. When this difference was mentioned to McNamara's Finest, they panicked and started screaming "instability" and "inaccuracy" since they would never (even in their wildest nightmares) stoop so low as to actually observe the phenomena much less make any attempt at discovering the facts. Besides which, Olin didn't load IMR powder and Remington didn't load BALL powder. Thus Remington got the Rifle Contract and Olin got the AMMO Contract - and everybody made money hand-over-fist. |
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Opinion of Ruger Mini 14 .223?
On Jan 5, 12:51*pm, Eregon wrote:
"Ed Huntress" wrote : There was a velocity issue with the original loadings, too, IIRC. The version the Air Force accepted did not meet general Pentagon requirements for service-rifle velocity. Supposedly, that's why there was a change in ammo. The "velocity issue" was that the IMR powder pushed those itty-bitty bullets so fast that, upon impact, the projectiles would "keyhole" and, thus, create more devastating wounds than the slower-velocity BALL powder loadings. When this difference was mentioned to McNamara's Finest, they panicked and started screaming "instability" and "inaccuracy" since they would never (even in their wildest nightmares) stoop so low as to actually observe the phenomena much less make any attempt at discovering the facts. Besides which, Olin didn't load IMR powder and Remington didn't load BALL powder. Thus Remington got the Rifle Contract and Olin got the AMMO Contract - and everybody made money hand-over-fist. Remington NEVER produced M16s, it was a COLT baby, and the reason that IMR powder wasn't used was Dupont couldn't reproduce the ballistics that original experimental batch had. See Black Rifle 1 & 2 before spewing hash. Has the whole sorry story of the M16's early days. McNamara's band has a prominent place but there's plenty of blame to spread around. Stan |
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