• Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      You’re right. We should arm all militaries with the G11.

      Big Ruger has bullied indie company H&K for far too long.

    • HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      You do know that AR references the singular company Armalite, right?

      Also it makes no sense to say in my opinion x is objectively better than y. If it was objectively better then it’s not just your opinion…

      And you’ve completely ignored the history of the advanced combat rifle program which showed that advanced “space weapons” like the G11 had little improvement over the m16 and culminated in a 300 million dollar cost to figure out that putting a scope on any rifle was the best way to improve that rifles accuracy leading to development of the acog scope?

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          Masterful.

          I was actually typing up a serious reply to your other comment until I read about HK being a small niche indie gun developer rofl.

          The fucking Vietnam era unfully loaded mags thing… god its been a while since I’ve seen that.

          So uh what are your thoughts on the Polish Grot originally being developed as both a standard and bullpup modular design only to have the bullpup version being dropped?

          Also, who would win in a firefight, DEVGRU or SAS rofl?

      • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Nah nah let him cook. Hes right. Every grunt in the world deserves a Unica and a G11. Hell, they deserve the Pancor Jackhammer.

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              6 months ago

              More gun per gun than any other gun on the market.

              /uj on a serious note, does this malfunction twice as often?

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                6 months ago

                I’m a practical man, with practical problems, that have practical solutions.

                For example, some mean ole mother hubber want’s to put a hole through your spine?

                Use a gun.

                That don’t work?

                Use more gun.

                Aha, in seriousness, I have no idea how reliable this thing is or isn’t. But, if one action jams… you still have the other one. Thing has two different triggers, so, unless you get two simultaneous jams, you still have a functional weapon.

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                Only non shit multi barrel rifle I’ve ever handled irl was an old break action 2 barrel, one for 22, one for 410 shells. Old ranch hand / rural keep the vermin away type thing. Must have been made in the 60s.

                Barring something like that… I cannot actually think of any real weapon that I’d say was a multi barrel rifle, do you have more examples?

                First thing that pops into my head is I think Arma 3, the CSAT have some kind of assault rifle thats got one magazine thats close to 5.56 or 5.45, its some intermediate rifle range that doesnt really exist… and then for some reason also has like 5 rounds of some kind of 12.7/50 cal.

                Second thing I can think of is back from BF 42 days, I think DC or DCR had an M4 that also had a masterkey underbarrel shotgun. Those are/were real, but it doesnt count as its a shotgun.

                Thirdly… Metal Storm? I don’t think they ever managed to make that into anything resembling a rifle though.

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    I think you can put any current bullpup service rifle on this list. You can tell because almost always, the militaries that adopt bullpup rifles switch to a traditional layout for their next one.

    Also, I’m always down to shit on the L85.

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          Correct. I think they are already being fielded too, at least for the troops patrolling mainland France.

          Source : ran into 3 guys in full gear (and their HK416s) while grabbing snacks at the corner store a few months ago

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        The actual, serious complaint I have by far heard the most often by actual shooters and reviewers is that the trigger pull is clunky and much more significant on bullpups than on non bullpups.

        While I have not shot a bullpup… I find it odd that nearly all of the reviewers I have seen complain about this to the point of it being a widespread meme and point of mockery… it doesnt seem to actually affect their accuracy or drill times much, and they will all tell you they don’t use bullpups anywhere near as often as non bullpups… so its kind of a self fulfilling prophecy in that… im sure if they practiced more, even that small discrepancy would lessen.

        Other sort of silly complaints I’ve seen are that they bruise and cut their hands when trying tonuse it like a longer weapon that can set up against a rock or other object to establish a firing position, because they are used to having more weapon length after where their hand grips on the barrel shroud.

        The most legitimate concerns IMO are ease of field stripping and maintenance, though this seems to be improving with more modern designs, and the ejection port position making the gun very unfun for a lefty with brass and gas flying into your face… but there are bullpups with ambidextrous configurable ejection ports, or a few oddballs with downward or forward facing ejection ports that solve this problem.

        Many will also complain about awkwardness of reloading and length of pull, but given that multiple world militaries seems to not have a problem using bullpups as service rifles, seems to me that sufficient practice would negate these issues. There also exist bullpups with adjustable stocks.

        I have actually seen a study that shows that inexperienced shooters have better performance in terms of drill time and accuracy with bullpups over standard rifles, and experienced shooters with lots of standard rifle experience, while they do perform better with standard rifles, significantly overestimate how much better they were with the standard rifle in comparison to the bullpup.

        If youre interested, the american youtube gun community seems to begrudgingly like the VHS 2 / Hellion, and the IWI 95/Tavor. Its pretty difficult to get your hands on many other bullpups that are known from movies or video games in the US as there aren’t civillianized semi-auto variants of them manufactured.

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        Shit fucking triggers, the explosion is literally right next to your face, shit ergonomics because of it

        But hey, the gun is a tiny bit shorter with a tiny bit longer barrel!! Gtfo

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        As much as I wish I could try an F2000 or AUG, I have no credible first-hand experience and can only parrot complaints that I have read on the Internet:

        Ambidextrous use is more difficult when the ejection port is next to the shooter’s face. It’s not ideal for all your left-handed soldiers to have their weapons setup differently from all your right-handed soldiers. A workaround like the forward ejection on the F2000 is technically impressive, but complex.

        All the controls - trigger, safety, bolt release, magazine release - are either operated by longer/more complex mechanisms or are tucked under the shooter’s chin, farther away from the normal hand positions.

        Putting the chamber close to the shooter’s ear is nobody’s idea of fun.

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    Ummmm ahkctually the Chinese have been issuing the QBZ 191 instead of the QBZ 95 for some years now.