« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 8 9 [10] 11 12 ... 16   Go Down

Author Topic: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)  (Read 66685 times)

Michael Bane

  • Global Moderator
  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1478
  • Host & Editor-in-chief
    • michaelBane.tv
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #90 on: March 05, 2009, 05:32:44 PM »
I haven't jumped in here for a awhile, but I really like the comment that the choice of weapons is strictly situational...I'm sunk in research/planning for TBD: SURVIVAL, reading one endlessly depressing scenario book after the other (Want to spread some good cheer? Let me recommend 7 DEADLY SCENARIOS: A MILITARY FUTURIST EXPLORES WAR IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Andrew Krepinevich, who has far too many credentials on this stuff)...I have almost convinced myself that I need an island, a bailout and at least one nuclear weapon...

Michael B

PS: I'm still gonna come down on the side of the FAL!


Logged
Michael Bane, Majordomo @ MichaelBane.TV

sanjuancb

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 246
  • The years teach much which the days never knew.
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #91 on: March 05, 2009, 05:50:00 PM »


M1A Scout Squad

20 yards? Sure!
200 yards? Absolutely!
Reliable? You bet.
Powerful? 7.62 x 51mm
Heavy? If you have muscle mass from anything beyond lifting a TV remote, you can't complain about 9 lbs.
Logged
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

PegLeg45

  • NRA Life, SAF, Constitutionalist
  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13172
  • DRTV Ranger
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 1209
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #92 on: March 05, 2009, 05:51:56 PM »
Very fine machine.....the M1A......yep......very fine machine.
Logged
"I expect perdition, I always have. I keep this building at my back, and several guns handy, in case perdition arrives in a form that's susceptible to bullets. I expect it will come in the disease form, though. I'm susceptible to diseases, and you can't shoot a damned disease." ~ Judge Roy Bean, Streets of Laredo

For the Patriots of this country, the Constitution is second only to the Bible for most. For those who love this country, but do not share my personal beliefs, it is their Bible. To them nothing comes before the Constitution of these United States of America. For this we are all labeled potential terrorists. ~ Dean Garrison

"When it comes to the enemy, just because they ain't pullin' a trigger, doesn't mean they ain't totin' ammo for those that are."~PegLeg

tombogan03884

  • Guest
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #93 on: March 05, 2009, 06:30:53 PM »
Personally I'd leave off the bipod and carry more mags, but that's just me, I can still get into the sitting position. ;D
MB, If you can come up with the lathe and milling machine, I can build you the nuke, their actually fairly simple.
Oh yeah, you'll have to supply the plutonium too. ;D
Logged

Badgersmilk

  • Guest
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #94 on: March 05, 2009, 07:00:59 PM »
The scout rifle looks pretty sweet.  Proves that with a few mods any of the rifles covered will do the job nicely!  I'm with tombogan though, drop the bipod.  Nice to see a new rifle that isnt covered with enough rails to attach everything including a cup holder and ash tray!

I guess a tactical nuke really would be the answer to "ultimate" wouldnt it?!  Lots of people in Japan would agree anyway.  Well, those that were left!

I'm more than a little suprised nobody's speaking up for the SKS yet! (sorry, I still dont like stipper clips).  Come on SKS fans!  Throw your hat in!!!
Logged

Sponsor

  • Guest
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #95 on: Today at 02:53:32 PM »
Logged

Big Frank

  • NRA Benefactor Member
  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10816
  • DRTV Ranger
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 1417
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #95 on: March 05, 2009, 07:03:58 PM »
The SKS is too small of a caliber to be a battle rifle.
Logged
""It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency." - George Washington. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, Friday, May 02, 1783

THE RIGHT TO BUY WEAPONS IS THE RIGHT TO BE FREE - A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher

tombogan03884

  • Guest
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #96 on: March 05, 2009, 07:09:26 PM »
 The "K" is for Karbine, it isn't a "Battle rifle" either. Nice Carbine though if you put a stock on it that fits an American build.
The stripper clips  may be a PITA, but you don't HAVE to use them like the Garand clip, and it means there are no mags to lose or forget.
Logged

Hazcat

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10457
  • DRTV Ranger
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #97 on: March 05, 2009, 07:32:11 PM »
Quote from: Badgersmilk on March 05, 2009, 07:00:59 PM
The scout rifle looks pretty sweet.  Proves that with a few mods any of the rifles covered will do the job nicely!  I'm with tombogan though, drop the bipod.  Nice to see a new rifle that isnt covered with enough rails to attach everything including a cup holder and ash tray!
I guess a tactical nuke really would be the answer to "ultimate" wouldnt it?!  Lots of people in Japan would agree anyway.  Well, those that were left!

I'm more than a little suprised nobody's speaking up for the SKS yet! (sorry, I still dont like stipper clips).  Come on SKS fans!  Throw your hat in!!!



;D
Logged
All tipoes and misspelings are copi-righted.  Pleeze do not reuse without ritten persimmons  :D

warhawke

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 365
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #98 on: March 05, 2009, 09:28:40 PM »
Mr Bane, you need a DSA Congo Para, folding stock (and internal recoil spring) 18" barrel, get an Israeli charging handle (for the forward assist), an L1A1 mag release and safety and the stripper-clip style railed scope mount and put you an ACOG on it.

That, 10,000 rounds and 50 magazines and you will be good.
Logged
"Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem"
(The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety)
Virgil

USSA-1

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 202
    • US Shooting Academy
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Battle rifles (223 need not apply)
« Reply #99 on: March 06, 2009, 07:28:33 AM »
Well, glad to see my thread came back to life!

Quote
AR-15s and AR-10s will function just fine with the bolt rings lined up. It's only a myth that they won't.

Quite right, that is a big myth.  When the bolt is inserted into the bolt carrier, part of the resistance you feel is bolt carrier compressing the gas rings.  When the gas rings are compressed the gaps close off.  It doesn't matter where they line up.

Fully automatic weapons most certainly do have a place on the modern battlefield.  It doesn't take any real skill to put a bullet into someone from across the room with a rifle.  With the exception of one or two target areas, you are not going to see instant incapacitation from any rounds you fired.  This all boils down to doing damage.  You need to do as much damage to the threat in the shortest amount of time to cause him to either volutarily or involuntarily quit the fight.  This means multiple rounds in a very short time frame.  This is best accomplished with fully automatic fire. 

Badgersmilk has his life experiences on which he bases his decisions, as do you and I.  Being first through the door more times that I can count, nothing has given me comfort more than knowing I have one more selector position, should I need it.  That's my life experience.

I would also go easy on the attachments tirade.  Most attachments enhance the operators ability to work in different environments.  Sure, there is a lot of worthless crap out there, but there is some good stuff.  Having the wisdom to know the difference is the big issue.

Let's try to keep this thread on track.  If you want to discuss which rifle is best for a SHTF scenario, then please start another thread.  This is about battle rifles, which are generally considered to be 308, 30-06, 8mm, etc.

Gentlemen....carry on.

USSA-1
Logged
"Occupo Mens"
Win the Fight

Watch The Tactical Rifle Channel
Pages: 1 ... 8 9 [10] 11 12 ... 16   Go Up
« previous next »
 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk