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A lot of people overestimate the efficacy of armor. Sure, the projectile may be stopped by the armor but the inertia is still carried through. It’s real easy to do the big sleep if you get struck in the dome with 00 buckshot regardless of whether or not the projectile is caught by the armor.
If you get shot with a .308 in the chest at close range, wearing level 4 armor, you’re probably still going to end up with at the bare minimum a few fractured ribs.
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Chet
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@matty @Chet @Eiswald Best part about them is that you could still find some good AP for them for so long.
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@StoleMyThundersBalls @kekkerel @matty That’s EXACTLY what the BAR needs, more weight
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@Eiswald @matty @Chet Befriend old men, man. I got mine from an old guy who had it saran-wrapped and left in his garage. He bought it for $50 once upon a time and didn’t really want it, when my eyes lit up and I started talking about how rare it was he just shugged and said “take it, I don’t want that piece o’ shit”
Lots of guys grabbed mosins for cheap, anyone who’s shot them probably won’t find them too charming anyway
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@Eiswald @matty AR10 is for smart men. Nobody I know has held on to their SCAR, once the wow factor wears off you realize you have the same BOA as the AR with a proprietary mag system and a reciprocating handle.
Not sure if they ever corrected the recoil impulse thing in V2, I remember the first batch had some talk about being very hard on optics, shook one guy’s expensive vortex apart around here, he ended up making profit on it when he sold it to some tactifag
Meanwhile, an AR10 gets you SR25 mags and parts commonality for 1/2 the price (and your enemies think you’re carrying a 556 from afar)
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@matty I can’t remember the idea, but a fren told me something once about how the mosin is effectively the budget AP rifle in the USA. I think it had something to do with the amount of penetration you get from the steel core surplus ammo…. but it may have been because you could find their old russian black tip at gun shows for less than a dollar a round.
Those days are done, and I wouldn’t really be comfy fighting with a Mosin in anything less than, say 300 yards. They’re VERY hard to work under stress, that stubby bolt is a recipe for trouble when you have to keep your eyes up on target while you take return fire
Actually the garand Black tip used to be around, too.
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@leespringfield1903 @Eiswald @matty ‘Good” how? Reliable enough, just don’t expect too much out of your cheap chink mags without a lot of trial. I sold mine, they’re cool and all, but they’re just heavier than they need to be if you want optics. I love the romance of a wood stock, even fiberglass, but looking at the optic mounting system on there just killed me. I’d look down and realize I had like, a full pound of steel just to have a section of pic rail. I hate that, it’s tiring, it’s wasteful, and it’s less ammo/batteries you end up carrying in the long run.
I was trying to turn an M1a into an AR10. And as an Ar10, the M1a sucks. You have lower cap magazines, harder battery of arms (I tend to plan around the weakest shooter in my family/team, so rock&lock mags aren’t my fave) and all this extra weight trying to reform its ergos into a more modern gun.
If you’re willing to let the M1A be it’s own thing, then it’s a fine gun. I still love them, I just don’t have much use for one when the ammo is too costly to plink with. If you can happily live w/ scout scopes and M14-specific carriers then you’ll have a ball with it
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@Eiswald @matty I THINK they probably solved it, I think they have a V2 scar that got rid of the reciprocating bolt handle….
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@StoleMyThundersBalls @kekkerel @matty Fun range toy, but the whole thing is just so funny to me - company ends up w/ BAR receivers and wants to turn them into something profitable, so they pick an infamously heavy ‘we only give it to the 6’7” guy in the unit’ gun and decide to scifi COD-style it and add extra weight.
13 lbs empty? Plus 30 rounds of ought? Plus that (probably) steel magazine? Plus an optic? Sling? Light?
No matter how cool it looks, there’s a limit to the absurdity. Nobody aside from rich dentists and porsche sales managers own these, and they barely shoot them at the range once every 3 years.
I refuse to believe you’ll ever see someone slinging an HCAR, running around in the collapse with a 17-lb combat DMR
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