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Posted: 2/12/2013 8:32:27 AM EDT
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I think I definitely have a different way of doing many things.
I do lots of shooting ..caveat--not in an operational environment... I can't see why it was ever a good idea for operators to be trained to place magazines in a weapon with the bolt forward. Doing this seems to create by far more problems than it would overcome. Everything nuance from this training switch can also be changed and I would if it were me, but again I am not an operator. I have seen on a few different occassions, people with training, do something that doesn't get the first round in the chamber, since I am interested in the weapons performance and cycling, I stand to the right and to the rear, so I have tried to inform the operator of what I call a stall or FTF, and then the user does all these crazy actions that usually resulty in a live round ejected, when a simple view of the port would have been more helpful. Even in combat I think a person trained in that fashion would be more effective at getting the gun in action. Furthermore, when you increase magazine capacity, the force to overcome the magazine force (especially when completely loaded) with the off-hand is very difficult, you'll get a false sense of lock up. Banging on the bottom of magazine is flat out stupid. The false lock will lead you with a magazine on the ground. the bolt release seems like good idea for speed, but occasionally it will limp off for some reason leaving a stall, and if you had used the charging handle you would have your hand in the position for the slight pull back to get it punched in the chamber for the fastest follow up actions. I know that people will mess up the charging handle but if they were trained more on it maybe not, I guess dirt could also maybe alter this. I see viewpoints on magazine size, the 30 rder is about perfect for semi auto use. If you use a 30 rd magazine in full auto fire it is a gigantic cluster. You are changing magazines more than firing and you should only really be firing full auto as a suppression. When your opposing force has the same weaponry capabilities you have, suppressive fire speaks a universal language, The full auto long bursts in ones direction should buy enough cover time for movement for better shots or seeking a safer location. With an AR, the magazine is capably of being stowed on your body, and the heaviest combinations don't even equate to the dry weight of the SAW, so if the argument is they are too heavy, bulky, or whatever then what is your opinion of the SAW. I am an idiot and I don't presume to know anything but was wondering about some of these things this morning on my coffee break.. |
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Quoted:...I can't see why it was ever a good idea for operators to be trained to place magazines in a weapon with the bolt forward.
I'm no operator, but when I was in the infantry more than 30 years ago, we OFTEN reloaded on a closed bolt. Nowadays they call them a "tactical reload"; back then we just called it "topping off". Any time I"m holding a gun with a partially-depleted magazine and would rather be holding a gun with a non-depleted magazine - which is pretty often in my experience - that's when I reload on a closed bolt. To do it with an open bolt would mean dropping the partial magazine, rack the charging handle & lock the bolt back, insert fresh magazine, then drop the bolt. Much more complicated than simply 'drop partial magazine and insert fresh magazine'. |
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