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    SAR once wrote up a Class II Manufacturer that had converted a PSL from 7.62x54mmR to .50 Alaskan.
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    The story at the time was that the SAS spent more money in testing the candidate weapons than they did in purchasing the selected L119A1.
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    Someone still needs to interview Knox's George Reynolds before he gets too old and begins pining for the fjords. I want to know about his 30mm single-shot and semi-auto underbarrel grenade launcher designs for the US Army back in the 1970s. I believe that he was also behind Knox's standalone semi-auto 30mm grenade launcher that was flogged for several years by Honeywell and then ATK before the OICW program finally drove a stake through its heart. Most folks know him now for the current Armalite AR30 and AR50 rifles.
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    FWIW: Paul Jaeger has something of a cult following among custom rifle collectors. http://www.germanhuntingguns.com/archives/archive-jaeger-paul/
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    Never mind that the British SAS had acquired 5,000 AR-15 in 1965, and put them to use almost immediately in Borneo. Never mind that they ordered another 13,000, circa 1967.
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    Documents Repository: Small Arms

    D.E. Watters replied to Collimatrix's topic in Infantry Tools & Tactics

    I still want to see the unsolicited Brunswick SAW. https://www.google.com/patents/US4066000 For that matter, I'd also like to get more information on the Springfield and AAI belt-fed machineguns chambered for SPIW cartridges.
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    Documents Repository: Small Arms

    D.E. Watters replied to Collimatrix's topic in Infantry Tools & Tactics

    The ACR trials final summary is also there. It describes all of the candidates, even those that didn't make it to the trials. Mind you, there are two copies; one is a crappy photocopy, while the other looks like it was scanned from an original. I think this is the correct one. "Advanced Combat Rifle (ACR) Program, Volume I, ACR Program Summary" February 1992 https://www.smallarmsreview.com/archive/detail.arc.entry.cfm?arcid=S00440
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    Documents Repository: Small Arms

    D.E. Watters replied to Collimatrix's topic in Infantry Tools & Tactics

    The US Army tried to duplicate the Aussies' results and couldn't. "Flash Suppressor Comparisons and Analysis for the F89 and M249 Machine Guns" February 1993 http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a263086.pdf
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    The Federal Syntech is merely an outgrowth of their decades old Nyclad design, which had originally been developed and sold by Smith & Wesson. Federal bought the patent rights when S&W decided to get out of the ammunition business in the early 1980s. https://www.google.com/patents/US4328750 Also note that the Herters ammo is being loaded by CCI/Speer, Federal's sister company under the Vista Outdoor corporate umbrella.
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    Don't forget that both Manurhin and FAMAE were licensed to produce the SG540 series. Manurhin sold some to Lebanon prior to (or during) their civil war in the 1970s.
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    FWIW: The M14 EBR stock was an outgrowth of NSWC-Crane's efforts to graft Sage's Remington 870 retracting stock on existing stocks for the M14.
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    Colt offered a four-position selector in its "Enhanced" line. I seem to remember Greece buying some.
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    TLG had specific horror stories about his time at SIGARMS. In one example, one of the Ron Cohen's underlings floated the idea of making a less accurate barrel so they could then sell the existing OEM barrels as an extra-cost upgrade part. Todd also fought to make the SRT a standard offering across the P22# line. It literally would not have cost any more than the legacy action parts. However, this was shot down as the SRT could be marketed once again as an extra-cost upgrade.
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    Bash the EM-2 Thread

    D.E. Watters replied to Collimatrix's topic in Infantry Tools & Tactics

    Dang. That said, perhaps this was only meant for the prototype runs? You wouldn't want to mill out a bunch of sheet metal forming dies just to have the receiver configuration change. Note that when Gene Stoner fabricated his AR-12 prototype, the upper receiver was actually machined to look like it was stamped. The goal was to eventually transition to stampings once the basic design was settled.
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    Bash the EM-2 Thread

    D.E. Watters replied to Collimatrix's topic in Infantry Tools & Tactics

    Is the EM2 receiver an entirely machined piece, or is it merely a machined section solely for the barrel trunnion and locking abutments, encased in a stamping? Say like a StG44?
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