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  1. D.E. Watters
    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.
  2. D.E. Watters
    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.
  3. D.E. Watters
    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.
  4. D.E. Watters
    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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    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.
  7. D.E. Watters
    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?
  8. D.E. Watters
    Don't forget the four HV-series rifles made by Chambons. They were originally divided evenly between 7x49mm (2nd Optimum) and .30 T65. HV-1 was later rechambered from 7x49mm to the .30 T65, and later yet, converted for the legacy .30-06. FWIW: The T65-chambered BSA rifles ran from #1 to #10, of which six were located in the Pattern Room collection. There were apparently fifteen 7.62mm EM2 made by RSAF-Enfield. Note that the serials ran from EN100 to EN114.
  9. D.E. Watters
    Many moons ago, TFB showed a police loading with a jacketed flat-nose projectile. The sectioned view revealed that it was a knockoff of the Federal EFMJ / Guard Dog design.
  10. D.E. Watters
    That photo appears to show the .38 S&W (9x20mmR). Note the large rim.
  11. D.E. Watters
    .338 Lapua ammunition is simply expensive, even in the US.
  12. D.E. Watters
    Some mortar designs can conceivably be carried loaded, as they have individual triggers. However, I'm not aware of the safety features to prevent accidental firing if carried loaded. Some of the older foreign designs simply used hash marks on the sling for elevation/range. You just step on the hash mark for the appropriate range and pull up on the tube to tension the sling.
  13. D.E. Watters
    The British 2" Mk VII* and Mk VIII mortars of WW2 were the forerunners of the 51mm L9A1 light mortar. Supposedly, the 40mm UBGL was finally adopted because the stockpile of 51mm bombs was quickly used up in Afghanistan and Iraq, and there was no longer a commercial source anywhere outside of India. Beside India, Yugoslavia once made and exported its own clone, the M8. The US 60mm M19 Mortar with its original M1 baseplate would fit the Commando mortar concept, although it was hardly lightweight. This was developed during WW2. The Brandt 60mm Type A and Type V Commando mortars were exported from France to around 20 different countries, and production was licensed to Chile, at minimum. After Brandt was rolled up into the Thales empire as TDA, these became the MO 60 CA and MO 60 CV. Brandt clones appear to include the Argentine MC 1-60 FMK-2 Mod 0 Commando mortar, the Iranian HM12 Fateh and HM13 Narollah, the Portuguese M/968 60 mm Commando mortar (made by FBP/INDEP), Here is the Hirtenberger M6C from Austria. I think that it was formerly known as the Böhler C6. Arsenal of Bulgaria reportedly licensed the C6-210 design. http://hds.hirtenberger.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/HDS_60mm_CdoSystem.pdf The Soltam 60 mm C 03 Commando mortar has been used by the Israelis and Hondurans. The LM-60K and LM-60 K2 60 mm Commando mortars were produced in Poland. The ROMARM 60 mm Commando mortar was produced in Romania. The ST Kinetics 60 mm Commando mortar was produced in Singapore. Vektor 60 mm M4 series of Commando mortars reportedly saw use by the SANDF. The M4L3 variant was also reportedly sold to the Mexican Army. The EXPAL 60 mm Commando mortar was supposedly adopted by the Spanish military. The MKEK 60 mm Commando mortar was supposedly adopted by the Turkish military. The various former Yugoslav republics have built and used the M70 60mm mortar. Export sales have supposedly been made to El Salvador.
  14. D.E. Watters
    FWIW: The British Army resisted the 40mm UBGL for years, claiming that their 51mm mortar filled the same role. 60mm "commando" mortars are nothing new either. You can make the tubes and bases super light, but that does nothing to make the individual mortar bombs any smaller or lighter.
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    Well it helps that I write it all down first! If I tried do it off of the cuff, I'd vapor lock more often.
  16. D.E. Watters
    The goofy design of the single-stack magazine forced it to release it contents as the magazine was locked into the magazine well. As a result, you could lose up to four rounds if you then removed the loaded magazine from the magazine well. On the bright side, this also meant that you could also force additional rounds into the receiver after the magazine was inserted. This meant four more rounds inside the receiver plus one in the chamber when in semi-auto/closed bolt mode.
  17. D.E. Watters
    People are only now figuring out that WG has been trending to Pay to Win?
  18. D.E. Watters
    I seem to remember several years ago when "Bagel Hand" was touted in the same fashion.
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    I just checked. It still appears as an option for me when I search under "Technical Reports."
  20. D.E. Watters
    You can sort by relevance or date. However, the date used for sorting is sometimes the date the document was first posted publicly after declassification.
  21. D.E. Watters
    I wrote that off to the way it was being held. The magazine length appears to be right for the 7.62x25mm models, and you can just make out the indent in the magazine tube seen in the same models.
  22. D.E. Watters
    Given the front to back length of the magazine, it might be the 7.62x25mm Sa26 instead of its 9x19mm older brother.
  23. D.E. Watters
    I think that is a byproduct of the Pushtu language classes he is taking. His classmates are rubbing off on him.
  24. D.E. Watters
    Page visits were way down, and Dean doesn't really care about it anymore. Many of his friends in the gunzine industry are now dead...Frank James, Walt Rauch, Pat Rogers, Peter Kokalis, etc.
  25. D.E. Watters
    Here is the full article from the May/June 1979 issue of American Handgunner. http://americanhandgunner.com/1979issues/HMJ79.pdf#page=36
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