D.E. Watters

Alas, the issue with FN Herstal prototype cartridges is that former employee Jean-Paul Denis is infamous for producing fakes.

It might also be worthwhile to check the AR-18's weight from the SAWS trials reports.

I've found one SAWS report that gave the AR-18's weight as 7.81 lbs, complete with sling and loaded 20rd magazine.

FWIW:  The Magal was roughly a Micro Galil rechambered for .30 Carbine, not a converted M1 Carbine.

I knew it would be Daniel Watters with the save!

It might also be worthwhile to check the AR-18's weight from the SAWS trials reports.

AR-180 should weigh exactly the same as an AR-18, minus the auto sear. AR-180B should be substantially lighter, but it's also a piece of shit. Well, more of a piece of shit than the AR-180.

I weighed Alex's AR-180 as part of my Weight Omnibus. It is a normal Costa Mesa AR-180 with no modifications. Suffice it to say the "6.7 lbs unloaded" listed by Wikipedia is a total lie. I want to know where that comes from.

The 1965 Gun Digest noted the weight of the earliest AR-18 prototypes as 6.3 lbs.  The article in question was written after the January 1964 public demonstration for the gun press and military.  SAR has mid/late 1960s ArmaLite flyers listing the weight at 3.04 kg or ~6.7 lbs.  When the US Army tested the AR-18 in late 1969, their sample weighed 7.37 lbs without the magazine or sling.  The report noted a long list of changes in the new AR-18 samples from the samples previously submitted during the 1965 SAWS trials.  For example, the barrel extension was larger, the furniture had been changed from polycarbonate to glass-filled nylon, and the walls of the furniture were also thicker.

 

"Back in my day we had covers, not covers of samples of covers, and we were happy"

I plan to have the creakiest rocking chair when I get old

http://rhymeswithorange.com/comics/may-2-2011/

I believe Tim got a few things wrong in his timeline.  The original Daewoo K1A and K2 were caught by the GHW Bush import ban of 1989.  This led to creation of the thumbhole stock models that were ultimately killed during the Clinton administration's tightening of the "Sporting Purposes" characteristics for importation.

The South Korean and Singaporean governments each went to domestic designs in part due to the fact that they were not able to export their license-produced M16 rifles without the permission of Colt and the US State Department.  And it didn't help that the US government caught each of them trying to dodge this requirement on multiple occasions.  You'll note that Jim Sullivan moved to Singapore during the time that he designed the Ultimax 100 in an attempt to evade the State Department's weapon export restrictions.  This gambit would no longer be legal.



 

Something recently struck me. A lot of people suggest that the magazine of the Winchester M1895 lever action was designed for spitzer projectiles, but I suspect that this was merely a happy accident. After all, who was using spitzers back when the rifle was being designed in 1894? Judging from the language of the patent, it looks more like JMB was hoping to offer a variant fed by en bloc clips.

https://www.google.com/patents/US549345
 

Don't blame me.  I voted for Kodos.

Ah, and now the phone will no longer be ringing off the hook with pleas from every campaign to come and caucus for them.  Nor will I be inundated by calls from various polling organizations.  I will have a brief respite until one of the parties has a presumptive nominee.

I've never seen a good explanation for it.  I suspect it was an issue with tolerances stacking between the tube, the follower, and the spring.  And never underestimate the ability for a determined squaddie to mash things that weren't thought capable of being mashed.  Supposedly, some troops were even found to have loaded 22 rounds in a 20rd mag.  

Back in January, Small Arms Review posted a few of the reports sent in by the Project Manager Rifle's teams in South Vietnam.  One is LTC Underwood's report from late 1966, and another is from 1967 when rifles were being refitted in theatre.  In the latter, it noted that some soldiers didn't want to exchange their Edgewater spring buffers for the heavier Sturtevant buffer.  The soldiers in question preferred the higher cyclic rate over the increase in reliability and durability.
 

"No one liked 30 round magazines because 20 were more reliable/no one ever loads full 30/20/X amount of rounds but 2-4 less!" seems to be a reoccuring myth with quite a few firearms and their feed systems.

 

Example, I think it was D.E. Watters (or was it?) who pointed out that the same myth with the original 20 round magazines for the M16 and that they weren't loaded to 18 rounds because they were unreliable at 20, but rather because some soldiers were dumb and/or bad at counting and would try to load them well past their listed capacity of 20 and just try to shoehorn as many as they could inside instead.

Yes, I've said that quite often. 

You'd think that the magazine overstuffing issue would have gone away once ammunition began to be shipped on chargers, but I still see examples of troops who seemingly don't know how to use the chargers.

I have all of the post-WW2 editions.  The 10th, 11th and 12th editions are the best.  The last two were put together by Dr. Edward Ezell.
 

I picked this up at a University of Toronto library book sale for CAD$ 2

I once stumbled across a former Remington executive's page where he claimed to have worked on the LVAW proposal for the Combat Applications Group.  Remington's LVAW submission would have been the AAC Honey Badger.

After claiming that I wouldn't be able to complete the ARP Kongo and Myoko missions, I seem to be well on course to completing both.  Yesterday, I managed to down the last of 150 fighters needed for Stage 2 on the Kongo.  Strangely, I did this on the backs of DD, BB, and CA/CL other than the Cleveland.  The MM refused give my Cleveland much in the way of carrier matches.  I'm now on the downhill slide of Stage 3 to the Kongo.  A few more games should grind out the remaining damage.  As I've been concentrating on my Tier 6 cruisers, so I'm also on a good start with the Stage 2 fire requirement for the Myoko after I finally eked out my last few DD kills needed for Stage 1.  

The rifle in question was likely the AR-1 or another early ArmaLite bolt action.
 

Also note that Burton Miller became VP at ArmaLite after he retired from the USAF in 1963.
 

Learn how to shoot a DA revolver.  Seriously, once you master the DA stroke, you'll never need to thumb cock again.

Just took my Konigsberg out for her maiden voyage.  Dear heavens, she is OP!  I can basically smite anything within range.  I even scored a citadel on an Arkansas with a plunging shell.

The weird thing about the match was that the enemy Bogue spawned just outside our cap on Ocean.  The counter hit zero, and there she was...12 clicks ahead.  Needless to say, she was smothered with shells and sent to a watery grave.

 

https://youtu.be/dOy7vPwEtCw

https://youtu.be/c3_aekDjr9c

I've concluded that I'm unlikely to complete either ship's missions.  In addition, I just realized that neither prize ship will be a true premium.  I won't be able to use them to train my other IJN captains.

All the Mutsuki excels at for me is grabbing capture points ahead of the enemy team.  I just have to be a ninja, and avoid contact.

I finally broke down and bought the Captain's Weekend package in order to buy a few more port slots.

I cannot run the Mutsuki to save my life.  It is a major let down after the Minekaze.  Once I get it to Elite status, I'll probably dump it for an open port slot.

I'm not seeing why the Karlsruhe has such a bad reputation.   Yes, it is slower than the Phoenix and Kuma, and yes, it has lower range.  However, once you are within range, its high rate of fire and AP penetration will tear apart its higher tier CL/CA counterparts like a can opener.  I will definitely grind its Captain skills until I can buy the range buff, followed by the ROF buff.  I'll be doing the same for the Kolberg, just for seal clubbing sessions. 

My other new slots were filled by the Kawachi and the Langley.  I figured that I needed to grind up to the Bogue so I can finish the 150 aircraft kill mission for the free premium Kongo.  Yes, it will have a silly anime camo scheme, but it is a free premium IJN BB and port slot!  I doubt that I will be able to finish the missions for the free premium Myoko.  I'm having no luck getting regular DD kills with my T6 ships.  Everyone else seems to snatch the kill before I can land the last blow. 

Looks like Ruger didn't pay Tim enough :

You'll note that I predicted that issue over on Grant Cummingham's FB post.  The problem will only get worse once the thumb safety variants are released.  People will also ultimately complain about the wide flat under the magazine release.

https://youtu.be/pYBDHCmlXco

In related news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.