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  1. D.E. Watters
    It isn't so much that they expect an individual shooter to successfully engage a point target at long range, but rather they hope that multiple shooters engaging an area target may make a lucky hit. If you get a lucky hit, wouldn't it be nice if it accomplished something other than bounce off ineffectively?
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    Ruger essentially bribed his way back into the NRA's good graces with a huge donation. That said, a lot of individual shooters still have not forgiven the company even though the old man is long dead. Truth be told, most of the large gun companies have flirted with gun controllers at one time or another in hopes of insuring that they might remain in business longer than their competitors.
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    Actually, that claim originated from a story that Bill Ruger told R.L. Wilson. According to Ruger, he had run into Rene Studler (long retired by this point) at a trade show. Studler was supposedly enamored with the Mini-14 prototype and encouraged Ruger to submit it to the Army. Of course, it would have been far too late to unseat the M16A1, but it made for a cute story.
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    Well, duh! Ash is an idiot. https://youtu.be/zgvXtexdgAM
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    If personal armor becomes a game changer, I suspect we'd see a greater use of HE and incendiary launchers. If we can no longer kill you with single projectiles, we'll shred your unprotected bits with fragments, set you on fire, and stomp you with overpressure.
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    Yes, Bushmaster bought out Cobb Manufacturing in 2007 for Skip Patel's multi-caliber rifle patents as well as this design. Of course, Skip Patel is now long gone, and has started a new company - DRD Tactical.
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    It is just the way that the cylinder is stressed. The top quarter of the cylinder can be blown off even when one or both of the chambers to either side have empty cases.
  8. D.E. Watters
    Alas, two Peters Stahl pistols are in the mix. You have an Omega on the left, and a customized BHP on the right.
  9. D.E. Watters
    FWIW: Laurie shot Michael in the face at the end of H2 with no effect other than blinding him.
  10. D.E. Watters
    The 9x19mm Government Models are more fun than a .22 LR conversion unit. Plus, it is an ideal platform for IDPA's ESP division.
  11. D.E. Watters
    Exactly!
  12. D.E. Watters
    The US Army Small Arms Systems Agency (USASASA) introduced the Dual Cycle Rifle (DCR) concept back in 1971. The brainchild of USASASA commander Colonel Raymond S. Isenson and Technical Director Leonard R. Ambrosini, the "dual cycle" referenced a burst being fired at a very high rate while feed and extraction occurred at a fraction of that speed. Testing of the SPIW had already shown how a conventional high cyclic rate mechanism with a single chamber and barrel could be unreliable. The SALVO-era multiple barrel designs suffered from excessive weight and bulk. Fifteen companies eventually submitted proposals, and four of these were accepted for further study as paper designs. Two companies, General American Transportation Corporation (GATX) and General Electric (GE), were ultimately selected to develop firing prototypes. The winning proposals used a single barrel combined with a multiple chamber cylinder. The cylinder was fed from a box magazine holding three individual rows of cartridges. During the feed cycle, the top three rounds were simultaneously stripped into individual chambers. GE's design used an asymmetrical three-chamber cylinder while GATX's design used a symmetrical nine-chamber cylinder. By 1973, the prototypes reportedly achieved cyclic rates of ~4,500 rounds per minute in three-round bursts. The US Army's basic design was US Patent #4,102,241: http://www.google.com/patents/US4102241 General Electric was US Patent #3,788,191: http://www.google.com/patents/US3788191 I have not been able to find a DCR patent directly credited to GATX. There is a small article on the DCR in the May-June 1973 issue of Army Research & Development Magazine: http://asc.army.mil/docs/pubs/alt/archives/1973/May-Jun_1973.PDF
  13. D.E. Watters
    That is a prototype "Dual Cycle Rifle", an US Army sponsored R&D program from the the early 1970s.
  14. D.E. Watters
    If you look closely, you can see that they cut the butt off of a second stock and flipped it over to splice it all together at the wrist. It was clearly an experiment to test the utility of an in-line stock without resorting to a vertical pistol grip.
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    True, but it would add to the smoothness of the bolt movement during cycling.
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    With the XDm, I suspect that logic was: Let's make the largest pistol that we can shoehorn into an IDPA/IPSC Standard Division box so we'll have a capacity and sight radius advantage over our competitors' long slide models that reuse their stock frames.
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    FWIW: Austin Precision Products (Laure Tactical) was making M1911 slides for STI back in the mid-1990s in which they used EDM to cut the breechface.
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    If you were willing to use a brass case, you could start with 9mm Winchester Magnum cases.
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    The SW99 was made under a co-production scheme back when S&W was Walther's US importer. Walther made the frames, and S&W made the slide assemblies. S&W also made some of Walther's PP and PPK family for the US market. In return, Walther briefly sold a S&W revolver under the Walther banner as the R99.
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    The MRI MR9/MR40 Eagles are partially made in Germany, not Israel. Their frame molding specifically calls out "Made in Germany." The Poles also have a P99 clone, which is made under license by Lucznik-Radom.
  21. D.E. Watters
    Hmm, I'm wondering if this isn't a roundabout reference to a primer setback action, like the early Garand designs and the AAI SPIW.
  22. D.E. Watters
    The Ingram experiment that I saw came from a 1980s vintage Guns & Ammo. Here's a video of a fellow running a M1911 with black powder in what I presume was a "Wild Bunch" match. https://youtu.be/j84J7VQ02CQ How about an AR-15 with black powder? https://youtu.be/kagMmjmExYU
  23. D.E. Watters
    I've seen a few articles where the authors have played with blackpowder in the .45 ACP. Besides the obvious M1911A1, one ambitious fellow decided to run the loads through an Ingram M10...instant smokescreen.
  24. D.E. Watters
    That wasn't as bad as the CBT with the post-WW2 Saipan running biplanes. My proposal has been that CV and CVL need the option of grinding out for higher tier aircraft outside of the hull upgrade path. The way to balance it would be to have the hanger loadout start to decrease once you surpass your ship's tier appropriate aircraft.
  25. D.E. Watters
    Cruiser AA has been nerfed in the last patch. My 5"/38 DP don't seem to touch anyone anymore. I've even had my floatplane fighter shot down by bombers.
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