D.E. Watters
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Cartridge Collecting Thread
Got some new acquisitions just before I left for vacation today (so no pics yet). They are:
Colt .30 Salvo Squeezebore
6x35mm KAC/TSWG
XM645 flechette with compressed fiber sabot
Winchester Long Neck .30-06 Duplex
Winchester .308 Magnum Exp
.30-18 Browning
.30 Blake
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
I don't think I've ever been more excited about a Forgotten Weapons video:
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Cartridge Collecting Thread
Welp. Just spent over an hour hacking up one of those rounds and photographing it. Post to come later.
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Cartridge Collecting Thread
Looky looky what I just got in the mail: http://i.imgur.com/KXJFYbh.jpg
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
Historical .22 1895 US Army Experimental, rendered in SW:
Solidworks does not have any stock tin color, and I had a tough time simulating it. I think it went OK.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
I suspect that it is also being fired with handloaded ammunition, so the velocity and projectile specs may not be adequate for proper accuracy and penetration.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
If SAR would just get their website back in order, I could find the link to HK's proposal to JSSAP for the SMG I.
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
I just want you all to know that, at long last, they are coming:
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D.E. Watters reacted to Alex C. in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
Today on "Stuff I Didn't Ever Think I Would Ever See For Sale":
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=568442278
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D.E. Watters reacted to Alex C. in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
This thread needs some life:
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D.E. Watters reacted to Collimatrix in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
Strange French PDW by GIAT prototype of the 1990s:
Here are exact dimensions of the cartridge that it fired. The cartridge was a 5.56x22mm, but is sometimes described as a 5.7x22mm.
Other than that I have no information on the PDW or on that extended magazine for the FAMAS F1.
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D.E. Watters reacted to Alex C. in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
Yes, I have read that piece and it is essentially what you turn up in most places. Which is "it kind of looks like a G36, but that's pretty much all we know. Oh, but it doesn't work like a G36."
Even the Spanish sources I have read are quite terrible, and I have never been able to find any details about trialing the gun, accounts of Ordnance (how long before stuff like this usually becomes public info in the US/Europe?), or even feedback from users.
Also, Mexico's patent site does turn up some info:
http://siga.impi.gob.mx/content/common/busquedaSimple.jsf
Search for: PA/A/2006/007961
Other pertinent documents:
http://vidoc.impi.gob.mx/ViDoc/visor.do?Param=SIGA$PA$E$PA/a/2006/007961
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
Speaking of egregious errors in advertising, has anyone noticed the bar charts the new Polycase print ad? The last time I checked, a taller bar was supposed to indicate a greater value than the shorter bar. The folks who assembled the ad seem to think that this doesn't really matter. Lower kinetic energy value for a Polycase cartridge versus a conventional type?...Let's give it a taller bar anyway.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
John Garand is the instructor.
The kids are Janice and Richard Garand.
Is Janice holding a Gas Trap?
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
John Garand is the instructor.
The kids are Janice and Richard Garand.
Is Janice holding a Gas Trap?
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Cartridge Collecting Thread
My latest batch of acquisitions:
.303 Magnum, .333 Jeffery Flanged, .303 British Mk. II, 5x57mm Sturtevant:
.303 British Mk. II again for some reason, 7mm Mauser 139gr FMJ, 8x59RB Breda Ball, 8x59RB Breda AP, 7.5x54.5 GP90/23, 7mm Mauser 173gr RN, 8x56R Steyr, 8x50mm Lebel Balle M:
.30 Winchester Center-Fire 170gr FMJ, 6.5x54R Vostok, .303 Magnum again for some reason, 7mm Remington Magnum, .333 Jeffery Flanged again for some reason (I didn't do a great job setting up this lineup...), .338 Lapua Magnum:
5x57mm Sturtevant (again), 5.56mm XM855, 5.56mm XM777, .25-45 Sharps, 7.65x38 Swiss with bullet alongside, 7.5x38 Swiss, 5.6x39mm Russian, 5.6x39mm Russian (Lapua):
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
Light Rifle V is finally underway. I have no idea when it will be done, but it's at least begun.
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D.E. Watters reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
It's been a while since I got stymied on Light Rifle (and then a lot else got in the way), but tonight's the night I get back to work in earnest on LR5.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Collimatrix in An Analysis of the GSh-18 Pistol
That photo shows the machining of STI's metal sub-frame, not its slide.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Belesarius in Das Gee-Sechsunddreißig Ist Tot.
In a world full of compromise, some don't...unless you suck, and we hate you.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Sturgeon in Das Gee-Sechsunddreißig Ist Tot.
In a world full of compromise, some don't...unless you suck, and we hate you.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Khand-e in Das Gee-Sechsunddreißig Ist Tot.
In a world full of compromise, some don't...unless you suck, and we hate you.
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D.E. Watters got a reaction from Belesarius in An Analysis of the GSh-18 Pistol
That's effectively how SIG-Sauer made their original stamped P22#-series slides. They welded a nosepiece to the stamping in order to close the front of the slide.
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D.E. Watters reacted to LoooSeR in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
http://otvaga2004.mybb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=1184&p=17#p740526
Otvaga member posted his impressions of Vykhlop.
Ammunition:
