Lessee, thin, not free floated barrel, no drop free magazines, no last round bolt hold open (why did FN start doing that?), bulky, sight radius shorter than it has to be, fixed optic model (what is this, the 1970s?), and the trigger group looks suspiciously like an AUG's...
OK, I could see that. I don't know that it's over-rated though, since it doesn't get that much airplay. Got to hand it to FN's engineers though, the integrated rangefinding grenade launcher sight and forward ejection are nifty, and it's one of the very few bullpups with a safety selector in the same postal code as the shooter's hand.
And I had forgotten how much a 10-22 costs just to get a useable receiver you can modify into a decent .22. Thanks.
True. Of all the myriad .22 autoloaders, why did the 10-22, with all its curious eccentricities become the most popular?
I notice some of the most popular are by definition the most overrated. I recall stories about how Russian AKs can SHOOT THROUGH TANK ARMOR and it's disgraceful that the US has cheated its troops with a rifle that can't shoot through plywood
I would say for the guys who've only handled a range ho rifle at BRM...wait for a REAL M16. It may still be overrated, but it DOES shoot.
I'm almost ready to do my side by side by side test of Garand, AR and AK. I actually expect the Garand to fail first. (Go ahead and laugh...)
What parts of the garand are prone to failure? I admit I don't know much about them.
Would anyone claim the FAL is overrated? Or the CETME? (just curious)
CETME? No, because nobody sings their praises. They are rightly considered solid, but generally unremarkable milsurp .308 autoloaders.
FALs I have a substantial list of complains about. I don't care how much of the free world used them; ubiquity does not excuse overcomplication.
What about the Model 29? Good gun, but Dirty Harry made it an object of religious worship.
But it's the most powerful handgun in the world!