Glock Glockler
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Wanderer,
Who's talking about match rifles, I don't know if they were discussed even once on this thread? We are talking about combat rifles, and the purpose of which is to assist in creating causalties among the enemy, and would that objective be better performed in a rifle that was smoother and more balanced during firing?
The AK 103 is a step in this direction, yet it does not sacrifice the excellent Kalashnikov reliability.
Keith,
From all accounts that I've read, the German Stg44 had a very balanced recoil that allowed it to be extremely controllable during full-auto fire, and they were not supporting those rifles like they were the MG42, yet those on the recieving end of the Stg44 quickly learned to respect it. I don't have the detailed accounts at my fingertips but it was given a baptism by fire, airdropped to Germans who were completely enveloped by Soviets and the Germans then cut through the Soviets back o their own lines.
The Ultimax light machinegun is also supposed to be extremely controllable on full-auto, and it was developed by Jim Sullivan, who was one of the architects of the Counterpoise system (supposedly reducing recoil on semi-auto by 50% and full auto by 80%). Sullivan apparently rediscovered the formula used on the Stg to create the balanced recoil mechanism.
From what I can tell the empirical data, limited as it is, supports a controllable mechanism for delivering fire.
Who's talking about match rifles, I don't know if they were discussed even once on this thread? We are talking about combat rifles, and the purpose of which is to assist in creating causalties among the enemy, and would that objective be better performed in a rifle that was smoother and more balanced during firing?
The AK 103 is a step in this direction, yet it does not sacrifice the excellent Kalashnikov reliability.
Keith,
From all accounts that I've read, the German Stg44 had a very balanced recoil that allowed it to be extremely controllable during full-auto fire, and they were not supporting those rifles like they were the MG42, yet those on the recieving end of the Stg44 quickly learned to respect it. I don't have the detailed accounts at my fingertips but it was given a baptism by fire, airdropped to Germans who were completely enveloped by Soviets and the Germans then cut through the Soviets back o their own lines.
The Ultimax light machinegun is also supposed to be extremely controllable on full-auto, and it was developed by Jim Sullivan, who was one of the architects of the Counterpoise system (supposedly reducing recoil on semi-auto by 50% and full auto by 80%). Sullivan apparently rediscovered the formula used on the Stg to create the balanced recoil mechanism.
From what I can tell the empirical data, limited as it is, supports a controllable mechanism for delivering fire.