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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Put a 200 round ammo box on the ground and stack seven 30 round mags next to it.
For an even more ridiculous comparison, put a couple of the SF 90 rounders next to it.
Ammo feeding from a box or an assault pack does not, in fact, "get hung on everything.
People who carry ammo Pancho Villa style do not know what they are doing.
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Noted sir, especially the mags to box comparison. I seem to remember that often the belt would get pulled from the box often and unintended, but, It has been almost twenty years since I have been in boots and obviously my three years in the Infantry do not quite equal that as the average experience of anyone in JSOC. In the early 90s, you had to be a Spc promoteable to be eligible for the selection course.
I actually was quite the fan of the SAW and as the opp for in the Infantry Skill Stakes in USAREUR, we hosted a lane that had a squad that had marched in from a live fire to an unoccupied and previously overrun position on top of a wooded hill. When they had replaced the sand bags on the dug in positions and put the stakes and wire in place, they would call us on the radio. It would be 4 or 5 of us coming up the hill, through the wire and basically commit suicide; Obviously, the whole point was to grade the squad who came in. We were just hosting the lane.
During the day as we were sitting around waiting on the next squad to show up, just mucking around, I noticed that there were 4 or 5 saws sitting on the ground, nobody wanted to carry the damn thing up the hill and had traded out for a rifle, so the SAWs had just unintentionally stacked up. We had a gung-ho Lt and talked him into, "Why not we just all carry a SAW up? They are elevated and dug in, what could it hurt to make these guys work for it? Besides, the French are up next! He went for it and that is what we did. By the time they detected us at the wire and both sides opened up, within just a few seconds, that hill was blaring the tones of every set of miles gear they had!
Maybe that is why I am so hung up on getting a cut above the regular battle rifle? As I had mentioned in my earlier post, these Asians are hard as nails and the Marines and NAVSOG (US trained) would make their US counterparts proud. But, I am the size of the average Asian and I know all too well what it is to carry the load requirement of a man twice my size. When shit has to get done, fair can not always make the train. The whole concept appeals to me and it appeals to my primary. If we can make this work, then I will work on proving how much better it is. The savings in cost and weight is a serious player; But, it is more worthwhile to service small units. I could easily triple the size of this post just by glossing over why government procurement is really not worth the trouble and 9 times out of 10, only the largest companies can even qualify to bid on contracts.
If in fact, the Surefire HCM is not quite the cat's ass as I have convinced myself after all, my personal enthusiasm for the open-bolt AR platform would be a little more than dampened. We have the facilities and manpower to actually do this, I just want the best understanding that I can get before we put man hours into it. If he sees he can trust me, then my original designs may just see the light of day. It will be an adventure, either way.