Recent content by the mechsican

Gotcha. You are correct about the Rainbow Six/Call Of Duty fanboyism.

The 5.56x45 is a bullet that will fuck you up. It may not take you down right away, but the M855 ball round will do alot of internal damage. A .30/7.62, especially with ball ammo, tends to punch through a target rather than tumble; I've seen wounds where the M855 tumbles severely and breaks up...

Sorry. I got it mixed up. The Mauser has one less piece than the Mosin. I was thinking of overall rifle parts. Yeah, the Mauser safety is quite different. Did you ever get the cleaning kit, ammo pouches and dog collar sling with your Mosin? I have the M44 with the side folding bayonet. :)

How about the fact that I've been deployed to areas all around the world and fired numerous wweapons? Does that count? The AR series is good. It sounds like you are just quoting what a bunch of idiots who have never fired the rifle say. The military grade M-16 and the 5.56x45 will still...

The Mosin is more simple than the Mausers and fires the sheer awesomeness of the 7.62x54R.

The L85 is a piece of shit whose engineers hired H&K to fix their shitty design to make it mediocre at best. I've fired it and it is a piece of crap. The Valmet is just an accurized AK. It is nothing new. Galil will do the same shit for alot cheaper. Yes please explain about the FAL. It...

No shit. When I was in Iraq, some infantry guys had pulled out a bunch of AK's that had been buried under a bunch of dirt for over 20 years. All they did was hose them down, spray some WD-40 on them and fired a magazine (not a "clip) through them. Out of 200 AK's that had been pulled from the...

The G-11; A weapon that is just a developmental design that will never be used. I thought this was about rifles that have a superior design, not weapons that look cool. Caseless ammo that doesn't fire when moisture makes contact with it? No thanks!

I've known some French Army people who hate the FAMAS. Too short of a sight radius and cycling problems and malfunctions.

MP5 is another overengineered design from Heckler and Krotch whose makers think that it is worth it's weight on gold. It has been used by alot of teams who immediately replaced it with Colt M4 Carbines. The Remington 700 saw service in the military as the M40 for the USMC and the US Army as...

I only agree with the first part. The toolmakers at what I believe is Khyber pass(I don't really remember where) can make you any weapon for Kalashnikov price, but the quality of the weapon and the materials used are questionable at best. The FAMAS? Hahahaha another weaksauce weapon. For CQC...

What is with all you gamers naming all these weaksauce H&K weapons? 5 best rifles Mosin-Nagant 91/30 Mauser K98 (most other bolt-actions are influenced by it's design) AK-47 and 74 M-16 and variants FN FAL Unlike alot of you, I have fired numerous weapons in the course of my...