The improvements significantly improve accuracy and can be accomplished signficantly cheaper than buying new guns
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The improvements significantly improve accuracy and can be accomplished signficantly cheaper than buying new guns
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I just hope that the improvements are actually improvements. Some of the new gear they come out with is questionable at best.
Fair enough. Its no surprise why the M27 is more accurate and has better sustained fire capability. I suspect if you replaced the M16FOW barrel with a similar barrel to the M27 you would gain most of the IAR capability at the cost of weight of course.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...F6KDEgVYy64QpB
My guess is that the Marines plan on piggy-backing on whatever the Army decides to do with their M4/M4A1s, but that they also want to keep the musket around and competitive/useful (and if they can succeed with the M16 while the Army is still trying to figure out the PIP for the M4, use the basis of their new M16s to upgrade their M4s and get the bragging rights that go along with the Army having to dump their stillborn M4 PIP for the Marine M16/M4 PIP). And if the Marines can embarrass the Army thusly, the Marines are less likely to bear the brunt of any congressional budgeting ire.
I could easily be wrong, though.
Nope its just a regular hammer forged Hbar. Here is another pic, note the separate bayonet lug indicating this is a real M27 barrel not just from a regular old 416.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/w...6079055134.jpg
Sorry, couldn't see the extra bayonet lug in the first pic. Looks like that is the same thickness as my 416 upper's barrel (last date code before they started the M4 profile under the handguards). Guess I also missed the lack of M203 flats on the barrel behind the gas block. Damn, I'm slipping!
It's funny you mention that; when ESS first started getting issued I talked the company's president at Marine Expo West about how the bows kept popping off them all the time. He did they concentrated so much on the lenses and we did not pay enough attention to the rest of the design
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