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Thread: Why do folks like the M4 barrel profile?

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    Plus how many AR owners are going to attach a grenade luncher to there rifle? I would say not many! Just a waste of money to make that cut in the outside of barrel for the M4 look.

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    Is that a 325 crest I see there?

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    Yes sir it is. I was in the 3/325th Abn Inf-82nd Abn Div.

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    Interesting find on page 31, and I will quote "a 1:9 twist appears to be optimum for the army rifle". Let the arguing commence.

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    While the completion backwards principle M-4 barrel profile is indeed strange, so too is the Marine Corps adoption of the M-16A4 rifle with 20" barrel and fixed buttstock. What was the rationale behind that retrograde move?
    "The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage." - Thucydides, c. 410 BC

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    Quote Originally Posted by recon View Post
    Yes sir it is. I was in the 3/325th Abn Inf-82nd Abn Div.
    1/325AIR '87-'94, with a year as BlackHAt at Advanced Airborne

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmrtnsn View Post
    Interesting find on page 31, and I will quote "a 1:9 twist appears to be optimum for the army rifle". Let the arguing commence.
    Like I said, remember the time frame. Early 80's was when the testing and reporting was done, with '86(?) being when the report was published. were teh 70grn plus .224 bullets even available. or thought of?

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    Quote Originally Posted by R Moran View Post
    1/325AIR '87-'94, with a year as BlackHAt at Advanced Airborne

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    Nice! Was in from Oct-82'-Feb-85'.

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