Shrug, i got one.5.56 is as good as 7.62.
hacksaws are better than hammers.
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Shrug, i got one.5.56 is as good as 7.62.
hacksaws are better than hammers.
This isn't so much an AR-specific myth as it is a optic-on-AR myth.
I was out at a local indoor range last spring sighting in my CompM4 after I got it when another shooter came into the room with a Bushy AR complete with a BSA sight on top of the removable carry handle.
He was definitely new to ARs as I watched him flip through the owner's manual of his new rifle as he tried like hell to get it zeroed. The guy looks over at me and sees my rifle and asks if I can help him figure out why he's so wildy off target.
I shot a few rounds at 25m to try to get on paper and saw the rounds were landing about 7 inches right of center. Not a big deal right? Just adjust the sight and drive on. I adjusted the sight what must have been 30 clicks to get it moved left but fired again and hit exactly where I did before. I moved the windage left and right about 15 clicks back and forth and saw absolutely no movement from the dot.
First I told the guy that his sight was broken, and he needed to get a new one. Then told him that BSA was shit.
Turns out the guy at the front counter sold it to him with the advice: "You don't need to spend more than $100 on a sight for your rifle. This one here is just as good as the $500 Aimpoint."
After that I helped the guy take off his POS BSA and attempted to sight in the irons. Turns out the front sight post was canted. At that point I gave up and went back to shooting my own gun. He left after that to go, I assume, bitch out the guy at the front counter and hopefully ask for a refund. Whether he did or not I don't know. I never saw him again but it never fails to see one of these guys out at the range sighting in a DPMS-esque rifle complimented with a Bushnell or like scope mounted to the carry handle.
That's exactly what MSGT. Marvin C. Pelfry told us in Mil. Science class in 1972 at Castle Heights Military Academy. He served several tours in Viet Nam with the 101st., and sometime in his career had earned the Silver Star and received at least one Purple Heart. He'd gone from the M1 to the M14 to the M16 during his time in the Army, so if he said it's so I'd believe it.
My favorite myths-
1) Relocating the piston fixes the the design flaw of the AR DI system
2) ARs with longer gas systems, smaller gas ports and heavier buffer & springs have less recoil
3) Increasing the barrel length from the gas port to the muzzle increases pressure at the bolt carrier
INSIDE PLAN OF BOX
- ROAD-RUNNER LIFTS GLASS OF WATER- PULLING UP MATCH
- MATCH SCRATCHES ON MATCH-BOX
- MATCH LIGHTS FUSE TO TNT
- BOOM!
- HA-HA!!
-WILE E. COYOTE, AUTHOR OF "EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW IN LIFE, I LEARNED FROM GOLDBERG & MURPHY"
I am American
The two myths that I've seen the most lately is the "myth of the AR snobs" (implying only snobs consider the TDP) and the myth that non-third tier ARs cost $2000 - $3000.
Me too, i need to choose my words more carefully.I myself have been guilty of arguing one should master iron sights before switching to optics. I should have said learn instead.
"The M14 is a superior weapon design to the AR."
Good judgment comes from experience. And experience… well, that comes from poor judgment.
Don't know if this one is true or not. (or if it even qualifies as a "myth")
I have heard on two different occasions of some one squirting large amounts of some unspecified lube into the gas tube during cleaning. They never let the liquid out, and thus turn a DI gas pressure operating system into a hydraulic system, making the rifle go KABOOM when they want it to go bang.
I have never personally witnessed this, nor read about it on the net. But I have heard it mentioned on two separate occasions from gun store commando types.
"Magpul" is just a new government code name to cover up the ORIGINAL "Mattel."
p.s. - heard this one at a gun show near the WV borderlast month. I'd stopped at a table where a guy had some Aimpoint Comp M rubber covers, as I was in the market for a couple. A Dale Gribble sort, was conversing with Rusty Shackelford there behind the table, about some "SECRET stuff" he was 'privy to,' when I caught THAT gem. I quietly slunk away, before I lost any MORE I.Q. over the encounter...
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