So.. is my new AR a dinosaur?

K

Kaylee

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So there I was, happily zeroing in my new AR shorty.. and was really impressed, actually. Even with crap ammo, hitting the gongs at 250 yards w/iron sights wasn't that much a chore -- neat!

So then a buddy says "here, try this.." and sits me down behind an honest-to-gosh HK G36 rifle. Light weight, simple field stripping, and integrated optics that made plugging those 250 yard gongs EASY. What's more, it was pretty darn controllable, even at those distances, on burst mode. (4 position select)

So then I pick up my own AR again and start going after the gongs offhand again... now they look so tiny sitting on top of my irons... I'll tell ya, between the two, with the same operator, I'd rather have a feller trying to whack me with a bone-stock AR and a stock G36.

So... are we the dinosaurs for now, sitting on our Krags looking over the ocean to the guys with the Mausers again?

-K

Oh.. and as to reliability.. one jam, all day. Out of an M14. :eek:
whoulda thunk it?
 
how?

How'd he get a G36? Must've been a Class 3 dealer, and that must've been his dealer sample. I'm jealous.

The G36 is more advanced than the AR, that's all there is to it. It's newer by 30 years, and technology has come a long way since Stoner designed the AR-15. However, I can't see the US Military replacing one 5.56mm rifle with another. Most of the nations getting the "newer" generations of 5.56mm rifles are ones that still had, standard issue, their FALs or G3s in 7.62mm right up into the 80s and 90s, like Australia trading their FALs for Steyr AUGs and Spain trading their CETMEs for G36s.
 
And another note to Nightcrawler's post:

Although the US entertains weapons' testing of rifles from foreign manufacturers, they usually go for the American-made weapons. I guess there's sort of a sub-conscience distrust there.
 
The feller is a smith/dealer.. he was manufacturing supressors for the things for various European military units, and the rifle was his demo piece.

DARNED nice rifle, to! Sick thing is, if'n it weren't for the derned NFA and all.. it'd prolly cost under 1K, from the looks of it!

I tell ya... in a hundred years, we could be royally screwed. Imagine being restricted to flintlocks today. If gun control had been en vogue in 1840, that coulda happened...

-K
 
I didn't know a Class 3 dealers could get post 86 NFA toys. I gotta get my Class 3 dealers license when I move to AZ in two years. :D
 
the next major change in US ARs will be a new upper running an operating rod like the G36

Uppers are not rifles so we civilians will be able to get it sans flashhider & bayonet lug on post 94 rifles

i hope

at some point the trend of the 5.7 ammo may cut us out of the loop
 
AS dz said, if we could update the AR with a short or long stroke gas piston, we'd be set for the next couple decades.

Dang, I'd sure like to fondle and shoot a G36...you lucky bastard.
 
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