Guns and Ammo Thread

[Cuz]

That's actually a decent price for what you're getting, providing it functions as described.

Its a good price, agreed considering. I looked at that price gouging site, im sure you know which one , CTD...223 plus tax and shipping there.

[almostgone]

Its a good price, agreed considering. I looked at that price gouging site, im sure you know which one , CTD...223 plus tax and shipping there.

I agree they are really stretching law of supply and demand economics.

Post up here the muzzle brake works out for you.


You may have seen this, bit it's a fun little video.

[almostgone]

..or two.

[Beetlegeuse]

..or two.

Did you notice that in the second video (about 14 minutes), Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov shows up ... twice? And dressed differently, so it probably was at different events.

Barrett is not a not a particularly tall man (~5'10" I think) but he towers over Kalashnikov. So I looked it up and found one source stating he was ~5'3" or 4".

Barrett mentions that only four people in the last century have designed a weapon (designed entirely by one individual) that was adopted by the US military, JMB (all face Ogden and genuflect), Garand, Stoner and himself. But he's being modest. There was only one person who designed it, prototyped it, marketed it to the government, and then he (or a company he owned) mass produced the version the government had bought. That was Ronnie Barrett.

All the others on that list already had extensive backgrounds in firearms design or working with the defense industrial complex or both. Barrett had neither.

And Barrett (the company) did it twice, first with the Mk82 and then with the MRAD. Except the second time it was Chris Barrett who designed it, built the prototype, marketed it to the gummint, and it was Dad's company that mass-produced it. Chris designed the MRAD for a SOCOM competition, which it didn't win. Then SOCOM decided that the rifle that did win (The Remington MSR) wasn't all that and a bag of clips so they bought the MRAD instead. And the Army and the Corps also bought them.