Well sometimes the agricultural approach is all that's needed. If you want a more recent parallel, torqueing up of barrels on SA80 was always, "wazz it round till the expensive Torque wrench goes 'click', and if the barrel gas block isn't vertical then graunch it round until it is".
At Enfield an intermittent accuracy problem with the L1 was traced to just such an approach to fitting the flash eliminator if the right spacer ring was not fitted. Graunching it up was causing the flash eliminator to deform sufficient to deflect the bullet and a new alignment gauge was introduced to check for misalignment.
I well remember old Mr Bilborough in the Small Arms Wing at Bordon telling me that on my Basic course when I asked him what was the point of 21 different sized spacers for the bloody flash eliminator sir?
... and an abomination in the face of the NATO STANAG ammunition marking scheme Sir!
I'll dig it out over the weekend and post a pic
..because at the end of the day, all ammunition and components have to be dealt with, preferably safely. Having at least some idea of what a round of ammunition is likely to do could literally be the difference between life and death..
You're OK.. I've seen them!I'll dig it out over the weekend and post a pic
....that saved a trip in to the attic and pulling down all the model kits too
FFS don't point him to this thread, then:
I've also pointed out to him that there is not, nor has there ever been, a 300m grouping practice
I will take you at your word, and not refer to my trusty copy of Musketry RegulationsI've also pointed out to him that there is not, nor has there ever been, a 300m grouping practice
Designed by a bloke who used to work on Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons?Just waiting for the import paperwork to come through, but I may have acquired a 90's designed AR18-derived bullpup with a half-decent control layout
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Actually mostly the work of the same dude that did the Leader T2, and you can see a lot of the eye for production engineering in it, cos it's a drawn aluminium tube as a receiver. Bushmaster then modified the design to suit what they were already producing, so a lot of the bits are AR15, including the bolt head. But that see-through scope rail is as 90's as the music press narrative of rivalry between Blur and Oasis...
As a very minor nit-pick I think it's an extruded receiver rather than drawn. With extrusion you force aluminium through a die like toothpaste out of a tube, and you get a long tube or form which you can then cut to length as required. A lot of long complex bits of aluminium are formed this way. With drawing you take a sheet of aluminium and stretch it between two halves of a die into the shape that you want.
