Can an AR-15 shoot 400 rounds per minute?

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Can an AR-15 shoot 400 rounds per minute?

Posted: 5/21/2005 4:17:25 PM EDT

The AR-15 can shoot more than 400 rounds per minute. ...

Posted: 5/21/2005 4:25:52 PM EDT

[#1]

Depends on how fast your finger is...

Posted: 5/21/2005 4:26:38 PM EDT

[#2]

Is this a question or a statement or what?

Posted: 5/21/2005 4:32:40 PM EDT

[#3]

If a tree falls in the forest and there's noone to hear it, did it really fall?

Which came first: chicken or egg?

Which empties faster: M16 with four betas, or a 400 round belt bump-fired shrike?

Sam

Posted: 5/21/2005 4:32:49 PM EDT

[#4]

Question on a statement.

Posted: 5/21/2005 4:35:25 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
If a tree falls in the forest and there's noone to hear it, did it really fall?

Which came first: chicken or egg?

Which empties faster: M16 with four betas, or a 400 round belt bump-fired shrike?

Sam

Does a bear wear a funny hat?

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Posted: 5/21/2005 4:37:44 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Quoted:
If a tree falls in the forest and there's noone to hear it, did it really fall?

Which came first: chicken or egg?

Which empties faster: M16 with four betas, or a 400 round belt bump-fired shrike?

Sam

Does a bear wear a funny hat?

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Ok, ok. So, if a man says something and there's no woman to hear him, is he still wrong???

Sam

Posted: 5/21/2005 5:28:33 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
If a tree falls in the forest and there's noone to hear it, did it really fall?

Which came first: chicken or egg?

Which empties faster: M16 with four betas, or a 400 round belt bump-fired shrike?

Sam

Does a bear wear a funny hat?

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Ok, ok. So, if a man says something and there's no woman to hear him, is he still wrong???

Sam

did the scarecrow REALLY need a brain?....yeah i got nothin...

Posted: 5/21/2005 5:34:55 PM EDT

[#8]

Well, a RATE of fire of 400 rounds per minute is only 6.7 rounds/second, which is very easy to achieve. Accuracy, however, will go to hell, but it's not that hard. I can shoot 6 rounds/second with my 1911 and keep the shots in the "A" zone of an IPSC target at 7 yds. The AR should not be that bad. This is assuming "normal" shooting, not bumpfiring.

Posted: 5/21/2005 6:39:14 PM EDT

[#9]

Dump a 30rd mag and have someone time you. It takes me between 7-8 seconds to dump 30 rounds down range so in a minute I could dump 225-257 rounds in one minute provided my trigger finger doesn't get tired.

Posted: 5/21/2005 6:40:47 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
The AR-15 can shoot more than 400 rounds per minute. ...

You need to be more specific. The AR can be made to fire at a rate that would translate to 400/minute. Actually being able to fire 400 rounds in a single minute would require Beta Mags to reduce the number of reloads needed and would require the shooter to have both speed and stamina in their trigger finger.

Posted: 5/21/2005 6:53:54 PM EDT

[#11]

It was a phrase in the Savannah, GA paper.

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