Posted: 12/16/2003 1:06:13 PM EDT
| I went home for lunch like I usually do. I watch the History Channel more times than not. Today at 1pm, PST, the subject was bullets. As they're going through their script, a gun came up which I didn't recognize. At first, I thought it was a SAW, but as they did a close up, I realized the lower was an M-16 and the upper was belt fed. Did anyone see this episode? And what kind of weapon was that? |
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Quoted: At first, I thought it was a SAW, but as they did a close up, I realized the lower was an M-16 and the upper was belt fed. Did anyone see this episode? And what kind of weapon was that? Ares Defense Shrike, I think, from reading other threads since the show has been on before. Damn, I watched the channel this morning, but turned it off to study right after "Million Dollar Guns". Guess the whole day was gun related. Would've liked to have seen the Shrike. edit: Damn! Beaten again! |
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Quoted: Quoted: That's the Shrike upper. Belt-fed semiauto. The person was shooting in full auto. It's all based on the lower. Have a semi lower, it shoot semi. Burst lower shoots burst, full auto shoots full. The belt fed part is just an upper, so you can stick it on a semi auto. They're even making a post-ban version. |
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Quoted: Quoted: At first, I thought it was a SAW, but as they did a close up, I realized the lower was an M-16 and the upper was belt fed. Did anyone see this episode? And what kind of weapon was that? Ares Defense Shrike, I think, from reading other threads since the show has been on before. Damn, I watched the channel this morning, but turned it off to study right after "Million Dollar Guns". Guess the whole day was gun related. Would've liked to have seen the Shrike. edit: Damn! Beaten again! ARES Defense Shrike, huh? Anyone got a link? Is it being sold to civilians? |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: That's the Shrike upper. Belt-fed semiauto. The person was shooting in full auto. It's all based on the lower. Have a semi lower, it shoot semi. Burst lower shoots burst, full auto shoots full. The belt fed part is just an upper, so you can stick it on a semi auto. They're even making a post-ban version. But there are [i]separate[/] uppers for auto and semi. |
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No doubt it was belt fed....I paid VERY close attention to what was being ejected. Not only were the spent casings...but unmistakably, so were the links. Was cool to see an older A1 w/o shell deflector fire full auto in slow-motion. Close up of the ejection port. |
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Did anynody see the Marines reloading ammo? The one guy was priming cases. He primed a case, turned it up to look and it had a spent primer. Then it showed a guy seating bullets and casing them up for a particular weapon. The rounds had no primers. I'm suprised it didn't have a "don't try this at home" message before that segment. |
| I also noticed the spent primer being re-seated into the brass and the unprimed brass being capped with bullets. I wonder if they were just "going through the motions" for the camera team. I had to go hold my m21 after the show was over. I wonder if Mcnemera would ever beleive the M14 to have a resurgence in use 50 years after he condemmed it. |