tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post8160090575385290430..comments2024-03-28T00:43:37.279-05:00Comments on Future War Stories: FWS:Armory: The CarbineWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218428427067689631noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-20543832764634940052018-05-24T00:38:21.894-05:002018-05-24T00:38:21.894-05:00A few notable inaccuracies here. Firstly, you stat...A few notable inaccuracies here. Firstly, you state that purportedly, accuracy is tied heavily tied into to the barrel length, and as such, accuracy decreases with barrel length. This is mostly false, or, rather, the way it's stated here is misleading. While accuracy does decrease somewhat with barrel length, the effect is very slight. The primary disadvantage of shortening the barrel is decreased bullet velocity, which, by extension, as decreases effective range. This is especially noteworthy with small, high-velocity calibers like 5.56 and 5.45 because they have much more violent terminal ballistics above certain velocities, so with a shorter barrel the range at which you get the optimal effectiveness out of the round is much further in than with a longer barrel. Bullet drop also becomes a greater issue with the decrease in velocity, so you have to use a greater degree of holdover when shooting at a distance, making landing shots at longer ranges more complicated and difficult. Secondly, I assume when you say "Weaver-madness" you mean "Picatinny madness", because Weaver rails are fairly rare nowadays, with the MIL-STD-1913 or Picatinny rail having crushed the Weaver rail in popularity thanks to its greater consistency (and now, because of the Picatinny system's weight, we're seeing it get abandoned outside of optics mounting in favor of systems like M-LOK and KeyMod). Third, some of the weapons mentioned here are not actually carbines, like the folding stock Kalashnikovs, the F2000, the Tavor, or the Stoner 63. All of those weapons are considered to be full-length rifles (or in the Stoner's case, weird rifle/machine gun hybrid thingamajig).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-46619500411004400602018-03-04T23:12:06.827-06:002018-03-04T23:12:06.827-06:00This is one of the "stories" of the M1/M...This is one of the "stories" of the M1/M2 Carbine's .30 round that I've heard and read for years and I was simply repeating it. Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17218428427067689631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-40497126025098640382018-03-03T12:19:28.141-06:002018-03-03T12:19:28.141-06:00Dude, twice you said that the .30 Carbine round di...Dude, twice you said that the .30 Carbine round didn't penetrate Chinese uniforms during the Korean War, frozen or not, this is 100% false. Do some research on ballistics and you'll see that if a .30 Carbine round didn't penetrate then you didn't hit the target, even better would be for you to freeze some clothes and shoot them yourself. It has about as much energy at 100yds as a .357mag does at the muzzle. I believe this came from guys in Korea shooting their M2 Carbines on fast forward and not hitting anything except air, then blaming the round and the enemy's uniform for them not dying. Notice there were none of these complaints from WWII when the semi auto M1 Carbines were in use, and there were plenty of thick wool frozen uniforms then too, thats because guys were actually hitting their targets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com