cwhardee13
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are all the r5 remington rifles milspec? or is there a variant that is not? if so can someone explain the difference?
What dies milspec mean? It means that it conforms to a set of military specifications whch pertain to that particular device. To me milspec means acceptably rugged and acceptably accurate consistent with securing low bid contracts.
Many barrel manufactures do not follow military specifications choosing to rely on their reputations among competitive shooters instead. I don't know where Remington gets it's R5 barrels. If I was buying one I'd want to know if it's cut, buttoned, or hammer forged and what barrel maker produced it.
Does anyone here know what reputation Remington's M40 rifles have for accuracy? I'd expect it to be "acceptable".
I read on one of the forums that Remington won the military contract recently based on accuracy against other highly respected barrel makers.
If the guy did not have a bore scope it could just have been getting fouled. Mil-Spec is just that and it controls processes not an individual platform in general such as an aircraft or anything that the USG may procure. There are many parts contained in the aircraft for example that are COTS. The military even on the most sophisticated weapons systems that exist are moving more and more to COTS. This does not mean that the platform does not contain individual parts specifications which will of course require "qualification testing" and configuration control to ensure compliance to those specification which include lifecycle for example. You mentioned Jerry Stiller and he has a background in this due to his "other" employer.
For example the old specification that a "Facility" had to be qualified to in order to manufacturer certain parts was MIL-I-45208A which has been replaces with commercial standards.
Hope this clears up any questions.
The correct term for that is "IR" Interchangeable Replaceable have been in Military Aerospace for over 25 years and am intimate with this. Deal with the USG customer all of the time working mostly Deviation or other contractual matters on aircraft being delivered (was in the Procurement/Subcontract Management for 24 years)
The Program you mentioned is one that we support still but that thing is 50 years old and things have changed since Kelly was running that place 30 years ago. How long have you been retired---must have been a while because the game has changed quite a bit...