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AR15/10 Rifles
AR-10 in the works!
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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 686655" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>Check out the second article on AR-10's in the link below:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2012/07/usamu-teams-set-1k-records-at-interservice-championships/" target="_blank">USAMU Teams Set 1K Records at Interservice Championships « Daily Bulletin</a></p><p></p><p>The US Army Marksmanship Unit was smart enough to figure out something to equal the accuracy and wind bucking abilities of the 7.62 NATO chambered Garands and M1A's that were out scoring the 22 caliber service rifle variants at 1000 yards. I've talked with one of the ex USN Rifle Team members who's won the service rifle long range matches at the Nationals and he said all sorts of folks wanted to know how in the heck his old M1 did better than the mouse guns. He said it was more the cartridge than the rifle. As the US Army no longer had any M14NM's in stock to shoot the 7.62 round, convincing the NRA to allow AR10's in competition as a service rifle was they only way they could do well. </p><p></p><p>Too bad service rifles have to use post front sights and a 4.5 pound trigger pull; biggest reason the service rifle scores were not as high as the scope-sighted, few-ounce-trigger bolt gun scores. But it's a feather in Remington's hat their 7mm SAUM cartridge did so well.</p><p></p><p>What load will be used in your AR10's 20-inch barrels to keep bullets supersonic past 1000 yards in the thick air at Perry during the Nationals? The USAMU used Berger 185's in their AR10's but I've no idea what was used to push it out. 'Twas probably a stiff load close to or at blue pill pressures; the USAMU's been doing that with the 7.62 since the 1960's but so did the USN, USMC and USAF teams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 686655, member: 5302"] Check out the second article on AR-10's in the link below: [url=http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2012/07/usamu-teams-set-1k-records-at-interservice-championships/]USAMU Teams Set 1K Records at Interservice Championships « Daily Bulletin[/url] The US Army Marksmanship Unit was smart enough to figure out something to equal the accuracy and wind bucking abilities of the 7.62 NATO chambered Garands and M1A's that were out scoring the 22 caliber service rifle variants at 1000 yards. I've talked with one of the ex USN Rifle Team members who's won the service rifle long range matches at the Nationals and he said all sorts of folks wanted to know how in the heck his old M1 did better than the mouse guns. He said it was more the cartridge than the rifle. As the US Army no longer had any M14NM's in stock to shoot the 7.62 round, convincing the NRA to allow AR10's in competition as a service rifle was they only way they could do well. Too bad service rifles have to use post front sights and a 4.5 pound trigger pull; biggest reason the service rifle scores were not as high as the scope-sighted, few-ounce-trigger bolt gun scores. But it's a feather in Remington's hat their 7mm SAUM cartridge did so well. What load will be used in your AR10's 20-inch barrels to keep bullets supersonic past 1000 yards in the thick air at Perry during the Nationals? The USAMU used Berger 185's in their AR10's but I've no idea what was used to push it out. 'Twas probably a stiff load close to or at blue pill pressures; the USAMU's been doing that with the 7.62 since the 1960's but so did the USN, USMC and USAF teams. [/QUOTE]
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