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I wanna go home |
I have become addicted to bullpups and will get one when the feeding frenzy ends. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
In the below video, starting at around 0:50, you can see footage of Iraqi police forces utilizing the VHS-2's next-gen "Inshallah" indirect fire feature. This nifty firing mode doesn't actually require you to aim at your target. Instead, you can just point the muzzle in the general direction of your target and pull the trigger, resulting in effective hits (if God wills it). Hopefully, Springfield hasn't neutered this handy firing mode from the US civilian models. | |||
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How come Rob Leatham is not demonstrating. Does it have a Grip Zone? | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Nope. For this gun they outsourced grip production to BCM, and the grip designer at BCM isn't an idiot like the one at SAI.  (Seriously, though... The Hellion uses a BCM Gunfighter Mod 3 grip, just like their Springfield Saint ARs do.) | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
I don't like most bullpups. I think the Tavor has been one of the few exceptions. I think I like this one. Not likely buying one, though. No budget for a $2k rifle. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Spread the Disease |
I'd have to say I was skeptical until I saw the Forgotten Weapons video. That is a very cool design, even though it fails in the aesthetic category. Swappable magwell, the ease of converting from left to right ejection, the takedown, the layout of controls. Very cool. Because of how easily parts come off, I'm seeing the potential for a lot of aftermarket modifications and replacement parts. An upper that didn't look like a FAMAS abortion would be nice. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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That style of upper is intended to provide protection for the top-mounted ambidextrous charging handle, while still allowing easy access. Other guns with top-mounted charging handles, like the original AR10, the FAMAS, the Type 95, and the G36, all have similar upper designs.     | |||
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I don't understand the "protected" cocking handle. We don't put big railings on the sides of our AKs, to protect the cocking handles. How does a handle on the top have any greater chance of being a problem than one on the side? I think it might have more to do with an optic mounting option, than cocking handle protection. | |||
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I’ve wanted a bullpup rifle but I shoot long guns left-handed because I am left eye dominant and this has limited my options to a few specific models but this may be the ticket. Also, it looks like something out of Star Wars so I want it. Laughing in the face of danger is all well and good until danger laughs back. | |||
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Slap a “be kind/rewind” sticker on the stock and you’re all set. -Jeff | |||
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| Spread the Disease |
I understand the purpose; I just don't see the point. The design has so many other easily ambidextrous or reversible features, so why not make the charging handle on the side and easily swapped to the other side? It seems like they could have gotten the top rail closer to the bore axis that way. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Holy crap. People are bidding in excess of $3000 for these things. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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looks good to me if it passes the 'poorly trained user' reliability test of 3rd world craphole nations -- it's probably pretty stout -------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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| Freethinker |
► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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What I found humorous about your guy (unlike some later in the video) was that he wasn’t even gaining any protection from shooting it that way. He was still just as exposed as if he’d been aiming and shooting, and maybe less. I wonder if he was so accustomed to shooting that way that he didn’t even think about cover. ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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I want one! Can't buy one at the moment. But I really want one. Looks like an awesome Bullpen. Remember, this is all supposed to be for fun................... | |||
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Or, an awesome Balrog. ____________________ | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Interesting. But not at the MSRP in my opinion. I'll still take my AUG if I need to trip the light fantastic with a bullpup. | |||
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