04-06-2017, 03:25 AM
Considering issuing 7.62 NATO rifles to "all personnel in a Brigade Combat Teams and perhaps beyond" is a telltale indicator that we're dealing with amateur hour yet again.
Clearly whoever wrote that is nowhere even familiar with the MTOE, and needs to find another profession and go away.
There are several small battles in the past 15 years I can name where guys in Sniper sections went black or within a few rounds of black on ammo that had SR25s or SCAR-Hs even with short barrels.
There are others where the Platoon Sergeant in a regular Infantry unit was running ammo resupply from position to position from his own 5.56, and they came perilously close to being overrun by Taliban.
Imagine if they would have been short-changed with 7.62 NATO basic load + even. You'd have a lot more casualties on your hands, more draped coffins.
5.56 saves lives of dismounted infantry because it leaves you with a lot of room when things go wrong. Missed resupplies, chance contact en route to your primary mission, maneuverability, and the close-in fight are all sustained by 5.56, where they would be utter failures if you hung the 7.62 NATO albatross around Joe's neck.
Why are we debating this retarded idea again? It's like people refuse to understand that there are way more duty positions than Joe Tentpeg rifleman, first-term soldier, with maybe 400 rounds of trigger time under his belt tops. Most have never fired a rifle before they joined the military, and the ones that have bring baggage that takes even more time to re-train, and it isn't happening in a normal unit qualification schedule.
Now you really want to screw him over with a cartridge that recoils more, requires a heavier rifle, comes off target quickly, and prevents him from being able to carry a sustainable basic load that will get him through chance contacts, his mission, and back to the PZ or through the wire. What morons sit around and think this garbage up?
As to the .260 Rem., those who know don't talk.
Clearly whoever wrote that is nowhere even familiar with the MTOE, and needs to find another profession and go away.
There are several small battles in the past 15 years I can name where guys in Sniper sections went black or within a few rounds of black on ammo that had SR25s or SCAR-Hs even with short barrels.
There are others where the Platoon Sergeant in a regular Infantry unit was running ammo resupply from position to position from his own 5.56, and they came perilously close to being overrun by Taliban.
Imagine if they would have been short-changed with 7.62 NATO basic load + even. You'd have a lot more casualties on your hands, more draped coffins.
5.56 saves lives of dismounted infantry because it leaves you with a lot of room when things go wrong. Missed resupplies, chance contact en route to your primary mission, maneuverability, and the close-in fight are all sustained by 5.56, where they would be utter failures if you hung the 7.62 NATO albatross around Joe's neck.
Why are we debating this retarded idea again? It's like people refuse to understand that there are way more duty positions than Joe Tentpeg rifleman, first-term soldier, with maybe 400 rounds of trigger time under his belt tops. Most have never fired a rifle before they joined the military, and the ones that have bring baggage that takes even more time to re-train, and it isn't happening in a normal unit qualification schedule.
Now you really want to screw him over with a cartridge that recoils more, requires a heavier rifle, comes off target quickly, and prevents him from being able to carry a sustainable basic load that will get him through chance contacts, his mission, and back to the PZ or through the wire. What morons sit around and think this garbage up?
As to the .260 Rem., those who know don't talk.
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
www.AR15buildbox.com