01-16-2020, 02:46 PM
Sticks Wrote:Sig released a video stating the 6.5 and .308 calibers, and a 24" barrel coming.
I am still waiting on someone to mention barrel life. The market is hunters, so the barrel will last long enough for the hunter to buy the latest and greatest.
Target shooters may get a little irked that they have to chase the lands after every couple hundred rounds, then start over after the 800 round mark with load development.
Match/Gamers are kind of out on the HP market as just about every match has a speed limit set between 3000 and 3200 fps, and a lot of 6.5cm guys are hand loading ammo to get 2900+ already...unless it is all to get a light rifle on the shooting line.
This is where I'm at on this.
Love the tech behind it. But it's a bet too much new and proprietary for it to be a wide spread hit in the civilian market place I'm thinking.
Now let's look at it this way. We all know 6.5 grendel is the most bang you can get in a ar15 right. The military owns,trains on m4,m16 platform rifles right.
So instead of making a new ar10 sized weapon platform and the resulting ammo for it.
Why not take this same case tech and new metal tech they are useing in the barrels and drop it in the ar15?
Same weapon system, same ergonomic's but you add all the advancements and still end up with a lighter more compact weapon system then the Sig.
I wouldn't run it at 80,000 psi say maybe 70 thousands psi.
We all know the military isn't the smartest when it comes to spending money. But this sig277 weapon package seems like a step back too the m14 1950 and 60's thinking in weapon tech.
Bigger faster got to be more gooder right?
I think it's a great step forward in tech but a huge step back in weapon tech.