Thoughts on New 277 SIG Fury?

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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.

Concur. Unless it gets adopted by the Army, and then it will sell like the proverbial hotcakes on the civilian market.

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.

Depends upon what you mean by the "most bang" you can get. The 6.8 SPC gives significantly faster muzzle velocity.

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.

6.5 Grendel @ 70,000 PSI in an AR15??? :eek:

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.

In some ways -- like magazine capacity, gun/ammo size and weight -- it is a big step backwards.

However, since the Army wants riflemen and machine gunners to be able to defeat modern body armor at range, "bigger faster" is needed.

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My thinking, as well. But only IF there are no issues with barrel life or the cost of specialty barrels and with increased magnum-level muzzle blast from 16" barrels. Can you imagine a lot of guys firing what amount to proof loads within buildings? Don't know if this is a military consideration, or not, whether guys are going deaf with every firefight.

Apparently the military has considered it. Note the suppressor.