New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

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Hopefully one of these techniques will work, but if not, I have thought of another somewhat Rube Goldbergesque approach that probably would....

Hmm... D'ya really think Ruby Gold the burlesque stripper would have an approach that'd help? (Yeah, I know. It seemed funnier when the thought first struck me.)

If you had a charging handle with some form of "eyelet" installed in the rear, you could use a release like is used on a compound bow to charge the weapon.

With the bow release attached to your chest, you would:

1.) clip onto the charging handle

2.) (while facing downrange) snag the carbine on a surface such as a shooting bench or verticle pole/surface and lean back. Your body weight would pull the charging handle rearward with little effort on you part.

3.) activate the bow release to let the charging handle fly forward.

Yikes! And me fly backward! Just kidding. Well, actually only half kidding. Did I mention that the MS has done bad things to my balance? :o

It would probably be preferrable to find something that didn't require a bow release to be attached to your chest to charge your weapon, but if all else failed...

Yeah, let's put that in the "options of last resort" file.