09-08-2011, 03:52 AM
Ok, I'm a little confused. Take a loose tolerance machine gun and shoot Grendel ammo as just a proof of concept? Is that the idea?
I'll predict that you'll make it work, at least part of the time, and maybe you'll get lucky and it will run great, but to what end? No one is going to put that machine gun back into production because the cartridge works, and from I understand, most of those machine guns have been and are worn out.
If all you are proving is that you can make the Grendel work from links, well, I have no doubt it can be done. Lots of other cartridges work, there is no reason to believe that it won't, simply because it hasn't been done.
I wonder about making it work consistently not so much because of the links, but because the gas system will be far from ideal for the Grendel, the reciprocating mass is not optimized for the cartridge, etc.
We all have pet hobbies and desires though, so I wish you well!
I'll predict that you'll make it work, at least part of the time, and maybe you'll get lucky and it will run great, but to what end? No one is going to put that machine gun back into production because the cartridge works, and from I understand, most of those machine guns have been and are worn out.
If all you are proving is that you can make the Grendel work from links, well, I have no doubt it can be done. Lots of other cartridges work, there is no reason to believe that it won't, simply because it hasn't been done.
I wonder about making it work consistently not so much because of the links, but because the gas system will be far from ideal for the Grendel, the reciprocating mass is not optimized for the cartridge, etc.
We all have pet hobbies and desires though, so I wish you well!
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt