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"What reason do you have to carry a weapon?"

I just won a bet that we'd end up just adopting an ultra high pressure 5.56.

You want a bullpup so you can have a short carbine for CQB and vehicle ops.

I'm a shotgun guy.

Tbh- we won't see any HICAR ammo on the civvie market for a minute. But the URGI is just a normal cold hammer forged chrome lined AR barrel and a normal high end bolt.

My concern wasn't even with the civvy market. The military is so dogshit about maintaining their guns. They're not going to retrofit all their guns to accommodate the new ammo and they're definitely not going to maintain all their guns. Just look at the M9. Replacing the springs every 5 rounds was too much to ask. You just need a screwdriver to get the grips off and a punch to remove one pin for the hammer spring. The recoil spring doesn't need any tools at all. That's just too much to ask. Then according to Inky the M4s are in shit shape too. They'll have a grunt spend hours removing every trace of carbon from the gun to get it as pristine as humanly possible then not have the armorer fix broken parts lol.

At 82k PSI we're well into barrel burner territory, it exceeds the legendary barrel burner .243 SRC by over 10kpsi, .223 WSSM by even more. I'm betting catastrophic throat erosion after 5-8k rounds unless they have a stellite chamber insert like the 1919A4 or M60.

Have you seen the recent announcement by Proof and their new PXT barrels?

Yeah- Stellite.

What I've imagined is having the lands (but not the rest of the barrel) be made of tungsten carbide. OFC I don't know how viable that is.

Strangely enough such things do exist.

So- the "ideal" no expense barred ultra high life HPHV barrel:

The only thing that would be an actual serious cost addition is the stellite chamber insert. Improved barrel steel isn't that much more expensive, the only thing you need to make an exponential / game twist barrel is a new rifling mandrel for your cold Hammer forging machine, and duplex Chrome just requires nitriding prior to chrome plating.

Should have used the url “thegingeneer”

I just won a bet that we'd end up just adopting an ultra high pressure 5.56.

You want a bullpup so you can have a short carbine for CQB and vehicle ops.

I'm a shotgun guy.

Tbh- we won't see any HICAR ammo on the civvie market for a minute. But the URGI is just a normal cold hammer forged chrome lined AR barrel and a normal high end bolt.

My concern wasn't even with the civvy market. The military is so dogshit about maintaining their guns. They're not going to retrofit all their guns to accommodate the new ammo and they're definitely not going to maintain all their guns. Just look at the M9. Replacing the springs every 5 rounds was too much to ask. You just need a screwdriver to get the grips off and a punch to remove one pin for the hammer spring. The recoil spring doesn't need any tools at all. That's just too much to ask. Then according to Inky the M4s are in shit shape too. They'll have a grunt spend hours removing every trace of carbon from the gun to get it as pristine as humanly possible then not have the armorer fix broken parts lol.

At 82k PSI we're well into barrel burner territory, it exceeds the legendary barrel burner .243 SRC by over 10kpsi, .223 WSSM by even more. I'm betting catastrophic throat erosion after 5-8k rounds unless they have a stellite chamber insert like the 1919A4 or M60.

Have you seen the recent announcement by Proof and their new PXT barrels?

Yeah- Stellite.

What I've imagined is having the lands (but not the rest of the barrel) be made of tungsten carbide. OFC I don't know how viable that is.

Strangely enough such things do exist.

So- the "ideal" no expense barred ultra high life HPHV barrel:

What I love about this is seeing that he's clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that's why they've got knives on their feet, so it's running time. Run run run run.

He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.

This is the polar opposite of this:

Tomorrow I’ll be 37 weeks pregnant, which is the exact gestational age both my other girls were born at, and I have nothing at all prepared. No hospital bag, no newborn diapers, I have no clue where the newborn clothes are 😂 hell, my car can’t even fit 3 car seats, so I’m going to have to convert one of my toddlers’ convertible ones into the newborn setting and just accept that none of us will be able to go anywhere as a family for a while

Just get the 12-15 passenger van.

I just won a bet that we'd end up just adopting an ultra high pressure 5.56.

You want a bullpup so you can have a short carbine for CQB and vehicle ops.

I'm a shotgun guy.

Tbh- we won't see any HICAR ammo on the civvie market for a minute. But the URGI is just a normal cold hammer forged chrome lined AR barrel and a normal high end bolt.

My concern wasn't even with the civvy market. The military is so dogshit about maintaining their guns. They're not going to retrofit all their guns to accommodate the new ammo and they're definitely not going to maintain all their guns. Just look at the M9. Replacing the springs every 5 rounds was too much to ask. You just need a screwdriver to get the grips off and a punch to remove one pin for the hammer spring. The recoil spring doesn't need any tools at all. That's just too much to ask. Then according to Inky the M4s are in shit shape too. They'll have a grunt spend hours removing every trace of carbon from the gun to get it as pristine as humanly possible then not have the armorer fix broken parts lol.

At 82k PSI we're well into barrel burner territory, it exceeds the legendary barrel burner .243 SRC by over 10kpsi, .223 WSSM by even more. I'm betting catastrophic throat erosion after 5-8k rounds unless they have a stellite chamber insert like the 1919A4 or M60.

Have you seen the recent announcement by Proof and their new PXT barrels?

Yeah- Stellite.

What I've imagined is having the lands (but not the rest of the barrel) be made of tungsten carbide. OFC I don't know how viable that is.

Strangely enough such things do exist.

I just won a bet that we'd end up just adopting an ultra high pressure 5.56.

You want a bullpup so you can have a short carbine for CQB and vehicle ops.

I'm a shotgun guy.

Tbh- we won't see any HICAR ammo on the civvie market for a minute. But the URGI is just a normal cold hammer forged chrome lined AR barrel and a normal high end bolt.

My concern wasn't even with the civvy market. The military is so dogshit about maintaining their guns. They're not going to retrofit all their guns to accommodate the new ammo and they're definitely not going to maintain all their guns. Just look at the M9. Replacing the springs every 5 rounds was too much to ask. You just need a screwdriver to get the grips off and a punch to remove one pin for the hammer spring. The recoil spring doesn't need any tools at all. That's just too much to ask. Then according to Inky the M4s are in shit shape too. They'll have a grunt spend hours removing every trace of carbon from the gun to get it as pristine as humanly possible then not have the armorer fix broken parts lol.

At 82k PSI we're well into barrel burner territory, it exceeds the legendary barrel burner .243 SRC by over 10kpsi, .223 WSSM by even more. I'm betting catastrophic throat erosion after 5-8k rounds unless they have a stellite chamber insert like the 1919A4 or M60.

Have you seen the recent announcement by Proof and their new PXT barrels?

Yeah- Stellite.

What I've imagined is having the lands (but not the rest of the barrel) be made of tungsten carbide. OFC I don't know how viable that is.

Everyone: "the biggest issue with shotguns is it's hard to carry a decent amount of ammo."