Posted on 04/30/2016 10:26:18 AM PDT by rktman
The mid-late 1950s… Could there be a more optimistic time in United States history? I feel there’s no better rifle to illustrate the industry, innovation, and unbridled optimism of that time than the Armalite AR-10 7.62x51mm select-fire military rifle. Made of aerospace materials, using an advanced operating mechanism, and weighing in at an inadvisably light 7 pounds and change, unloaded, the AR-10 was an exercise in logic of the type best said “we have defeated Germany and Japan, and split the atom, why shouldn’t we do this?”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefirearmblog.com ...
From the article: “Ultimately, the Armalite belt-fed AR-10s did not work well in sustained fire...”
I see that a company is making 9mm belt fed uppers for AR/M16 type weapons.Why I have no idea.
Well, until the Dutch beefed it up a little further in the article.
You can tell just by looking at it that it will overheat. Bullets are bigger than the rifle!
Eugene Stoner: Master Design Engineer Of The AR Series
A Brilliant Man
OMG! Like the old line that .50 cals are as big as ketchup bottles? LOL! Yeah, the display model in the leading photo does look a little on the puny side for sustained fire.
Well, there was the late 1810s, and the 1880s...it's part of the historical four-generation pattern. If it continues, our next time of optimism will begin sometime in the 2020s, but we will have to get through the present difficulties to get there.
“the fourth turning”...a fascinating concept imho
Wonder why they moved the charger from the sight-grip to the rear? Concerned it might catch on branches?
Would do anything to be transported back to the 1950’s. I feel sorry for those Americans who did not experience those days. Even duty in Alaska was not bad — lots of good chow and easy duty.
I was too young to know it well, born in '54. My dad used to go to Adak on TDY (GS11 with the Navy, electronics), said it was dreary but OK.
For those of us ancient enough to miss Good Ol’ Ike.
I qualify. I shook his hand as a five year old.
I never met him, but we do have one thing in common - we’re both getting up there.
As long as your getting ‘older’ and not getting ‘old’, it’s all good. Well for the most part anyway. :>)
I have never been a firearms 'collector'. Whatever I bought or owned got used.
But relatively recently a friend introduced me to his passion for old Smith & Wesson revolvers.
I realized that I had to own the three main models of the early Model 29 .44 Mag, just because of the look, feel, incredible design and construction...I have a couple that aren't mint, aren't 'collectibles' in that they have been and will be used.
But my early three 29s are mint or near-mint, and they just shout strength, confidence and expertise. I own them just to be able to remind myself what once was.
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