A bullpup design makes this impossible without having rounds ejected DIRECTLY into your face. In order to use this gun, if you are going around a right hand corner, the gun must stay mounted on your right shoulder. This exposes most of your body to enemy fire. If this post is true, I feel bad for the troops who have to use this gun.
Nah. For all the grief the Brits have had about the problems they've had with their SA80/L85A1 bullpup rifle, that's not been much of one, though clearly, a weapon that dumps its brass downwards of forward is preferable. But in MOUT operations in Northern Ireland, and previously in Hong Kong and elsewhere by the British Gurkha Regiment, the procedure was simply to raise the weapon to the leftside shoulder, rotate the pistol grip 90º to the left, hiorizontal, and use the optical telescopic sight with the left eye, a procedure similar to that used when firing with a gas mask in place. Precision accuracy id degraded, but not entirely absent.
Anyway, it clearly works from the Gurkhas, who've been noticibly silent about any feelings they've had about SA80 shortcomings. In my own dealings with them, they've always seemed to have more pressing concerns worth their real concern.
Ayo Ghorkhali!
